Runaway Nun

2097, A.D. In the aftermath of series of asteroid collisions, America has fallen under Church Law. The Statue of Liberty carries a cross instead of a torch, and the Holy Infant is about to replace the tablets… In the West, tribes of pagan diggers are chased down by God’s marines: Jesuit crusaders led by Father Elano, the Church’s top enforcer. In the East, stuck in mid-Atlantic, looms the Harlequin Island: a floating colony of self-exiled libertarians led by Sir Gottfrey. A maverick genius who lives with his organs outside his body, Gottfrey kills time bioengineering the past’s famous and infamous—the so-called replikas—for his less than noble purposes. But he’s about to cross the line: his next show will be a highly authentic Easter Pageant starring the J-Clone, a Jesus look-alike cloned from a drop of blood off the Turin Shroud. When Double-M, a replika of Marilyn Monroe (and J-Clone’s girlfriend), runs away from Harlequin Island and alerts the Holy See about the upcoming show, all the bells start tolling! Crying “Anathema!” the Pope commissions Elano to kidnap the J-Clone and spoil the libertarians’ sacrilegious masquerade.

Half dystopian saga and half absurdist satire, MISBEGOTTEN is an exercise in genre bending wrapped around a Holy Grail journey through a world immersed in apocalyptic landscapes and bio-punk iconography.