In existence, there are disturbing coincidences as in Tomorrow when screenwriter Peter Milligan imagines a virus destroying all civilization a few months before covid. Will a vaccine be found before the end of humanity?
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As in Milligan's previous title , Tomorrow begins with a blow to the stomach: Oscar Fuentes, a virtuoso cello player finds his mother dead and then, as he leaves the building, several other corpses litter the ground. However, he does not shed any tears but remains frozen and his thoughts are blocked on a score that he has trouble playing. The reader is totally disturbed before realizing that Oscar is neuro-atypical. Soon after, he left on foot to join his twin sister, Cira, yet located on the other side of the United States. Tomorrow reveals the cause of this hecatomb. A computer virus has passed from components to the human body and is causing disaster across the world. However, adults are more affected than children, who are used to games and the internet. The miners then suddenly become the leaders. In this world in transition, they emancipate themselves from the codes imposed by adult society and morality. Gangs of teenagers create bloody rites of passage. For better and most often worse, they become adults without landmarks.
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The first chapters of Tomorrow alternate between the intimate and the global. The reader follows, through several characters, different reactions to the pandemic and discovers through them how the world collapses. Treacy is the first to discover the causes of the massacre because this African-American is responsible for cybersecurity. He leaves the crisis meeting to warn his family. Conversely, company colleagues in team building in the middle of the desert are not aware of anything but realize that something is wrong when they are shot. This mosaic of characters is a little sketched in so few pages. It is also regrettable that the cartoonist Jesús Hervás is not at the level of this very broad scenario. Admittedly, the reading is easy but the style lacks originality. The screenplay focuses on youth. A football team from a private school escapes unscathed from a bus accident. Their very rich captain becomes the leader and still hopes to bring private jets to retrieve them but his spirit is gradually cracking. Oscar and Cira are the most successful. They illustrate the opposition between civilization and savagery. This complete account edited by Delcourt avoids clichés about youth. No, children are naturally not gentle. Far from being better, a world ruled by them turns out to be a very violent nightmare from the start. This disillusioned vision of youth in an action story evokes the French series Seul et Sa majesté des mouches is quoted. Written by Peter Milligan before the epidemic, Tomorrow is published during and this is felt by the very dark tone that settles over the pages. Tomorrow is a choral and apocalyptic tale that demonstrates that it only takes a keyboard for the adult world to collapse as easily as a house of cards. Alas, teenagers are no more sensible than their elders… If you enjoyed this text, you can find two other chronicles by the same screenwriter American Ronin and Britannia.
