What do you do when you live on the future abandoned Earth where everything is cool and hi-tech like in the movies, but you can’t help but find it all exceedingly dull? You get surprise attacked by an alien invasion, that’s what.
Launching its print debut at the upcoming Thought Bubble festival November 23nd, Sam Read and Caio Oliveira’s “Exit Generation” will be available for pick up and purchase at the convention. A beautifully illustrated book that’s the first in a four-part series, it takes place years after our exodus from Earth like a less depressing version of WALL-E, showing what happens to the people who did not get to leave the planet and focusing in on Jack who is still focused on punk rock records and Criterion DVDs when the worst occurs. It’s a fun sci-fi comic which takes an interesting look at our present via the gaze of the future, and throws in an alien invasion to boot.
“Exit Generation” #1 is available online now, but it will be debuting next week during Thought Bubble where writer Sam Read will be tabling at Table 2 in Royal Armouries Hall. We’ll have a full review for you later in the week with more thoughts on the issue, but for a sneak peek at what you’ll find within, take a look:
For the official solicit, please see below.
It’s 2055 and Jack is bored.
20 years ago most of Earth’s population abandoned the planet in search of a less crowded place to live. But rather than descend into chaos, the world they left became a paradise, free from poverty, war and crime.
In this utopia Jack spends his days hanging out with his friend Mo, and obsessing over action movies and punk records, longing for some real excitement. But then a bunch of extra-terrestrial visitors arrive, and Jack’s wish is granted…
Exit Generation is a four part series telling the tale of one boy’s search for purpose against a backdrop of space aliens, big firearms and punk rock.
Writer: Sam Read
Artist: Caio Oliveira
Colourist: Ruth Redmond
Letters and production: Colin Bell
Cover: Ramon Villalobos
Editor: Adam P. Knave
