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Join the Future
TOMORROW BELONGS TO…WHO?
The Future. Ultra-modern megacities reward millions of their citizens with a completely funded life, with every need met, from food to housing and healthcare, in order to compete in an economic power struggle in which population is key.
But a few rural residents still cling to their independence in what last American small towns are left. When a nearby megacity pressures the people of a small town to join up or else, a young teenage girl named Clem will learn how far she'll go to defend her principles.
Written by Zack Kaplan (LOST CITY EXPLORERS) with art from Piotr Kowalski (Port of Earth, Eclipse, Sex, Marvel Knights: Hulk, The Dark Tower), JOIN THE FUTURE is a sci-fi western that examines a future where everyone must ask what your values are truly worth
The Future. Ultra-modern megacities reward millions of their citizens with a completely funded life, with every need met, from food to housing and healthcare, in order to compete in an economic power struggle in which population is key.
But a few rural residents still cling to their independence in what last American small towns are left. When a nearby megacity pressures the people of a small town to join up or else, a young teenage girl named Clem will learn how far she'll go to defend her principles.
Written by Zack Kaplan (LOST CITY EXPLORERS) with art from Piotr Kowalski (Port of Earth, Eclipse, Sex, Marvel Knights: Hulk, The Dark Tower), JOIN THE FUTURE is a sci-fi western that examines a future where everyone must ask what your values are truly worth
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 19, 2021
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September 11, 2020
Join the Future is about a future where megacities started gobbling up the small towns around them, offering prosperity and advanced technology as incentives to become a citizen and offering the whip instead when refused. One girl decides to stand up to them and the freedom to make her own choice.
Zack Kaplan is an up and coming comic writer. Eclipse is also very good. This was great. It had a Western feel to it while being set 40 years in the future. Piotr Kowalski art has vastly improved since I first saw it in one of the Dark Tower miniseries.
Zack Kaplan is an up and coming comic writer. Eclipse is also very good. This was great. It had a Western feel to it while being set 40 years in the future. Piotr Kowalski art has vastly improved since I first saw it in one of the Dark Tower miniseries.
April 13, 2022
Snabba vändningar och coolt världsbygge med bra tecknarstil. Den här gillade jag!
July 1, 2021
Strong start, boring ending.
Nothing special, overall...
Cowboys vs "the future".
Nothing special, overall...
Cowboys vs "the future".
April 2, 2023
Everything I wanted.
did-not-finish
April 8, 2023Bailed halfway. The author says in the afterword this is a nonpolitical premise, but I heard strong undertones of "the rich and spoiled city folk" versus "the real Americans who have values" 😒 I'm not into the cult of rugged individualism. Making the place with Universal Basic Income and universal healthcare and guaranteed housing the dystopia made me roll my eyes. Yeah we get it you hate socialism. They even had the city folk reintroduce wolves to restore the ecosystem because "they're dumb and don't get it" -- and of course an individual wolf 😒 attacks a person who had been shooting moments before 🙄
December 4, 2022
When sci-fi or dystopia meets a love of Westerns great things cane happen (Firefly is a stand out in that genera for me) and this is a great concept for a comic that allows for some spectacular scenes and artwork. The story did not quite live up to the concept, for me, but it was good.
Clementine is a teenager in one of the last, holdout small towns of America, when the neighbouring mega city kills her family in a bit to wipe out the town, Clem goes rogue in pursuit of revenge, gunslinger style. Just a girl and her horse against the big, bad guy corporations. It is pretty fun.
In THIS future, futuristic cities have sucked the manpower out of all the American small towns around them. This is an economic plan, once the citizens are absorbed, the small towns are raised and the land returned to it's natural state. I have mixed feelings here: continents with the environment fully restores are high on my list of ideal things that COULD happen, obviously. On the other hand, treating people as a resource is weird, and I wonder if we are looking at a Make Room! Make Room! type scenario down the track. The next episode would show our heroine going into the city.
Clementine is a teenager in one of the last, holdout small towns of America, when the neighbouring mega city kills her family in a bit to wipe out the town, Clem goes rogue in pursuit of revenge, gunslinger style. Just a girl and her horse against the big, bad guy corporations. It is pretty fun.
In THIS future, futuristic cities have sucked the manpower out of all the American small towns around them. This is an economic plan, once the citizens are absorbed, the small towns are raised and the land returned to it's natural state. I have mixed feelings here: continents with the environment fully restores are high on my list of ideal things that COULD happen, obviously. On the other hand, treating people as a resource is weird, and I wonder if we are looking at a Make Room! Make Room! type scenario down the track. The next episode would show our heroine going into the city.
January 7, 2021
Set in a future where megacities are considered the promised land where people can live under the economic power and technological advances of these buildings, there are rural towns like Franklin that choose to retain their tech-free independence. When the townspeople of Franklin are hit hard by the ultramodern authorities of a nearby megacity, the Mayor’s strong-willed teenage daughter, Clementine Libbey, goes on a quest of revenge and resistance as she challenges the city’s control, while clinging to her small-town principles.
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November 27, 2020
Despite some pacing issues this is a pretty solid book!
Also the ending kind of confused me
Also the ending kind of confused me
April 7, 2021
It’s an interesting premise and could have been good, but wasn’t. Bland, boring, predictable. Kowalski’s art takes it up to 3 stars.
July 7, 2021
It was too short to truly get invested.
February 28, 2022
This story hits several important themes of a western and does it so well. I loved reading it
April 15, 2023
Printing and pictures were quite nice but the story was really empty
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