Set in the year 2054, the sci-fi crime drama The Surrogates, a five-issue limited series by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, takes place in a world where people conduct their daily lives through remote controlled humanoid avatars known as surrogates. (Bruce Willis starred in a 2009 film based on the comic.) Law and the Multiverse considers the workforce issues, including gender and race relations and organized labor, within such a backdrop:
“We let employers require the use of all sorts of technology as a matter of course. But the story makes it clear that there are people with religious objections to the use of surrogates. Requiring there people to use surrogates as a condition of employment might constitute discrimation on the basis of religion, which is also impermissible.”
(Image: scene from The Surrogates #1, Brett Weldele, Top Cow Productions)
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