In the year 2062, half of the United States population is now in prison, locked up behind an impenetrable wall. To pay for our country's mass incarceration, the National Penitentiary League launched a new blood sport that has swept the nation: The Grid Wars. Many who dare play will die, but the fierce few who win are granted the one prize coveted by all those who live behind the wall: Liberty. Because if you are the unlucky ones to live behind the wall, there's only one way out: Play for Freedom.
In the year 2062, half of the United States population is now in prison, locked up behind an impenetrable wall. To pay for our country's mass incarceration, the National Penitentiary League launched a new blood sport that has swept the nation: The Grid Wars. Many who dare play will die, but the fierce few who win are granted the one prize coveted by all those who live behind the wall: Liberty. Because if you are the unlucky ones to live behind the wall, there's only one way out: Play for Freedom.
The Grid Wars: Chapter One is the first in an eight part graphic novel series.
In the year 2062, half of the United States population is now in prison, locked up behind an impenetrable wall. To pay for our country's mass incarceration, the National Penitentiary League launched a new blood sport that has swept the nation: The Grid Wars. Many who dare play will die, but the fierce few who win are granted the one prize coveted by all those who live behind the wall: Liberty. Because if you are the unlucky ones to live behind the wall, there's only one way out: Play for Freedom.
The Grid Wars: Chapter One follows Austin Carter, a young star athlete of modest means who seemingly has everything going for him: a good life in the Free Zone, a woman he loves, and plans of college ahead of him.
But plans change when Austin’s division needs a power arm to lead their team to glory. Austin is set up, wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, and brought to prison to serve a life sentence. Austin is forced to make a choice: rot in prison for the rest of his days or play in The Grid Wars for the chance at freedom.