With the popularity of the Animosity series, AfterShock Comics has revealed a new series will arrive this October with Animosity: Evolution. Written by main writer Marguerite Bennett and joined by Eric Gapstur on the artwork for it, this one is being billed as the Star Trek to the Star Wars of the main series, looking at things in a more philosophical/analytical angle rather than the sweeping storyline.
“AfterShock has given me, by far, the most creative freedom I’ve ever had in my career, ” said Marguerite Bennett. “Their unrelenting support for a story this bizarre, this massive, this funny and sometimes this cruel, makes me endlessly grateful. We have a team behind us, promoting us and sustaining us, and because of AfterShock Comics and their entire squad, ANIMOSITY was made possible.”
“Where Rafael de Latorre’s art and Rob Schawger’s colors brought the world of ANIMOSITY to rich and brutal life, Eric Gapstur’s pencils are smooth, cool, striking, and serene. Their stories are different, but one day, in a highly unexpected way, they will meet.
I am so proud of this story, and I would love, love to share it with you.””
Plot Concept: ANIMOSITY: EVOLUTION is about the rise of that supposed safe haven—the city by the sea, unlike any other—where, during the chaos, the Animals peacefully took power with minimal loss of life. Set in the first weeks and months after this apocalypse begins, the Animals and the surviving humans try to build and rebuild a functioning society where they all might live.
How do they eat? Carnivores can’t digest grass, though herbivores can digest meat, and meat is now truly murder. Where do they live? A city of 1 million people just became a city of 3 billion, counting every human, pet, bird, rat, fish and insect inside. How can they have children—we all know rabbits breed like, well, rabbits—but sunfish can lay 300 MILLION eggs in a single year. How can they defend their city from the increasingly frantic remains of the human governments, when their limbs are not shaped to the use of human technology? How can they learn to live with each other, treat each other, train each other?
