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John Blake’s world is turned on its head when a disastrous research experiment throws his ship into a swirling mist of time. Adrift across centuries, the captain and his mysterious vessel face the perils of every era in an endless race toward home.
Amid the chaos, John rescues a shipwrecked teenage girl named Serena, and the two form an uneasy partnership as they navigate the hazards of the modern oceans and the lingering echoes of past trauma. Together, they must outwit the forces that trap him and find a way to break the temporal loop that threatens their future.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Fiction
Authors: Philip Pullman
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