Acid Box Blends Time Travel, '90s Nostalgia, and Music Culture

We astatine IGN person agelong been large fans of writer Kieron Gillen, whose Immortal X-Men won IGN's Best Comic Book Series oregon Original Graphic Novel of 2022 award. So erstwhile Gillen sings the praises of different comic, we're ever going to beryllium up and instrumentality notice. That's wherefore Acid Box, a caller graphic caller heavy steeped successful the UK's '90s euphony scene, is present connected our radar this year. Gillen writes, "Dancefloor past meets household past via psychic reality-skipping quest. Take your encephalon to different dimension. Pay adjacent attention.”

With the crowdfunding run for Acid Box present live, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of this stylish graphic novel. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Acid Box is simply a collaboration betwixt writer Sara Kenney and artists James Devlin, Emma Vieceli, and Ria Grix, with colors by Sofie Dodgson, and lettering by Hassan Otsman-Elhaou. The publication is being published done Avery Hill.

Here's the authoritative statement for Acid Box:

In Acid Box, Jade Nyo conscionable wants to perceive to immoderate euphony and to get wasted. And then, precocious 1 nighttime portion retired clubbing with her brother, Jade meets a mysterious trio of women who telephone themselves the Liminals, who archer Jade she indispensable assistance them avert a planetary disaster. They springiness Jade an Acid Box, which controls portals done abstraction and time. Only the Acid Box is broken, and erstwhile Jade travels backmost successful clip to 1994, she discovers that changing past mightiness beryllium excessively overmuch for conscionable 1 idiosyncratic to fix....

“Is your blessed spot a bouncing creation floor?” said Kenney successful a statement. “Are you nostalgic for the parties of the ‘90s? Are you determined to person amusive adjacent connected the brink of disaster? Do messy main characters springiness you life? Is supporting creation communities and younker entree to those communities important to you? Do you conscionable emotion comics? If you reply yes to immoderate of these questions, you volition not privation to miss Acid Box.”

"Telling a communicative that combines music, clip travel, and adventure, Acid Box is an affectional graphic caller astir the authorities of clime alteration astir the globe, and an important commentary connected idiosyncratic responsibility," said Avery Hill Publisher Ricky Miller. "When Sara contacted maine astir Avery Hill getting progressive successful putting retired this book, I was instantly attracted to the themes and taxable matter. It’s a communicative astir power, control, and nature, arsenic good arsenic dancing, recreational drugs and creation euphony successful the '90s! As idiosyncratic who is from the '90s I could place with this, though I was excessively nerdy to spell to raves; I was astir apt astatine location speechmaking comics. This is simply a truly enjoyable work for those who were determination successful the '90s and adjacent for those who weren’t determination (and if you retrieve it past you astir apt weren’t determination anyway, right?)."

The Kickstarter run for Acid Box is unrecorded now.

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