Acid Box, a darkly comic adventure through club culture, spanning space and time.
Written by Sara Kenney, with art by James Devlin, Ria Grix, and Emma Vieceli, colors by Sofie Dodgson, and letters by Hassan Otsman-Elhaou.
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200 pages, paperback with french flaps, full colour throughout, 156 x 239mm
Jade Nyo just wants to listen to some music and to get wasted. Then, while out clubbing with her brother, she meets a trio of women who control portals through space and time, and give her an Acid Box, which controls geological features on earth. Now it’s all up to her to travel through time and avert global disaster. But the box is broken, and Jade travels through the past, present, and future in a quest to fix it, finding along the way friends who can help through music. And as she tries and tries to change things for the better, she finds that the work and pressure of changing history might be too much for just one person to fix. . . .
Telling a story that combines music, time travel, and adventure, Acid Box is a powerful work about the state of climate change around the globe, and a commentary on personal responsibility.
“Dancefloor history meets family history via psychic reality-skipping quest. Take your brain to another dimension. Pay close attention.” – Kieron Gillen, The Wicked + The Divine
“It’s a monster of a comic.” – Alex Paterson, The Orb
“I was too young to go out raving in the 90s, so I soaked up club culture via things like 2000ad and characters like Milton and Bradley, or through artists like Jamie Hewlett or Robert Bliss, and writers like Peter Milligan. The link between club culture and UK comics was such that 2000ad even had their own club column, so UK comic book culture will always be inextricably linked to the broader outsider dance music phenomenon that I’ve devoted my life to. Acid Box feels like a long-overdue return to that tradition, and it’s a really fun read.”
– Man Power, DJ & Producer
“Fun, insightful, off the beaten track, resonant, meaningful, original and skilful. Would match a Coldcut sound track. ;)” – Matt Black, Coldcut & Co-Founder Ninja Tune
“Love this—as addictive as a TB303 bass line, hits all the right notes.”
– Jon More, Coldcut & Co-Founder Ninja Tune
“A welcome depiction of the transcendental nature of electronic music culture where transformation is always possible and hope is carried by the poetry of sound.” – Justin Robertson, DJ, Broadcaster, Artist
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