By Zack Quaintance — Today’s small press preview is Monitor, a new sci-fi comic that launched for sale online in early April. The book is by Moscow-based writer Damian Wampler, along with artist Elisabeth Mkheidze and colorist Lukasz Juskiewicz. It is a blue-toned sci-fi adventure romp that incorporates familiar tech elements and questions of today, including data, privacy, and whether being forever connected via the Internet means overall giving up some freedom.

The creative team had big plans for this 100-page book, which included tabling at SDCC and attending a number of other cons this year. With that advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, plans have to change. There won’t be many (any?) more cons this year, and so the team is now promoting the book online. A familiar story at this point.

Anyway! With all of that in mind, below you can find a link to purchase a copy of the graphic novel, a description of the book, and a gallery of interior artwork to peruse. Enjoy!

Data is the only currency. Privacy is the only crime. In the country of Seaboard, you are connected, or you are deleted. The server rules over all, and those who would choose to live as Disconnects find themselves hunted by the Axons. These elite soldiers have one task: to protect the integrity of the network. Follow Eric, a rogue Axon, and Talia, a Disconnected radical, as they race to escape the heavily-policed city-state and find freedom among the free-born peoples living on the fringes of society. Explore the ideas of connectivity and what freedom truly is. Who makes the truth and what does it really mean? Who decides your fate in a world where computers know your every action and desire before you do? What would you sacrifice to be free?

>>CLICK HERE to buy the 100-page graphic novel MONITOR now!<<

Monitor
Writer: Damian Wampler
Artist: Elisabeth Mkheidze
Colorist: Lukasz Juskiewicz
Buy It Online: CLICK HERE!

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.