Project ARKA - Into the Dark Unknown

by Romain Benassaya, Joan Urgell (Illustrator)

Overview

In the not-too-distant future, the planet Earth has been destroyed, its orbit withering and its citizens desperate to escape to the stars. The solution? The Arka, massive vessels bound for the distant promised land of Leonis. When the passengers of Arka III awaken from their long intergalactic journey, they realize they’re not in Leonis. Not only that, their journey has taken much longer than the planned two hundred years, and has landed them in a starless, seemingly endless place. Eric Rives, the ship’s second-in-command, and his partner Jia Tang are sent on an exploratory mission to investigate the dark labyrinth that surrounds them… but what they find is beyond belief.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643375748
Publisher:	Humanoids, Inc.
Publication date:	07/18/2023
Sold by:	HUMANOIDS INC - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	55 MB
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Age Range:	3 Months to 16 Years

About the Author

Born in Nice in 1984, Romain Benassaya studied linguistics before leaving to teach French abroad, passing through Canada, Uganda, and Thailand, where he still lives today. Passionate about science fiction, deeply influenced by Frank Herbert's Dune and Dan Simmons' Hyperion, in 2016 he published his first book, the space-opera Arca with Critic. In the same universe, he published Pyramids in 2018, then The Last Ark in 2022. His adaptation of Arca for Humanoids is his first foray into the world of comics.
Joan Urgell is a Catalan cartoonist, trained at the Escola Joso in Barcelona. After several years spent as an illustrator at Disney and designer in various companies, he created the art for the two-volume thriller La onzième plaie by Nicolas Tackian, published by Soleil in 2008 and 2009. Still for Soleil, he worked on the post-apocalyptic trilogy Dead Life by Jean-Charles Gaudin from 2011 to 2017, and the short series Clivages between 2019 and 2020, an adventure of a young woman in a civil war in Eastern Europe. All his plates are hand-drawn in direct colors.