Jonathan Maberry has a new comic debuting this September from IDW Publishing. The best-selling author of V-Wars (which is currently being developed into a Netflix series) and Rot & Ruin will be teaming up with artist Alex Sanchez (“Star Wars: The Old Republic”) and colorist Jay Fotos (“Locke & Key”) on “Pandemica,” a dark tale of defiance against authoritarian abuses.
According to a press release from IDW, the first issue depicts “America on the verge of war, as a shadow government prepares to launch ‘purity bombs’ for ethnic cleansing, and a small group of scientists and former SpecOps shooters bands together to avert this disaster.”
“’Pandemica’ reflects a lot of fears about the direction in which our country and the world is going,” said Maberry. “It deals with a diverse group of people who discover that a secret organization is selling designer pathogens for use in ethnic cleansing. My story is about the kinds of people who take a stand against this, who find the courage to fight back, who put themselves in harm’s way to protect the innocent.”
Maberry also revealed that he has been working with “world-class scientists,” including epidemiologists and molecular biologists, to ensure the bioweapons depicted in the series are as realistic as possible. “What’s terrifying is that so much of this is actually possible; and that so many groups and governments over the last century have tried to make these kinds of genocidal weapons,” he said. “Thankfully, we’ve also seen that there are people who will stand up against this kind of madness.”
