When fertility plummets and illegal cloning rises, a police force is created to combat a violent, unintended side effect in Skin Police. Oni Press has provided a preview of the four-issue science fiction/action series, which is written by Jordan Thomas (The Man from Maybe) with art by Daniel Gete (Über). The first issue will be in comic shops in October 2024.
By the year 2142, fertility levels are at a low, giving rise to a black market for cloned babies. Would-be parents provide their genetic material to create the babies, but there’s a terrible side effect. Three out of four clones turn into psychotic murderers known as “dupes.” To combat the threat, the United Nations of Europe has assembled the Duplicate Identification and Capture Division (nicknamed the Skin Police) to find the dupes and stop the violence.
“What if we lived in a society filled with ticking time bombs that could go off without warning at any moment?” Thomas said. “Now imagine these lurking vessels of death and destruction also had hopes, dreams, feelings, and emotions. That is the setup for Skin Police. A world where illegal clones live amongst us often not knowing what they are or how close they are to ‘popping’ and turning into adrenaline-fueled, hallucinating, violent maniacs.
“The ethical conundrum around a special government task force given permission to deal with these unfortunate creations by any means necessary, even though for all intents and purposes they are as human as the people sent to end their existence, sits at the root of our new action-packed sci-fi series,” Thomas said. “The questions superstar agent Brisson Eckis is forced to confront as terrible truths come to light set the fuse for a story packed with constant peril, government conspiracies, and impossible choices all set in a future Europe dictatorship where no one can be trusted and your best friend could turn into your worst enemy in a split second.”
Skin Police #1 has covers by Gete, Nick Pitarra (The Manhattan Projects), Adam Pollina (X-Force), and Shaky Kane (The Bulletproof Coffin). It goes on sale on October 2.
