The folks at AfterShock Comics are planning for a new series launch come the fall with the September 9th,2020 debut of Miles to Go. The new series launch comes from writer B. Clay Moore with artwork by Stephen Molnar, who is also supplying the main cover while Francesco Francavilla is producing an incentive cover for it. The opening installment is priced at $4.99 and the main cover is to the right while the preview pages are below.
“The story follows Amara Bishop, who spent her formative years as the apprentice to a government-sponsored assassin, and is now a single mother struggling to figure out why she’s never succeeded at anything in life the way she did at, you know — killing people,” said Moore. “When she and her daughter Alea find themselves attacked in their home, she joins an aging colleague of her former mentor’s and begins to unravel her past as she fights to secure her daughter’s future.
I’m excited for people to meet Amara and her “family.” I think we’ve created a unique protagonist with a backstory and a “hook” that will deepen as the story moves forward. One of the underlying themes examines the ways we relate to our loved ones in the wake of difficult decision-making, which hopefully adds some depth to what is, on the surface, an action-oriented genre tale.”
“It’s quite different than what people have come to expect from me,” said Molnar. “While my style of storytelling and panel design hasn’t changed much from what I’ve done in the past, my line art on MILES TO GO will be more loose and sketchy. It will also be the first project that I’ve done the color art on. As we get further along in the series I plan to rely on color more often and plan out each book’s color scheme at the layout stage.”
Plot Concept: Amara Bishop is a newly single mother with a long-buried past. Raised by an alcoholic father in a rundown trailer, Amara was a child when she learned to kill. And she hasn’t killed anyone since she was thirteen. When her aging mentor is murdered, and her daughter is threatened, that will soon change…
