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y separately published work icon Under-Earth single work   graphic novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Under-Earth
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'The inmates of an extensive underground prison struggle to build meaningful lives in a broken system, in the most ambitious graphic novel to date from rising indie star Chris Gooch (Bottled and Deep Breaths).

'Under-Earth takes place in a subterranean landfill, hollowed out to serve as a massive improvised prison. Sunken into the trash and debris of the past -- gameboys, iphones, coffee cups, old cars -- we follow two parallel stories.

'In the first, a new arrival struggles to adapt to the everyday violence, physical labour, and poverty of the prison city. Overwhelmed and alone, he finds a connection with a fellow inmate through an old, beat-up novel. While these two silent and uncommunicative men grow closer thanks to their book, the stress of their environment will test their new bond.

'Meanwhile, a pair of thieves pull off a risky job in exchange for the prisons' schematics and the promise of escape -- only to be betrayed by their employer. On the run with their hope for escape now gone, the two women set their minds to revenge. Yet as they lay their plans, their focus shifts from an obsession with the outside world to the life they have with each other.

'Equal parts sincerity and violence, Under-Earth explores humanity's inextinguishable drive to find meaning, connection, and even family -- and how fragile such constructions can be.' (Publication summary)

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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      IDW Publishing ,
      2021 .
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      Extent: 560p.
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      • Published: 19 January 2021

      ISBN: 9781603094771

Works about this Work

Under-Earth Comic Set in Subterranean Melbourne Imagines Post-capitalist Dystopian Australia Teresa Tan , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2020;

'In July 2016, while waiting for a flight home at LAX airport, Chris Gooch started devising Delforge — part exile colony, part subterranean garbage dump, in near-future Melbourne.' (Introduction)

Under-Earth Comic Set in Subterranean Melbourne Imagines Post-capitalist Dystopian Australia Teresa Tan , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , October 2020;

'In July 2016, while waiting for a flight home at LAX airport, Chris Gooch started devising Delforge — part exile colony, part subterranean garbage dump, in near-future Melbourne.' (Introduction)

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