Business As Usual Graphic Novel

Texas, 2035.

Somewhere, deep in the Chihuahuan desert, military officials and state-sanctioned members of the free press attend the ribbon cutting ceremony for America’s first autonomous, off-the-grid, I.C.E. detention center.

(The necessity for such a facility arose in 2029, when the newly merged Democratic-Republican Party unanimously voted to dedicate the entirety of the lonestar state’s floundering power grid to the mining of cryptocurrency.)

As the generators are powered on, the electric thrum of the state-of-the-art equipment radiates deep into the earth, disturbing a colony of enormous, blind, carnivorous, subterranean snakes, sending them into a frenzy…and towards the surface.

A group of anarcho punks intent on taking the newly-opened facility down to free the detainees within approach as the sun goes down.

If infighting and situationship drama don’t keep the group from accomplishing their goal, they’ll be presented with one of two realities: an end at the hands of the state or the gnashing of teeth.

Is there really a difference?

BUSINESS AS USUAL is a social satire comic, in the same vein as IDIOCRACY and DEATH RACE 2000, created by Mark Bouchard & Shelby Criswell. Art and Letters by Shelby Criswell. Script by Mark Bouchard. Edits by Lauren Lavín.

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