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THE STORY
THE GRID WARS: CHAPTER ONE
is the first in an 8-part series of graphic novels that explores life in the year 2062 when half the United States' population is now in prison, locked up behind 22 million miles of an impenetrable Wall.
To pay for this mass incarceration, the National Penitentiary League (also known as the NPL) has launched the country’s newest, hottest bloodsport: THE GRID WARS.
Half of the prisoners who are sent to play will die in this game of near operatic brutality. But the prize for the winners is the one thing the unfortunate ones living behind the Wall all want: liberty.
The winners of The Grid Wars get to live out the rest of their days in freedom with their loved ones on the beautiful island of Kodiak off the Alaskan Coast.
Our story follows Austin Carter, a young star athlete of modest means who seemingly has everything going for him: a good life in the Free Zone, a woman he loves, and plans of college ahead of him.
But plans change when Austin’s division needs a power arm to lead their team to glory. Austin is set up, wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, and brought to prison to serve a life sentence. Austin is forced to make a choice: rot in prison for the rest of his days or play in The Grid Wars for the chance at freedom.
What would you do?
To answer that question, maybe you need to read this 64 page graphic novel...