After Dark is a three-issue, dark science fiction

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 limited series

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 published by Radical Comics

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 in a 56-page graphic novel

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la format. The series concept and characters were created by film

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 director

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/writer

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 Antoine Fuqua

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 (director of Training Day

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) and actor

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 Wesley Snipes

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 (star of the Blade

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 series). The series is written by Peter Milligan

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 (best known for Marvel Comics

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's X-Statix

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 series) and illustrated by Jeff Nentrup.

On June 30, 2010, a "#0" issue was released as a prequel

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. The official start of the main series is August, 2010.

Publication history

The first book is due to be released in August (ISBN 1-935417-15-0) and the second in October (ISBN 1-935417-16-9).

Plot synopsis

The series is set in a post-apocalyptic near-future in which the Earth

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 exists in a state of near-perpetual darkness. Civilization has largely become confined to domed cities in which the populace exists in a state of drug-addled stupor in order to while away time between birth and death.

The rulers of Solar City, the most populated of humanity's remaining bastions, enlist a Bedouin

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 drifter, named simply Omar, to lead a team into the wilds outside of the city in search of the savior

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they believe may exist somewhere in the sparsely populated wilds.