Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future

by Duncan Jones, Alex de Campi, Duncan Fegredo (Illustrator), r.m. Guéra (Illustrator), Pia Guerra (Illustrator)

Overview

"A long and bloody road trip, one well worth taking." —AIPT

Set in the same world as the films MOON and MUTE, Madi is a cerebral cyberpunk graphic novel about a team of veterans who have taken on corporate mercenary work to pay for the upkeep of technological enhancements that have turned them into human drones.

Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain’s elite J-Squad, is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in bills for her cybernetics’ upkeep. When she takes an off-the-books job that promises to eliminate her and her sister’s debt, the corporate secret she’s hired to steal is not at all what she expects... and she finds herself on the run from everyone she’s ever known. In a globe-spanning adventure from Shanghai to Soho, Madi has to stay one step ahead of the giant corporations closing in on her from all sides.

Madi is the third story in director Duncan Jones’ Mooniverse following the films Moon and Mute and features stunning art from a murderer’s row of comic greats: Pia Guerra, Simon Bisley, Annie Wu, Glenn Fabry, James Stokoe, and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534328051
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	07/22/2025
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 10.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Duncan Jones is a British advertising and film director, best known for his BAFTA winning film MOON, epic game-based fantasy movie WARCRAFT and his other science fiction films SOURCE CODE & MUTE. He is presently staying safely locked up at his home, waiting for it to be safe to go out and make ROGUE TROOPER of 2000AD fame with Rebellion Studios. Duncan is answerable to his wife, Rodene, his two kids, Stenton 4 and Zowie 2, and his dog, who takes her privacy very seriously after a scamming incident, and wishes to remain anonymous.

Alex de Campi writes comics. She is best known for her critically-acclaimed teen survival thriller NO MERCY and the groundbreaking, digital-native comic VALENTINE. Her latest work is the spy noir miniseries MAYDAY. She was nominated for an Eisner for her first comic work, Smoke, and it's all been downhill from there. Alex also directs music videos, and has worked with acts as diverse as Grand Duchy (Frank Black / Violet Clark), Joan As Police Woman, and Amanda Palmer to the retro-fabulous Puppini Sisters.

Alex's background is a three-whisky conversation and involves several continents. She is a single mother of an awesome daughter; they live in the Stephen Kingdom (Downeast Maine) with two dogs. She has an opinion on nearly everything. You can peruse them, along with stupid photos and memes, at @alexdecampi on most social media.

Duncan Fegredo has been drawing comics since (noncommittal grunt), his most well-known works being his collaborations with Mike Mignola on Mignola’s Hellboy. Those works include Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm & The Fury, and The Midnight Circus, all published by Dark Horse Comics. Earlier significant works include Enigma with writer Peter Milligan (Vertigo), Jay & Silent Bob with writer/director Kevin Smith and more recently MPH with writer and iconoclast Mark Millar (Image books). A step outside comics saw Fegredo work as lead storyboard artist on Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH movie, and he’d like to do more. Fegredo is currently working on a new Hellboy volume, but as of this time is unsure if he’s allowed to give the name away. Suffice to say at some stage things will go BOOM!

r.m. Guéra is a Serbian comic book creator based in Spain. A frequent collaborator of the writer Jason Aaron, their most recent project is the Biblical fiction series The Goddamned.

Pia Guerra is a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her editorial cartoon work. She is also an award-winning comic book creator, best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man, along with Black Canary, Hellblazer, Torchwood, and Doctor Who.

Annie Wu is the creator of Dead Guy Fan Club (date TBA) and co-creator/co-artist on Two Graves (out now), both with Image Comics. Annie also contributed to comic series like Black Canady with DC and Hawkeye with Marvel. Other clients include Vertigo, DSTLRY, Skybound, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, IDW, and Archie Comics.

Annie has also done extensive work for Netflix Animation and Warner Bros. Animation, including acting as color stylist, storyboard artist, and character designer for Adult Swim's The Venture Bros., produced by Titmouse.

Annie's illustration clients include Benefit Cosmetics, CBS, Chronicle Books, Disney Lucasfilm Press, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, O The Oprah Magazine, Popular Science, Showtime, Simon & Schuster, The Washington Post, Time Out, and WIRED.

Dylan Teague is a comic artist based in Cardiff. He’s worked mainly for 2000ad, drawing interiors and covers. He’s also done work for DC Comics, working on Batman and Jonah Hex.

Dylan has also branched out into the European Market producing three albums two for Delcourt and one for Kennes Editions. More recently Dylan was part of the lineup in Duncan Jones’s graphic novel MADI. This was the third part in his Moon trilogy.

You can find his stuff in 2000ad almost every week but he also does illustration work for film and TV.

Glenn Fabry is a classic 2000 AD artist, best known for his innovative and highly detailed work on Slaine, though he has also illustrated Judge Dredd and a Future Shock, not to mention part of the Batman/Judge Dredd crossover story 'Die Laughing'. Fabry's best-known work outside the Galaxy's Greatest Comic is almost certainly the full run of covers he painted for Preacher. However, his career is split between covers and sequential work, and he has also contributed to A1, The Authority, Global Frequency, Hellblazer, The Scarab, Swamp Thing and Transmetropolitan.

Lorenzo Ceccotti (aka LRNZ) is an Italian artist based in Rome.

He works in different fields of visual creativity: graphic design, motion graphics, animation, illustration and comics. Founder of the SUPERAMICI collective. Professor at ISIA Roma Design.

Eduardo Ocaña was born in Madrid, in 1974. He finished his studies in Technical Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Those days, he was in a hardcore punk band too. He was Professor of Art in several academies and has have taught drawing courses for design companies. He has been working for more than 15 years as a comic book artist in the Franco-Belgian market of Bande dessinée ,working with publishers like Les Humanoïdes Associés (on the book Messiah Complex with Alex de Campi), Casterman, Robinson or Delcourt. He has worked on the trilogy Les carnets de Darwin with Runberg for the Belgian publisher Le Lombard and has been part of the artists that have participated in Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future, the sci-fi graphic novel by Duncan Jones and Alex de Campi. He still listens to punk rock music.

David López is a Spanish comic artist born in Gran Canaria, Spain, known for his amazing character design and ability to create some of the most incredible cover art in the industry. He has been nominated for some of the most renowned industry awards, including the Eisner Awards and the Harvey Awards for his art on Mystic. His work for Image Comics includes Blackhand & Ironhead and MADI: Once Upon a Time in the Future.

After 10 years of encouraging London teenagers to draw anything other than comics, Christian Ward is now a multi-Eisner Award winning comic book artist and writer.

He is best known for his cosmic space operas ODY-C (co-created with Matt Fraction) and Invisible Kingdom (co-created with G. Willow Wilson). He was also the artist on the acclaimed Marvel comics series Black Bolt (with Saladin Ahmed), as well contributing to both Thor (with Jason Arron) and Batman (with James Tynion IV). In 2019 he released his first book as a writer, Machine Gun Wizards (co-created with Sami Kivelä) and has juggled loving writing comics with loving drawing comics ever since.

Ward currently lives in Shrewsbury with his two daughters, his wife Catherine, and a pug named Thor.

Editorial Reviews

"A steel-eyed, bone-cruncher of a tale about how to live in a time where life has been commodified into oblivion."

AIPT