How does author Ted Anderson describe his new series from Aftershock, Moth & Whisper?
Moth & Whisper is a cyberpunk thriller, set in a near-future dystopian city where the cars are self-driving and the skies are filled with facial-recognition drones. Corporate employees live in well-defended enclaves that might as well be private fiefdoms. Anonymity is impossible; privacy is a thing of the past. In this nightmare of a city, everybody knows that the two best thieves are the Moth and the Whisper, two infiltrators of unparalleled skill, two ghosts with no faces. But nobody knows that the original Moth and Whisper disappeared six months ago, or that the new Moth and Whisper are one and the same person: the child of the Moth and Whisper. Our main character is a highly skilled teenager whose parents raised them to be the best thief in the world, but can they survive on their own? Can they find out what happened to their parents? And can they live up to the reputations of the Moth and the Whisper?
Moth & Whisper is a story about identity: who we are and who gets to decide that for us. Our protagonist, Niki, is a genderqueer teenager trying to fill their parents’ shoes while also trying to establish their own identity. I’m excited for readers to meet Niki; they’re a complex character in a tough situation, navigating a hostile world using their wits, their skills, and a variety of high-tech gadgets. When your face is just another commodity to be bought and sold, the most dangerous person is the one wearing a mask.”
Official PR follows:
MOTH & WHISPER #1 / $3.99 / 32 pages / Color / ON SALE 09.12.18
Writer: Ted Anderson
Artist: Jen Hickman
Letterer: Marshall Dillon
Cover A: Jen Hickman
Cover B: Jorge CoronaNEW SERIES!
Everyone knows that the two greatest thieves in the city are the Moth and the Whisper. Very few know that the Moth and the Whisper disappeared six months ago. And what nobody knows is that the new Moth and Whisper are actually one person pretending to be both of them. One supremely skilled but uncertain young genderfluid thief: Niki, the child of the Moth and the Whisper.
Niki has been trained by their parents in the arts of stealth and infiltration, but they’re still just a teenager, and now they’re alone, searching for their parents in a hostile cyberpunk dystopia. Corporations run the streets while crime lords like Ambrose Wolfe run the alleys—identity is a commodity and privacy is impossible. The truth about Niki’s parents and their disappearance is out there, but can Niki survive long enough to find it?
A Young Adult cyberpunk thriller starring a genderqueer super-thief, MOTH & WHISPER is the brainchild of Ted Anderson (My Little Pony, Adventure Time) and Jen Hickman (Jem and the Holograms, The Dead), that just HAD to be told at AfterShock!
