It’s Eva Thorne’s 200th birthday.
But it’s not a celebration, more like a funeral.
200 is a graphic novel series by Jennifer Brody and Jules Rivera. This story follows Eva, who lives in a world where the Cure for aging and illness has been discovered and administered to every person on Earth, only there’s one big hitch. It turns out that very few people can handle immortality, so they have to take a test on their two hundredth birthday. If they pass, then they get to live forever. But if they fail, they must be euthanized.
Eva’s not an optimist. In fact, she’s pretty sure that she’s going to fail her Centurial Assessment Test. For starters, almost nobody passes anymore. She’s seen the news stories. But than more than that, Eva can tell that she’s already starting to slip mentally. Ever since the Escorts took her husband Owen away for his test a little over six months ago and he never came back, she’s been chainsmoking cigarettes (they can’t kill her after all), binge drinking, and waiting for the Escorts to get it over with already.
Who wants to live forever if you have to do it alone?
But things don’t go as Eva suspects as an unexpected glimmer of hope for her future presents itself at her test. Can she go back to the life she used to have with the man she loves? Or is her time really up?
From the creators of Spectre Deep 6 comes a new story that asks how far you would go to hang onto the ones you love, and what it takes to let them go.
