Writer B. Clay Moore (“Bloodshot,” “’76”), artist and colorist Stephen Molnar (“Danger Girl,” “Star Trek: Mission’s End”), and letterer Thomas Mauer (“The Beauty,” “Lark’s Killer”) are creating “Miles to Go” for AfterShock Comics, a story of a long-retired former child assassin.
“The story follows Amara Bishop, who spent her formative years as the apprentice to a government-sponsored assassin, and is now a single mother struggling to figure out why she’s never succeeded at anything in life the way she did at, you know — killing people,” said Moore. “When she and her daughter Alea find themselves attacked in their home, she joins an aging colleague of her former mentor’s and begins to unravel her past as she fights to secure her daughter’s future.”
“What attracted me to Clay’s concept for the series was the normal problems that the characters are dealing with. The book may have a larger than life plot device pushing it forward, but it’s the personal details of the main characters’ relationships that I think a lot of people will be able to relate to,” said Molnar. “It’s quite different than what people have come to expect from me. While my style of storytelling and panel design hasn’t changed much from what I’ve done in the past, my line art on ‘Miles to Go’ will be more loose and sketchy. It will also be the first project that I’ve done the color art on. As we get further along in the series I plan to rely on color more often and plan out each book’s color scheme at the layout stage.”
“Miles to Go” #1 releases September 9, 2020 with a cover by Stephen Molnar, and a variant by Francesco Francavilla.
