Get a Look Inside Rogue State, the Spiritual Successor to Calexit

In Calexit, Matteo Pizzolo and Amancay Nahuelpan’s imaginative and prescient of the long run imagined a dystopian world the place California seceded from the United States within the wake of the election of an authoritarian president. Now, Pizzolo is returning to tear much more from tomorrow’s headlines with the same concept: besides this time it’s a bit greater than California.

io9 has your first look contained in the pages of Black Mask’s Rogue State, from Pizzolo, Calexit: San Diego’s Carlos Granda, and Calexit cowl artists Soo Lee and Ashley A. Woods. Although circuitously connect with Calexit, there’s many related concepts inside Rogue State’s world, in a lot of it being a hyper-extrapolated, sideways look at some very real-world anxieties.

Set in an America plunged into turmoil by a contested presidential election—resulting in a crackdown on nationwide protests and the Supreme Court legitimizing citizen militias to create a horrifying police state—Rogue State follows Clara, a vigilante who crosses paths with Vya Of Brightstars, the chief of a burgeoning resistance pressure in San Francisco’s Mission District seeking to lead a battered and brutalized individuals up in arms towards the state. But there’s extra to Clara than meets the attention even earlier than she meets Vya, as you possibly can see in our preview beneath:

Rogue State #1 hits cabinets this October.

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