GO READ: City Lights 2: Planet Of Fear

Above: City Lights 2: Planet Of Fear, cover by Jonathan King. Copyright Chad Taylor & Jonathan King 2012.

The second chapter of the thoughtful sci-fi serial City Lights by Chad Taylor & Jonathan King is now available to read at The Brighter Future website HERE (and Chapter 1 HERE). In this chapter, scientist Jim Green debriefs Pentagon military generals on his potential discovery of alien life on a distant planet, and what it may mean for mankind.

Above: Dr Green debates the potential threat to Earth from the existence of alien life-forms. Art by Jonathan King. Copyright Chad Taylor & Jonathan King 2012.

Once again this strip nicely skews the conventions of the sci-fi genre, playing off the fantasies of alien invasions embedded in our popular culture and contrasting it with the reality of our planet's limited safe guards and technological reach. It will be interesting to see where this goes next. As the saying goes: To be continued...

-AK!

GO READ: City Lights by Chad Taylor & Jonathan King

Above: A page from City Lights by Chad Taylor & Jonathan King. Copyright Chad Taylor & Jonathan King 2012.

In the latest addition to his Brighter Future Blog, cartoonist/film maker Jonathan King has teamed up with writer Chad Taylor for a 9 page comic, City Lights. It follows a debate between two astronomers who may have just discovered signs of life on another planet; but what difference would this discovery make to the future of mankind, or more directly, to their own lives? The answer may surprise you. 

You can read the full story HERE.

-AK!