Exclusive Preview: Boxed
Writer Mark Sable and artist Jeremy Haun are teaming up for Boxed, a psychologically thrilling science fiction graphic novel about AI gone awry. Boxed arrives December 12, 2023 from Amazon’s comiXology Originals exclusive digital content line. The story features colors by Nick Filardi and letters by Thomas Mauer.
Boxed is set in a near future when more and more AI have begun to grow smarter and more dangerous at an alarmingly rapid rate. Former FBI counterintelligence agent Frank Savage is a RAID (Rapid Response, Artificial Intelligence Division) Special Agent who is called in when an AI is suspected of having evolved or deviated from its programming. If he determines there’s any threat, he shuts down and “boxes” the AI – storing it in a vast, electromagnetically shielded underground cavern where it can’t be reactivated or tampered with externally.
When Hippocrates, the C.D.C.’s (Center for Disease Control) AI in charge of pandemic response, goes rogue and starts a lockdown over a non-existent pandemic, agent Savage is tasked with stopping it. He is forced to team with Pandora, a counter-intelligence AI he boxed years ago…but not before she seduced him.
Boxed is a grounded, sci-fi techno-thriller that is based on very real fears about AI that is very of our time.
