Written by Federica Manfredi, this comic is about life of a group of normal students in Rome, a rather varied group. The protagonist is Fabio Magenta, a very expansive young man, who plays guitar and is the leader of a forming band, called Motoperpetuo. At the same time, the story of a not-so-normal young woman, inside a research lab. When will their paths come across, we cannot figure yet.

Art: improvable, but already good. What especially does not fully convince me is character design for some of the minor characters (they look to me older than they should be), though I appreciate the effort to characterize them well both in art and concept (it's still too early to express final judgement about this yet). In issue #1 screentones used are too big-sized, so that the art is a bit ruined; but with issue #2, they are much better, and we get an explanation (sometimes poor print quality damages screentones); luckily that wasn't the case. Backgrounds are good and never too heavy; sometimes though some movement effect doesn't seem quite appropriate.

The script flows, at a quite lively pace. Panel lay-out is always easy to read. Text flow is good and well distributed among balloons, never excessive (quite common a flaw of beginning artists here in Italy). Federica anyway does show experience, though Magenta is her first work I've ever seen.

Two words about edition: issues are small and rather expensive, ok. But orderd received by the publishing house are really non-existent, which is not unheard from this minor publishers, yet they are the only ones, right now, to risk and publish Italian beginner artists with their own projects. Now, Magenta is not a masterpiece of art, but it is indeed worth mentioning; and most of all, what is worth supporting is this kind of policy, and it's more than a bit sad when you see this wall of disinterest the publisher openly complains about in issue #2, which, had it had a decent amount of orders, would have come out for sale a year ago. That's about all of it: read this kind of comics, suport them right because they are expensive and short, because the reason of those prices and to-find difficulty is strongly tied to your laziness as readers, and to your shop retailers laziness.

In issue #0 we see the Motoperpetuo band starting out, and we meet with the band's main characters: of course the protagonist Fabio, who also does part-time jobs to gain a little money, so we see him coping with an horde of children at a birthday's party, an interview to become a DJ, singing in a bar and two roomates it is hard to tell which one is crazier... :)
In issue #1, we meet the esper young woman, whose story makes a sort of framework of Fabio and friends's story (so it is in issue #2 too). About her we only know she has many twin brothers, and that she doesn not know much about herself, about her birth and about the goal of this "research"...