Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus

The New York Times-bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his comics debut with this time-hopping horror thriller about far-future Indigenous outcasts on a mission to kill Christopher Columbus.

The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America.

Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on a bloody, one-way mission to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus before he reaches the so-called New World. But there are steep costs to disrupting the timeline, and taking down an icon isn't an easy task for an academic with no tactical training and only a wavering moral compass to guide him. As the horror of the task ahead unfolds and Tad's commitment is tested, his actions could trigger a devastating new fate for his friends and the future.

Join Stephen Graham Jones and artist Davide Gianfelice for Earthdivers, Vol. 1 (collecting Earthdivers issues #1-6), the beginning of an unforgettable ongoing sci-fi slasher spanning centuries of America's Colonial past to explore the staggering forces of history and the individual choices we make to survive it.

Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 10.20h x 6.60w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9798887240459


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 33
Library Journal 08/01/2023 pg. 85

About the Author
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times best-selling author of nearly thirty novels and collections, and there's some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are My Heart Is a Chainsaw and The Babysitter Lives and Earthdivers. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.

Davide Gianfelice is a veteran in the comic book industry having worked for every major publisher, including Marvel Comics, DC, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, and more. Gianfelice is best known for his work on Northlanders with Brian Wood for DC Comics.