Pfeifer on MANEATER: The Fall of Mankind

Graphic novelist N. Pfeifer has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his computer-drawn, dystopian graphic novel MANEATER: The Fall of Mankind.Described as “a sexy, violent, neo-noir/cyberpunk graphic novel inspired by ’80s science-fiction,” the work draws its influences from 2000 AD, Blade Runner, anime and more. Here’s the elevator pitch:

Life in Metropolis One is stable until the arrival of a terrorist named Deity Marvelous, a woman who threatens to destroy every human male from the chromosome up with a destructive new virus called the MAle NEgation And TERrorizing Agent or MANEATER. The Metropolis One Police Department springs into the action, sending gifted young detective Ram Crasher to investigate. Can Crasher stop Marvelous from unleashing the virus and destroying mankind?

Pfeifer joined ComicBook.com to talk about the project, which has about three weeks left to go on its campaign. You can also check out the proposal video at the bottom of our conversation.

So was the dream that influenced this a recurring, single dream or an ongoing series of them? What made you decide to go with the CG-rendered art style? The character sketches on the Kickstarter blog obviously don’t look like that, so at some point were you thinking of doing a more traditonally-drawn version? Is this set in an alternate future where the Soviet Union is still around or is there an explanation as to why it re-forms prior to WW3?