Faith in the Future (PRINT)

IN THE DISTANT FUTURE, FAITH IS A PEST-CONTROL PROBLEM

Humanity has vanished.

In its place, a new civilisation has grown among the organic towers of a strange and distant future. Its people possess advanced technology, elegant homes and, unfortunately, many of the same domestic irritations that have plagued intelligent life throughout history.

One young woman discovers that something has infested her apartment.

They breed rapidly. They steal food. They have families, communities, rituals and an elaborate religion promising them dominion over the world.

They call themselves Christians.

She calls an exterminator.

Faith in the Future is a short, stark science-fiction comic about religion, empathy and the ease with which intelligent beings can be reduced to the status of vermin.

The infestation is inconvenient, but its members are plainly more than animals. They care for their children, build a society and place absolute trust in their faith. Their reluctant host can see something recognisably human in them.

The exterminator cannot.

To him, they are simply pests—and pests are there to be removed.

Inside this print edition:

• The complete Faith in the Future comic.

• The original prose story upon which it was based.

• Stark black-and-white artwork by Darkzel.

• A brief, self-contained work of speculative fiction.

• Themes of religious certainty, dehumanisation, compassion and extermination.

• More theological discomfort than is usual in a story about household vermin.

This is not a comforting story about faith enduring against impossible odds.

It asks what faith looks like from the outside; whether intelligence and innocence matter once a group has been labelled an infestation; and how easily moral hesitation can be silenced by someone wearing protective clothing and carrying the proper equipment.

The future may be strange.

The excuses remain horribly familiar.

PRINT EDITION

• Complete one-shot science-fiction comic

• Includes the original prose story

• 15 pages

• A5 paperback: 148 × 210 mm

• Black-and-white interior

• Saddle-stitched binding

• Written by James “Grim” Desborough

• Illustrated by Darkzel

• ISBN: 978-1-4452-5486-9

CONTENT NOTE

Contains religious satire, extermination, disturbing imagery and an intentionally provocative inversion of humanity’s place in the world.

Small, strange and unlikely to improve your relationship with either organised religion or pest controllers.