“I joke that ‘Giga’ is a murder mystery with giant robots, but in truth it’s a book about a deicide — about what happens when gods and their attendant belief systems die,” Paknadel told the Reporter. “Sometimes history deems these deaths necessary, even if they lead to great schisms, demagoguery or even war; however, the lesson from history — and, I would argue, from our turbulent present — is that we need to be very careful in how we go about replacing our gods. ‘Giga’ is set in a world on the cusp of one of these convulsions.”
Artist John Lê said the comic’s script brought back memories of other sci-fi series he loved. “Like lucid flashbacks, each story beat brought me back to the exact moments where I fell in love with the worlds of ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion,’ ‘Akira,’ ‘Tekkonkinkreet’ and too many others to list,” he said. “My passion for these stories, worlds and visual aesthetics is the energy I wanted to bring to the world of ‘Giga’ — a love letter in the form of a comic book.”
“Giga” #1 is tentatively set for release in July: head on over to the Reporter for more art in the meantime.
