In the far future, our sun has begun its inevitable expansion process, scorching Earth's surface with extreme radiation. Humanity is sent to the lowest depths of the sea, waiting in protected domed cities, while probes scour for inhabitable planets.
A decade ago, 300,000 citizens of Philadelphia were suddenly lost in Oblivion. The government made every attempt to recover them, but after many years, they gave up. Nathan Cole...won't.
In a return to the literary and thematic territory of JEFF LEMIRE's breakthrough graphic novel Essex County, ROYAL CITY follows Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up.
RICK REMENDER and WES CRAIG reunite one last time to bring everyone's favorite assassin undergrads into a new era, but old habits die hard, and old grudges die even harder.
