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Union file / active authority
Union Corporation
Glass offices, private armies, public language. The future arrives with a boardroom signature.
Marsili Ink presents
It was built to make collapse profitable.
ENTER THE ARENA
In a fractured America rebuilt by corporate power and labor empires, survival is measured in credits, loyalty, and spectacle.
A near-future collapse graphic novel.
75+ pages. Full color.
Limited edition launch coming soon.
Private development file
The arena opens soon.
Get early pages, production updates, and first access when the signal goes live.
Opening transmission
Before the arena, there is the first blast.
The story begins in rubble, drone fire, and children running through a city already being converted into a battlefield.
Reform became membership.
Membership became obedience.
The Machine
Every promise has a lock on it.
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Membership ledger / conditional aid
The Labor Combine
Jobs, food, medical care, membership. Help becomes a gate. The gate becomes a leash.
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Broadcast asset / public event
The Coliseum
Prisoners, cameras, crowds, fireworks. The system stops hiding what it is and sells tickets.
Public works bulletin
The machine has a face.
Before the arena takes the body, it teaches the crowd to call the cage a project.
The crowd never asks
who owns the blood.
Aid is a gate.
Food lines, job credits, relief centers, waiting lists. The more the system offers, the more it owns.
Sport is a sentence.
The condemned are given costumes, cameras, and a crowd loud enough to drown out what happened to them.
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Labor becomes currency.
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Relief becomes control.
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Power still needs a crowd.
COLOSSEUM PERSONNEL
The team bringing the arena to the page.
William Perdomo
Creator / Writer
Kristian Rossi
Art
Marco Galli
Letters / Edits
Jason Crager
Additional Production