A Wave Blue World has announced a new original young adult graphic novel – AVEREE. 

AVEREE is one average girl’s mission through a world of near-future tech to take back control of her life, in a fun philosophical adventure! Check out the full solicitation below:

A world where social rank rules and your status sets your inevitable course in life – sound familiar? Just imagine if it was all controlled by an app! In Averee’s world, the usual trials of making your way into adulthood come with the added stress of Ranked, a ubiquitous and all-knowing tech innovation that awards you points for socially acceptable behavior and takes them away when you don’t conform. It seems fun enough at first, but it becomes much more than a game when Averee’s rank suddenly drops overnight. Now she’s getting hassled at school, blocked from her favorite restaurants, and her mom is out of a job.

Luckily for our hero, she has Zoe – a bottom-ranked BFF – whose open disdain for all things Ranked makes her the perfect accomplice on what’s about to be the heist of the century: they’re staging a raid on the app’s corporate HQ to set things right and its spokesperson, the virtual popstar Pretty Kitty, is in their sights. With Averee’s crush Luke in tow, these friends are in way over their heads and they’re about to learn that the “right” they’re fighting for may be on a global scale.

AVEREE features an up-and-coming female creative team including, Stephanie Phillips who has written titles such as “The Butcher of Paris”, “Artemis and the Assassin”, “A Man Among Ye”, and Heavy Metal’s “Tarna;” as well as Marika Cresta who has drawn “X-Men” and “Star Wars” for Marvel Comics as well as teh 5-time Ringo Award nominated series “Forgotten Home.”

This sci-fi fantasy opens up the discussion around the pros and cons of technology and social media as well as addresses issues of bullying and social hierarchies.

Check out the book trailer below!