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With the full satellite facing a increasing clime crisis, cartoonist Mathieu Bablet has a caller graphic caller astir what beingness connected the different broadside of that situation mightiness look like. Magnetic and Oni Press are teaming up to bring Bablet's graphic caller Silent Jenny to an English-language assemblage for the archetypal time.
With the Kickstarter run for Silent Jenny unrecorded now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the graphic novel. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:
Silent Jenny: Exclusive Graphic Novel Preview Gallery
Silent Jenny is written and drawn by Bablet. The publication caps disconnected a thematic trilogy of sci-fi graphic novels that started with Shangri La and Carbon & Silicon. Here's the authoritative logline for Silent Jenny:
Silent Jenny explores a not-too-distant future, wherever clime alteration continues to ravage the planet, and the disappearance of insects has led to the extremity of pollination, rendering immense areas of onshore infertile. A endurance dynamic has emerged—mobile cities called "monads" person formed, and radical strive to assistance each other; each radical with its ain customs, traditions, and ways of life.Jenny is simply a alternatively solitary researcher trying to reconstruct the satellite arsenic it erstwhile was. She seeks to retrieve bee DNA to clone and re-create pollinating insects. However, she volition travel to recognize that this is impossible—the aged satellite nary longer exists, and a caller 1 indispensable beryllium built. She volition person to marque bid with the conception that each things travel to an end, nary substance however overmuch you whitethorn combat the inevitable..."I'm thrilled that aft Shangri-La and Carbon & Silicon, the American nationalist volition yet observe the extremity of my subject fabrication trilogy!” said Bablet successful a statement. “I anticipation you bask this plunge into the underworld, exploring the wastelands, and traveling aboard the monads!"
“Silent Jenny asks, ‘What remains of our humanity erstwhile our tools are gone?’ Through a blend of godforsaken punk aesthetics and dystopic nightmare, the communicative is astir biology reclamation and the hunt for meaning successful a satellite that has moved connected from us,” said Magnetic Press’ Director of Publishing, Mike Kennedy. “The publication explores however we pass done action, gesture, and beingness — and however meaning survives adjacent erstwhile connection fails. Like Mathieu’s erstwhile books Shangri-La and Carbon & Silicon, this publication packs a almighty punch that truly makes you deliberation astir wherever we, arsenic a species, mightiness beryllium heading. If you loved the atmospheric enigma of The Arrival, the haunting wastelands of Nausicaä, oregon the architectural grandeur of Moebius, Silent Jenny belongs connected your shelf.”
The crowdfunding run for Silent Jenny is unrecorded now.
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