Longtime DC artist Inaki Miranda is branching out with his first creator-owned series, writing and drawing it – with help from his brother, Roy.
Scheduled to debut October 14 from AfterShock Comics, We Live is a near-future apocalyptic story where humanity, on the bring of extinction, get a warning from an unseen alien entity that it’s coming to kill them all – but will save 5,000 human children.
“We Live is a bittersweet apocalyptic story seen through the eyes of two kids, two siblings, Hototo (5 years old) and Tala (13), who must face the tragic journey of the refugee as their only chance of survival,” Inaki Miranda said in the announcement.
Miranda is pulling inspiration from Hayao Miyazaki, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Theo Angelopoulos’ Landscape in the Mist, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and more.
“Just grains of salt from all of these and more that I’m sure I’m leaving behind, have shaped We Live in some way or another,” Miranda said.
Here is the solicitation for the first issue:
We Live #1 / $4.99 / 32 pages / Color
Writers: Roy Miranda & Inaki Miranda
Artist: Inaki Miranda
Colorist: Eva de la Cruz
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover: Inaki Miranda
Incentive Cover: Dustin Nguyen
The year is 2084 and the world has changed. Wracked by calamities and crawling with monsters, the last remaining members of the human race face a dangerous existence.
And now Earth has been sent a message from the deepest reaches of space: A dark countdown to the extinction of all humanity. But there is hope – five thousand children will be rescued on extinction day by these mysterious message-senders.
This is the journey of little Hototo, one of the lucky five thousand children who will be taken from Earth to live a better life in the stars – but only if his teenage sister, Tala, can safely deliver him to the nearest Beacon before time runs out.
WE LIVE is a world of violence and beauty, a unique tale of the apocalypse as told by the Miranda Brothers, that invites both dread and hope.