AfterShock Comics has revealed a new title that will be out later this year with Moth & Whisper. The new project is set for a September 12th, 2018 debut priced at $3.99. Ted Anderson is writing the story for it with Jen Hickman handling the artwork. She also did the main cover you can see to the right while the variant cover is from Jorge Corona below after a couple of preview pages of the series.
“Moth & Whisper is a cyberpunk thriller, set in a near-future dystopian city where the cars are self-driving and the skies are filled with facial-recognition drones,” said writer Ted Anderson. “Corporate employees live in well-defended enclaves that might as well be private fiefdoms. Anonymity is impossible; privacy is a thing of the past. In this nightmare of a city, everybody knows that the two best thieves are the Moth and the Whisper, two infiltrators of unparalleled skill, two ghosts with no faces. But nobody knows that the original Moth and Whisper disappeared six months ago, or that the new Moth and Whisper are one and the same person: the child of the Moth and Whisper. Our main character is a highly skilled teenager whose parents raised them to be the best thief in the world, but can they survive on their own? Can they find out what happened to their parents? And can they live up to the reputations of the Moth and the Whisper?”
“Moth & Whisper combines a character-driven coming of age story with a good heist/spy story,” said Jen Hickman. “It’s the kind of book that will delight you with all the wily fun crime stuff, and then keep you cheering for our hero to find what they’re searching for and who they really are. If that sounds up your alley, pick it up!”
Plot Concept: Everyone knows that the two greatest thieves in the city are the Moth and the Whisper. Very few know that the Moth and the Whisper disappeared six months ago. And what nobody knows is that the new Moth and Whisper are actually one person pretending to be both of them. One supremely skilled but uncertain young genderfluid thief: Niki, the child of the Moth and the Whisper.
Niki has been trained by their parents in the arts of stealth and infiltration, but they’re still just a teenager, and now they’re alone, searching for their parents in a hostile cyberpunk dystopia. Corporations run the streets while crime lords like Ambrose Wolfe run the alleys—identity is a commodity and privacy is impossible. The truth about Niki’s parents and their disappearance is out there, but can Niki survive long enough to find it?
