Karen Berger’s Dark Horse Comics imprint Berger Books have announced “Olivia Twist,” a four-issue series from novelist Darin Strauss (in his comics debut), co-writer and fellow newcomer Adam Dalva (Creative Writing Professor at Rutgers University), artist Emma Vieceli (“Manga Shakespeare,” “Jem & the Holograms: Viral”), and colorist Lee Loughridge (“Crude,” “Southern Cross”). The comic is a futuristic, genderbent spin on Charles Dickens’s classic novel. Here’s the solicitation, courtesy of Paste magazine:
“Olivia Twist”
Writers: Darin Strauss & Adam Dalva
Artist: Emma Vieceli
Colorist: Lee Loughridge
Publisher: Berger Books/Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: September 19, 2018In a dangerous future London, teenage orphan Olivia Twist joins the Esthers, a rag-tag gang of girl thieves, to save a boy she barely knows. Led by the elegant, queenly Fagin, they steal from the rich inhabitants of Vertical City while battling the illegally-augmented Trads for control of the streets.
But Olivia’s life of newfound friendships in this world of internment camps and dark technology gets even more complicated when she discovers that she has more power and wealth than she’s ever dreamed of. But it comes at unfathomable cost.
“I’ve been a comics fan ever since I was a kid, and to take the storytelling genius of Dickens into the world of comics is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Strauss told Paste. “To work with Karen Berger, whom I’ve been a fan of since ‘Swamp Thing,’ my friend the brilliant Adam Dalva, and the incomparable Emma Vieceli is a dream come true.” Head on over to Paste for more artwork, and be sure to pick up a copy this September.
