Via The Hollywood Reporter, IDW Publishing have announced “The Ministry of Compliance,” a violent new sci-fi action series by writer John Ridley, artist Stefano Raffaele, colorist Brad Anderson, and letterer Ariana Maher. The comic takes 37 years after Earth was secretly taken over by aliens called the Devolution, who have been “[re]shaping humanity in preparation for our assimilation into its empire.”
The Devolution consists of 13 ministries, the most feared of whom are the Ministry of Compliance. Led by Avigail Senna, the Ministry ensures the other groups “stay in line and focus on the larger mission. As Earth stands on the verge of assimilation, things start to go very wrong, and Avigail must deal with a conspiracy head-on.”
Ridley describes the three leads, Avigail, Quinn and Kingsley, as “easily my three favorite characters in 33+ years of creating,” and says “there’s a lot of literal and figurative backstabbing and heads rolling as the three quietly lead the charge to take over all of Earth, which is quite the chore… ‘The Ministry of Compliance,’ however, is really about these three trying to figure out who they are, and what they mean to each other which are the basics of human nature. Sometimes it takes ‘aliens’ to show us a little something about ourselves.”
Issue #1 will be released on November 15, with main covers by Raffaele and Anderson, and variants by Ryan Sook. The comic marks Ridley’s first comic since his “Black Panther” run, which wrapped up earlier this year after only 15 issues, and his second comic with Raffaele after “GCPD: The Blue Wall.” It is also the third IDW Original announced this week, after Scott Snyder and Hayden Sherman’s “Dark Spaces: Dungeon,” and Patrick Horvath’s “Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees,” both starting in October. In the meantime, you can read a preview of “Compliance” at The Hollywood Reporter.
