Jimenez Alburquerque
Vault Comics have announced a new sci-fi series, “No One’s Rose,” written by Zac Thompson and Emily Horn, with art by Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, colorist Raúl Angulo, and designs by Tim Daniel. The comic takes place centuries “after the fall of the Anthropocene,” with the remainders of human civilization all housed in a huge dome powered by sustainable energy sources, known as the Green Zone. Inside the Green Zone lives teenage bio-engineer, Tenn Gavrilo, who has the ability to rebuild the planet, and her brother, Seren, who is determined to dismantle the utopia that is the Green Zone.
In a statement, Horn described how she and Thompson have been building the world of “No One’s Rose” for three years, and have tried to imagine the sustainable infrastructure that powers the Green Zone practically, answering questions such as “how do you feed a city of 30,000 people without large stretches of agricultural land?” She described some of modern day solutions included in the book “vertical gardens climbing buildings, a giant oxygenating tree, and buildings that live amid the forested lower level of the dome as if they sprang up as part of the natural world.”
She went on to describe inspiration for the book being rooted in how “the language [in news stories about climate change] was often about obliteration, not about adaptation.” Thompson echoed these sentiments, saying that even though the pair each try to live sustainably, the “existential dread about the ensuing climate crisis” didn’t go away, and described the book as a way of giving “hope that a better world is possible.”
“No One’s Rose” #1 will be released in March 2020. For more from the writers and Alburquerque, as well as the variant cover and concept art for the series, head to The Beat.
