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Do You Need A Body To Be A Person? – Arcadia Is New From Boom! Studios

Published Tue, 07 Apr 2015 19:30:17 -0500

Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeiffer's new comic series Arcadia asks the question: If your mind was inside a computer, would you still be a person? During a global pandemic that wipes out 99% of humanity, four billion people are saved by being digitized and uploaded to the cyber-utopia Arcadia. But when the energy resources for both the digital and real humans (called The Meat) survive on start getting depleted, how long will The Meat continue to help?

"Alex and Eric have taken the detailed world-building of series like Astro City and Game of Thrones and given us a sci-fi story that's massive in scope," said BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon. "Arcadia hits you with the hard questions about humanity in a technologically advanced world. It's a story that explores the value of human life, how we define it, and the connection between family across the very planes of existence. This is a series you can get lost in."

Arcadia #1 arrives in comic shops on May 6th with the first of a five-part connecting main cover by Matt Taylor (Deep State). Also available in a limited quantity are a 10 Years incentive cover by Frazer Irving (Annihilator, Uncanny X-Men), and a retailer incentive cover by series artist Eric Scott Pfeiffer. A new cover by W. Scott Forbes (Spider-Woman, Silk) has been added to the Final Order Cutoff (FOC) deadline, and it can be ordered in any quantity.