DSTLRY announced it will release Life, a six-issue mini-series by Brian Azzarello, Stephanie Phillips, and Danijel Žeželj.
Life is going to be presented in a flip-book fashion with two stories that collide in the middle.
“LIFE is about justice—and that being given more life isn’t necessarily a gift. It explores incarceration and culture through the extreme filter of crime fiction. It’s confrontational, though Danijel makes it incredibly seductive to look at,” Phillips & Azzarello said in a joint statement from DSTLRY. “The flipbook design allows us to develop two narrative perspectives that will clash and segue through a prison break and a heist. Pick your poison.”
LIFE presents a grim future where the most depraved prisoners face a new extreme punishment—artificial immortality that lasts the length of their combined sentences. After centuries pass, the forgotten prisoners encounter a ship filled with intergalactic thieves eyeing the planet’s long-abandoned mines. Unbeknownst to the pirates, their target is far from deserted, haunted by the remaining prisoners now mutated into grotesque monsters.
Each story—that of the prisoners and thieves—initially unfolds independently through each end of LIFE’s innovative flipbook design. The stories crash and catalyze in surprising ways, as Phillips and Azzarello peel back the layered connections between the two groups and their looming brutal confrontation.
Life #1 arrives this summer in print and digital formats.
