Prologue:
In a not-so-distant future, mankind is all but mysteriously wiped out. All that is left however, are the unkept ruins of cities and human debris – but also the next step in evolution: Artificial Intelligence
In this second issue of Energy Quest we follow a now homeless Zero, the mechanical teddy bear, scavenging yet again for batteries after a brutal attack from earth’s dominant species, hostile artificial intelligence – Hive
Now on an obsessive hunt for the anomaly – autonomous, resourceful Zero, the Hive have a powerful weapon at their disposal: a corrupted army of electronics and bots left from the age of humans, dispatched as avatars and foot soldiers of the Hive with a single mission – to pursue and corrupt the raggedy bear until there is only one formidable intelligent being left on the planet – the singular minded Hive itself…
Peter Magro is an illustrator and comic artist who has worked on productions such as local graphic novel S.T.E.A.M.: Island Under Siege (2015) (Story by Ashley Eric Peschel), Youth Guarantee Malta on A Guidebook to SEC Revision Classes (2018), as well as two short graphic novels for adolescents (Back in Time with Nannu Salv (2019) (Written by Liz Mallia) and Taħt (2019) (written by Ivan Ellul Xuereb).
Peter has also written, illustrated and published his first solo comic book series ‘Energy Quest’ in 2022, and will be launching the sequel at this year’s Malta Comic Con, following up the adventures of Zero, the mechanical teddy bear in a post-apocalyptic future.
