We Promised Utopia is a sci-fi epic centered around charismatic idealist Isabel Bari and her development of the Equivalent Carbon Credit (ECC) which ties every element of the global economy to a carbon-based currency. The comic focuses on three separate eras of humanity: the rise of the ECC in present day, a utopian future, and a distant dystopia.
The era-spanning sci-fi epic returns in present day with fractures in Isabel Bari's poise after the early rollout of the carbon-based currency, the ECC. In the titular utopia, Mangus encounters surprising resistance in his investigation of the cryptic Yggdrasil, while in the far dystopian future, the family struggles to survive the first leg of their journey south.