HUNTER/GATHERER
An illustrated sci-fi creature thriller
Hired to hunt an alien.
Forced to question who the predator is.
Benjamin Percy Illustrated by Brent Schoonover
The discovery
When a tech billionaire brings a living predator back from the moon and it escapes on Earth, he recruits Axel Crossgate, the world’s greatest hunter and a man with whom he shares a dark past, to track a creature whose survival may mean humanity’s extinction.
The hunt
Where it walks, dead forests bloom.
What it touches may never be human again.
Axel follows its trail through the burning Pacific Northwest. The closer he gets, the less certain he is that he’s hunting the right enemy.
Screen potential
A scarred ex-Ranger hired to destroy an alien begins to suspect it may be Earth’s last chance. The hunt becomes a rescue.
It revives burned forests and wounded animals—and can turn a human body’s infections into a death sentence.
For film and television
Trevor Hurtz sees first contact as a trillion-dollar biotech asset. His need to own it puts humanity’s future in the hands of its least trustworthy custodian.
The hunt reunites Axel with Vashi, the daughter he abandoned after her mother’s death. Their fight to save one another gives the planetary stakes a bruised emotional center.
A NeoText novella
Benjamin Percy is the author of The Sky Vault and a writer of Wolverine, X-Force and Ghost Rider for Marvel. He co-wrote the Sundance selection Summering.
Brent Schoonover is a comic-book artist whose work includes Ant-Man, Howling Commandos and Batman ’66.