★ From the minds of debut writer Joni Hägg and superstar artist Stipan Morian (20th Century Men), with colorist Rope Mann and Eisner-winning letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou。
★ Making a thunderous entrance with an epic opening chapter brimming with heartfelt emotion, courage, and breathtaking spectacle, here comes the most thrilling steampunk adventure of the winter.

The Coalition is a city of wonder in the deep north, but it is ruled by the cruel Governor Glass and his factory lords. Coal is the lifeline of the city, and for honest workers like young Peggy Stones, life can be hard because of the nefarious quota. To get extra coal at the end of the year, you must be bad, every day! Peggy’s life is thrown into chaos when she is imprisoned and sent into exile, which begins a harrowing journey to the ends of the world to find answers that could change the world!

Jonny Hager (Writer)
Jonny Hager is a comic book writer and poet based in Helsinki, Finland. He holds a master’s degree in theology and currently works as a civil servant. Over the years, his work has appeared in independent comics anthologies and on various online platforms. This book marks his first full-length graphic novel.

Stipan Morian (Illustrator)
Before leaving his hometown in 1988 at the age of fifteen, Stipan had lived in several countries and cities. In pre-war Sarajevo, he led a vibrant, energetic life filled with joy. A few months after the war broke out, Stipan, along with his brother and mother, moved to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. His next role was running animation workshops at the Vodnikova domačija family center in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he traveled every weekend to support refugees from Bosnia. In those early days, he took part in the punk movement’s occupation of the Yugoslav Army headquarters, which was transformed into the Metelkova City Autonomous Cultural Center, and even held an underground comics exhibition there. In 1993, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. The following year, Stipan went to Brussels, Belgium, to study animated filmmaking with friends at the Atelier Graphoui studio. Over the next two decades, together with his stonemason brothers, he created animated films, painted, designed stage sets, and restored Renaissance stone buildings.
Stipan co-created the Image Comics series “20th Century Men” with Dennis Kempter, serving as the artist. He lives in Croatia with his family and, whenever possible, escapes the capital for a vacation on one of the islands.