Bleedback:
A destructive feedback loop that amplifies instability with each cycle and, without intervention, tears apart the system that created it.
One man must undo the world he made to save the daughter he lost.
Andrei was the visionary of his time. He designed the complex containment systems intended to test artificial intelligence before it touched reality. He believed his work was the key to human survival. He was mistaken.
The containment fractured. The Bleedback event upended every nation on Earth. Andrei vanished into the aftermath. He is now a ghost living on the edges of a paranoid security state.
He exists only to protect his teenage daughter, Angela. She is a firebrand passionate about the rising revolution. She believes the world can be healed rather than just contained.
Then his past comes back to haunt him. Angela is taken as leverage by those who know who Andrei really is. To save his daughter, he is forced to return to the nightmare he abandoned. He must descend into the ruins to recover a buried technology that should have stayed lost.
He Buried the Future.
Now They Are Forcing Him to Dig It Up.
The Future Now Connection
Future Now is a global collective of creators using storytelling to explore the challenges of today through visions of tomorrow.
Bleedback was written before the collective existed. While this graphic novel offers a darker, dystopian perspective, its worldbuilding laid the essential groundwork for the broader Source: 2084 universe.
Step into Future Now and explore the stories that are reimagining tomorrow.
The containment is broken.
The story is just beginning.
He buried the past to save his family. Now he has to dig it up.
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