Want to live in a city that is overrun by rats? Welcome to New Rat City from Scout Comics.
New Rat City is written by Honor Vincent with art by George Quandros.
New York City, 2083. After decades of floods, infrastructure disasters, and abandonment, what was once the greatest city on Earth has shrunk to a shadow of its former glory.
Pest controllers keep the city livable for the few people who remain. They’re limited by law to using non-lethal methods like sound cannons and pheromones, until a massive rat horde spurs the mayor to lift the no-kill order for two weeks so tourists don’t stop visiting.
Raised to believe it was morally indefensible to kill an animal, Felicia Shepherd is a pest controller who tries to deal with the swarms of rats and roaches plaguing her city without hurting anything. As if that weren’t enough, she’s also wrestling with a growing suspicion that her mother, who disappeared after a horrible accident with a neural implant, isn’t actually dead. And the fact that the rat and roach swarms seem to be… talking to her.
“This story has been pestering me for many years, and when I finally started writing the script for the first issue I did it with the plans to send it to Scout,” said Honor Vincent in a press release. “As someone who’s relatively new around here, it means the world to me to have my first completed series published by a company who puts out great work and supports indie creators in everything they do.”
New Rat City is out now.
