A.D.: After Death

"A dream matchup between longtime friends and prolific comics creators Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire, .A.D. is the kind of format-breaking collaboration neither could achieve alone. Mixing long prose passages and lush pen-and-ink-and-watercolor illustrations with traditional comic book storytelling, the book is set in a future where a cure for death has been discovered, and people are now unable to age or die. Yet for all its sci-fi world building and heist adventures, A.D. portrays one man’s experiences as he ruminates on his past and the people tethering him to a life that now unfolds slowly and endlessly. The result is an imaginative and personal story about the elasticity of time, the elusiveness of memory and the inevitability of change."