What to read this weekend: Warm Fusion brings biotech and body horror to a gritty NYC of the future

It’s taken me a while to get around to any of the titles from DSTLRY, the relatively new publisher of creator-owned comics, but I finally jumped in this week with the series Warm Fusion, and wow are we off to a good start. Warm Fusion is described as “a dark, sci-fi thriller, mixing the body horror of David Cronenberg with the bleak urban future of Blade Runner.” It’s set in a future version of New York City where it always rains, and birth defects are common in the population due to a medical disaster caused by a pharmaceutical company. The story follows detective Jarrod Hannover and escort Vin Young (aka Snow White) on an investigation into a series of strange and brutal killings targeting brothel workers. At the same time, we’re introduced to the immediately suspicious Nicholas Fleischer, a scientist working on an experimental treatment called Warm Fusion that appears to spur the growth of new limbs where they were previously absent. This series has so much going for it, from the ... Read full article.