| PORTLAND, OR (January 14th, 2024) – Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to present the first look inside SOMA – the highly anticipated original graphic novel from award-winning writer Fernando Llor (Ojos Grises, Subnormal: Una Historia de Acoso Escolar) and acclaimed illustrator and CULT OF THE LAMB character designer / cover artist Carles Dalmau(Lucid Lucy, Cult of the Lamb)! Invading stores this February, SOMA is a dazzling science-fiction adventure about creativity and companionship during times of peril.
Maya is a comic book artist in the middle of a creative crisis. She’s constantly stressed about deadlines and feels like she’s not doing the type of work she loves. In between trying to fight her writer’s block and doling out advice to her best friend on how to finally land a date, Maya receives an unexpected visitor: Soma, an extraterrestrial alien who crashlands in Maya’s living room. Soma delivers a message to Maya, warning her that an alien invasion from his own kind is fast approaching, and he needs her help to stop it!
Featuring the English language debut of award-winning Spanish writer Fernando Llor alongside the energetic and vibrant cartooning of artist Carles Dalmau – internationally recognized for his artwork and character designs on the hit video game franchise CULT OF THE LAMB, developed by Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital – SOMAis an exhilarating, graphic novel adventure about finding purpose and forging unexpected friendships under the most impossible circumstances … like the impending end of the world.
Find SOMA wherever comics and graphic novels are sold on February 25, 2025 – only from Oni Press. |
