Discover What Horrors Lie Within The Interstellar Journey To The Promised Planet Of ‘EDEN’
by Anton Kromoff
Welcome to the table,
Space is the final frontier if all the pop culture information is to be trusted, and I feel like it is. The cosmos is the place where endless storytelling possibly can happen and, often, it is where we see ourselves having to go as a species due to the amount of damage the generations before us have heaped onto this planet. So it’s no wonder that the internationally renowned publisher Humanoids is announcing yet another compelling science fiction thriller that touches on the themes of mankind dealing with an unstable Earth.
EDEN — this new science fiction story by Alain Bismut and Abel Ferry, written by Christopher Sebela, art by Marc Laming, lettered by Troy Peteri, and colored by Lee Loughridge — is about a distant future where a desperate man attempts to save his family from destruction on an unstable Earth, but finds that he may have doomed them to an even more sinister fate by sneaking away on a spaceship to the fabled EDEN.
The story focuses on the Oximenko family who are scavengers forced to take drastic measures to survive in a future where scarce resources and economic and environmental decline have caused society to crumble.
When a local family that very closely resembles the Oximenkos wins a lottery to be transported to the safe-haven planet of EDEN, Gabe Oximenko hatches a plan to swap out his family with the winners, getting them a trip to paradise.
All goes according to plan until, midway through the journey, the family’s deception is revealed…
but they’re not the only ones with a secret.
Gabe and his family must once again fight for survival, but this time far away from home, in the cold vastness of space, with an entire transport ship looking to make sure they never make it to EDEN … or anywhere else!
“When I was offered the chance to build a world with an artist like Marc Laming, I could not say yes fast enough. And EDEN is the kind of story where we could really cut loose and make something that’s at turns a small and tender family story and a huge and chaotic nightmare of a world spinning off its axis,” said Sebela.
“I have wanted to work with Christopher Sebela since I first read his excellent series High Crimes so when I was offered the opportunity to work with him on a project at Humanoids, it was something I immediately jumped at. Add to that, EDEN is a sci-fi thriller set in a near future Paris and a story I could do some serious world-building for was a real draw and artistic challenge,” said Laming. “It has been an honor to work on this book with such an accomplished writer and such a prestigious publisher.”
EDEN will be available in bookstores everywhere and in comic shops in April 2024 and digital copies can be purchased on your favorite digital platforms.
Until next time, boldly go!