DNAAN ILLUSTRATED SCI-FI ACTION THRILLER
Death Notification Agency
WRITTEN BYJulian Oliver Meiojas
ILLUSTRATED BYMad Dog Jones
ART BY MAD DOG JONESRam Carnes makes a living telling people they have twenty-four hours left to live. Then the Death Notification Agency puts his name on the list.
WELCOME TO THE AGENCY
The Agency says its predictions never fail. Reapers deliver the notices. Holograms offer reassurance. Appeals come with a catch: they’re investigated after you’re dead.
Ram has been on the payroll for more than a decade. After work, there’s Nasty Nate’s.
RAM CARNES / REAPER
A former Marine with a wrecked marriage and two estranged children, Ram wants enough time to put something right.
He’ll need Camille, a DNA insider with her own reasons to fight. Trust comes less easily than pulling a trigger.
THE ROAD TO THE TOMBSTONE
From Hollywood, Florida, to the Tombstone: the former Empire State Building, now the Agency’s headquarters. Ram is going to find the people behind his notice.
Airborne pursuit, armed Auditors and a highway ambush stand between him and Manhattan. The Agency is still open for business.
SCREEN ADAPTATION
In a future where the government predicts every citizen’s exact time of death, cynical death-notice server Ram Carnes has 24 hours to race from Florida to New York, breach the agency’s headquarters and discover why its infallible system has marked him to die.
Source material: three illustrated novellas.
A forty-seven-year-old ex-Marine in an aloha shirt, fighting for enough time to face the family he’s failed. Ram meets his death notice with a foul mouth and a short fuse.
Death notices, armed Auditors and appeals investigated after death turn familiar government bureaucracy into black comedy.
A red Ferrari under airborne pursuit. A plane crash. A settlement beneath the Bronx. The chase leads to an assault on the former Empire State Building.
Julian Oliver Meiojas’s credits include Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Raised by Wolves. Mad Dog Jones’s illustrations establish DNA’s neon streets, airborne traffic and towering Agency headquarters.
DEATH NOTIFICATION AGENCY / VOLUME ONE
Start with The Reaper.
Written by Julian Oliver Meiojas
Illustrated by Mad Dog Jones
Meet Ram Carnes on the night he receives his own death notice.
STORY & ART
THE WRITER
Julian Oliver Meiojas is a film and television writer-producer whose credits include Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Raised by Wolves. His work spans crime, thrillers and science fiction.
THE ARTIST
Canadian artist Mad Dog Jones combines dense urban worlds with the colours and forms of nature. His illustrations bring DNA’s streets, characters and machinery to life in vivid neon.
Text © 2020–2021 Julian Oliver Meiojas. Artwork by Mad Dog Jones.
