EVERMIND #1

EVERMIND features brilliant, overlooked scientist Lucas Zhang who has spent his life chasing one breakthrough: the Neurolink, a technology that can transfer the human mind into a machine. It could mean the end of death itself. It could also mean the end of what makes us human. When Zhang's obsession collides with the paramilitary corporations who want his work weaponized, he and his activist daughter are driven to opposite sides of a war over the future, then forced back together to survive it.Brilliant scientist Lucas Zhang has invented a way to transfer human consciousness into advanced machines. Now, he and his activist daughter must save the world from paramilitary corporations intent on exploiting his work... while trapped in the bodies of a theme park mecha-gorilla and a pleasure-bot. Set in a near-future world of mecha gorillas, android operatives, and runaway ambition, EVERMIND is a 6-Issue sci-fi epic about a father, a daughter, and the price of living forever. EVERMIND is co-written by its creators, illustrator Sean Chen and actor-producer Daniel Wu. Sean Chen is an acclaimed comic artist with more than three decades of experience, known for defining runs on Valiant's X-O Manowar and Marvel's Iron Man, Wolverine, and Avengers. EVERMIND is his first major creator-owned work as both writer and artist. Daniel Wu is a Hong Kong-American actor, director, and producer with over 60 films across a 25-year career, known for AMC's Into the Badlands, Warcraft, and Disney+'s American Born Chinese. A lifelong sci-fi fan making his comics writing debut, Wu lent his own likeness to EVERMIND's protagonist, Lucas Zhang. Together, he and Chen are building an original franchise designed to live across comics, film, and television.Sean Chen is one of the most accomplished illustrators of his generation, with a career spanning more than three decades at the top of the industry. Discovered by the legendary Barry Windsor-Smith, he broke in at Valiant Comics during the 1990s boom; his debut, Rai and the Future Force #9, sold over 900,000 copies, and he went on to define the look of Valiant's flagship X-O Manowar alongside work on Harbinger and Bloodshot. He then found a long home at Marvel, where his celebrated multi-year run on Iron Man, plus standout work on Wolverine, Elektra, the Avengers, Nova, and X-Men: The End, cemented his reputation for dynamic storytelling and precise, architectural draftsmanship. With Evermind, his first major creator-owned work in partnership with Daniel Wu, Chen brings that full command of craft to an original vision, the science-fiction epic he co-created and illustrates.