Melody Parker is losing her mind. She’s living on the streets of Seattle during the WTO protests of 1999. She is seeing things. Androids. Aliens. Pigs in high fashion. And a creature named Echo—one of the Sustained: elemental beings with the power to alter reality through music. She invites Melody to join her as she brings about the end of the world. As Melody tries to escape this strange woman, suppressed memories from across vast spans of time flood into her awareness, bringing her very identity into question. You don’t want to miss this stunning new release from writer Rick Quinn and music-comic-specialist Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound).
Melody and Ada are traveling inside a song, learning more about Melody’s powers and their shared traumas with the help of a dreaming Russian novelist. In another time, Leon is in Paris, recording an album with George Parker—who introduces him to the Prism Ensemble, a fragmented, decentralized collective of musicians, artists, philosophers, and writers who have been working together in secret throughout the entire 20th century. Meanwhile, prior to the dawn of everything, Echo dances blissfully in an Eden of silence, unknowingly entering the eternal war of sound between her and George.