Oct 7 2006
The year: 2068 A.D. The place: Earthlight, the first international moon colony. It's a domed complex of cold steel and carbon nanotubes, sterile and metallic, run by ironclad rules and regulations. Population: 228 adults—and 42 kids. Earthlight is a very expensive and controversial project, and life there is tense and difficult. Safety regulations must be obeyed to the letter. And the kids' parents are all under enormous pressure, which both contributes to the burden they place on their children and means they have very little family time in their schedules. So the kids must find their own way most of the time...And sometimes, they get into trouble—as in the case of a recent catastrophic accident where five adults and three children died. So the U.N. hires Aaron Cole, a new administrator, to oversee Earthlight. Cole's wife, Leyla, is to establish and operate Earthlight Academy, the colony's first organized school—with their fourteen-year-old son, Damon, as one of the first students.
The high-tech, high-stress setting of Earthlight's lunar colony reflects and magnifies the problems of regular kids today. Like their parents, these teens must forge their own forms of survival and cooperation—if they're to succeed in this harsh new world.
Earthlight is one of the many new online mangas from TOKYOPOP. Created by writer Stuart Moore (Firestorm, JSA: Classified, Wolverine, Stargate: Atlantis) and artist Christopher Schons (Lucifer, Chosen), Earthlight is the story of Damon Cole, the new kid at the Colony and son of Aaron Cole, Earthlight's new administrator. And if that isn't bad enough, his mom is the founder and only teacher at the first Earthlight school. And you thought you had a hard time fitting in!
Rated for 13 and up, Earthlight hits your favorite manga shelves on October 10, 2006. You can place your pre-order here or grab a sneak peek of Volume 1.
