Beaverton 2200: Part One

Beaverton 2200: Part One

by Charlie Bewer Author, Matt Dan Author and Hector Estrada Author

Beaverton 2200 is Portland meets Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 classic animated film. 

This futuristic cyberpunk comic takes place in Neo-Beaverton, a city-state run by the monolithic shoe corporation of Nike. Moses Estrada, a Sanitation Technician at Cedar Hills Megaplex, struggles to pay bills while supporting his ailing mother and finds himself getting mixed up with a resistance group known as AntiNi. Moses is forced to choose between the life he's always known and the revolution on the horizon.

This story serves as a allegory of the current dialogue surrounding the issues of police brutality, racism, corporate control, and resistance.