DSTLRY announces Life from Brian Azzarello, Stephanie Phillips, and Danijel Žeželj

DSTLRY has announced Life an innovative six-issue series that unites co-writers Brian Azzarello and Stephanie Phillips for the first time. Joined by artist Danijel Žeželj and colorist Lee Loughridge, the team constructs an interlocking flip book, anchored by two violent stories that collide on a desolate prison planet. Life is edited by industry legend Will Dennis. Life #1 will be on sale later this summer in print and digital. 

Life presents a grim future where the most depraved prisoners face a new extreme punishment—artificial immortality that lasts the length of their combined sentences. After centuries pass, the forgotten prisoners encounter a ship filled with intergalactic thieves eyeing the planet’s long-abandoned mines. Unbeknownst to the pirates, their target is far from deserted, haunted by the remaining prisoners now mutated into grotesque monsters.   

Each story—that of the prisoners and thieves—initially unfolds independently through each end of Life’s innovative flipbook design. The stories crash and catalyze in surprising ways, as Phillips and Azzarello peel back the layered connections between the two groups and their looming brutal confrontation.  

As a flip-book, each issue of Life  features full cover art on front on and back with spot gloss on robust stock. The debut issue of Life features 56 pages while subsequent issues will have DSTLRY’s standard 48 pages with exquisite interior paper quality.