AfterShock Comics ventures once again into the unknown with the release this week of a gripping new sci-fi title, “Where Starships Go to Die,” and it’s a wacky descent into the sea of a deep blue to explore a vast graveyard of submerged abandoned spaceships.
Since bursting onto the scene in 2016, AfterShock has been one of the world’s fastest growing independent publishers, best known for its acclaimed stable of unnerving original horror titles like ‘Bunny Mask’, ‘Chicken Devil’, “Maniac of New York”, “I breathed a body” and “My date with monsters”.
But lately, the company’s ambitious reach has branched out into the realm of science fiction with offerings such as “We Live”, “Spectro” and “Astronaut Down” with enviable success. His last entry is “Where Starships Go to Die (opens in a new tab),” and his
Written by Mark Sable (“Miskatonic”, “War on Terror: Godkillers”) and illustrated by Italian artist Alberto Locatelli (“The Believers”), “Where Starships Go To Die #1”, arrives June 8, 2022 and carries with it’s unsettling cinematic tone of movies like “Sphere”, “Interstellar”, “Alien”, “The Thing” and “The Abyss”.
“I was thrilled to tell a sci-fi horror story based on one of the most interesting places on Earth and a truly disturbing theory about why we haven’t found extraterrestrial life” , Sable explained in an AfterShock press release. “I love that it’s character driven, with a diverse cast that artist Alberto Locatelli brings to life.”
The plot focuses on a remote location in the South Pacific called Point Nemo, which is the farthest ocean point on Earth from any landmass, and a notorious location that has served as a dumping ground for space stations, rockets, and satellites. for decades.
In 2075, amid rampant climate change, the world’s first African astronaut teams up with an Indian shipping tycoon who believes he is a relative of Captain Nemo to embark on a perilous rescue mission to investigate the crash of the Humanity’s first starship, the Daedalus.
However, what they uncover is evidence of a Civil War-era secret space program and a hostile alien probe responsible for the spacecraft’s disappearance.
“I was also inspired by the real Point Nemo and the idea of ’berserker probes’ – theoretical, self-replicating spacecraft created by extraterrestrial civilizations to find and wipe out any life they see as a threat”, adds Sand. “They were offered as a very chilling answer to the Fermi paradox, the question of why we haven’t encountered intelligent life – because the berserker probes killed them all…and we’re next.”
“Where Spaceships Go To Die #1” from AfterShock Comics (opens in a new tab)is now available in comic book stores and online outlets after dropping on June 8, 2022.
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