{"id":12549,"date":"2020-02-25T19:38:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12549"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:58:50","slug":"lady-mechanika-volume-1-mystery-of-the-mechanical-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12549","title":{"rendered":"Lady Mechanika Volume 1: <em>Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Mechanika Volume 1: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VlNnUd\">Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse<\/a><\/em> (2015) Joe Benitez, Peter Steigerwald<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VlNnUd\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lady-Mechanika-Volume-1.jpg?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lady Mechanika Volume 1\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lady-Mechanika-Volume-1.jpg?w=547&amp;ssl=1 547w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lady-Mechanika-Volume-1.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>Lady Mechanika has spent a great deal of time trying to discover where she came from&#8211;who replaced her arms and legs with mechanical appendages&#8211;and why?<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every time she things she&#8217;s found a clue as to her past, the person (or creature) with whom she may have a link turns up dead, but when a mechanical corpse appears in town, she hopes the body may give her come clues as to her history.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lady-Mechanicka-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lady-Mechanicka-1.jpg?resize=666%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lady Mechanika\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" align=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is dark and violent and has lots of unreasonable clothes, but I still very much enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Benitez Productions<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7.5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Mechanika Volume 1: Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse (2015) Joe Benitez, Peter Steigerwald Lady Mechanika has spent a great deal of time trying to discover where she came from&#8211;who replaced her arms and legs with mechanical appendages&#8211;and why? Every time she things she&#8217;s found a clue as to her past, the person (or creature) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,48,9,291,28],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-12549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-female","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","category-steam-punk","tag-lady-mechanika"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3gp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27283,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27283","url_meta":{"origin":12549,"position":0},"title":"Lady Mechanika Vol 9: The Mechanical Menagerie","author":"Michelle","date":"July 18, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Lady Mechanika: The Mechanical Menagerie (2026) Joe Benitez, Martin Montiel, Madeline Holly-Rosing (Lady Mechanika Vol 9) Apparently, Image Comics is rereleasing some of the older volumes of Lady Mechanika, which is how I ended up with a second copy of Sangre. 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So she lives as best she can, often\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lady Mechanika Vol 2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lady-Mechanika-Vol-2-666x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12715,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12715","url_meta":{"origin":12549,"position":2},"title":"Lady Mechanika Vol 03: The Lost Boys of West Abbey","author":"Michelle","date":"April 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Lady Mechanika Vol 03: The Lost Boys of West Abbey (2017) Marcia Chen, Joe Benitez, Peter Steigerwald, Marcia Chen When she learns of the murders of young orphan boys in a strange warehouse found mechanical toys, Lady Mechanika decides to investigate, in case this is related to her own (forgotten\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;7.5\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lady Mechanicka: The Lost Boys of West Abbey","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Lost-Boys-of-West-Abbey.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13785,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13785","url_meta":{"origin":12549,"position":3},"title":"Lady Mechanika Volume 6: Sangre","author":"Michelle","date":"January 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Lady Mechanika Volume 6: Sangre (2020) by Joe Benitez, M.M. 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Weirdly, I remembered the historical Mesoamerican parts rather than the current timeline. Publisher: Image Comics Rating: 8\/10","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lady Mechanika Vol 6","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Lady-Mechanika-Vol-6-195x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13333,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13333","url_meta":{"origin":12549,"position":5},"title":"Lady Mechanika: La Dama de la Muerte","author":"Michelle","date":"August 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Lady Mechanika: La Dama de la Muerte (2017) Joe Benitez, M. M. Chen, Peter Steigerwald, Beth Sotelo Set in Mexico in 1869 This is set outside of the regular series, and was published the same year as the third volume, The Lost Boys of West Abbey. 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