In order to prime audiences for the upcoming TNT series, Titan Comics has released an official timeline for the Snowpiercer universe! The timeline is meant to make clear the timeframe in which the events of the graphic novels take place with regards to both the new series and the 2013 film release. It also charts the prequel graphic novels, which are still being released by Titan: Part 2 is due out this August, with Part 3 following sometime next year. The new television series will star the Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly and Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs.
Snowpiercer premieres May 17th, but in the meantime check out the timeline and catch up on the graphic novels!
If you haven’t read the Snowpiercer graphic novels, now is the perfect time. Beginning in June Titan Comics will be releasing the original trilogy in new softcover editions. Check out these synopses of the series so far:
SNOWPIERCER: THE ESCAPE
Written by Jacques Lob
Illustrated by Jean Marc Rochette
9781787734425, SC, $14.99
On sale 6/2/2020
On a future, frozen Earth, a train that never stops circumnavigates the globe. On board: all of humanity that we could save from the great disaster that wrapped the planet in ice. At the front of the train, the survivors live in comfort and luxury – at the rear, their lives are worse than cattle, trapped in the squalid dark. When one of the occupants of the tail breaks through into the main train – all hell follows in his wake!
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SNOWPIERCER 2: THE EXPLORERS
Written by Benjamin Legrand
Illustrated by Jean Marc Rochette
9781787734432, SC, $19.99
On sale 6/30/2020
It has long been thought that Snowpiercer was the last bastion of human civilization… but there is another train. Coursing through the endless, wintry night, its occupants live in a constant state of terror that they will collide with the train that went before… From this second train emerges a small group of the passengers who are willing to risk their lives in the deadly cold to explore what’s left of our world.
USA & Can: https://amzn.to/2xXB8El
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SNOWPIERCER 3: TERMINUS
Written by Olivier Bocquet
Illustrated by Jean Marc Rochette
Publisher: Titan Comics
9781787734449, SC, $24.99
On sale 7/21/2020
On a future, frozen Earth, humanity has been packed onto self-sustaining trains, doomed to circumnavigate the globe until the end of the interminable ice age – or until the engines give out.
When a scrap of music piques their interest, the inhabitants of the Icebreaker take the ultimate risk and cross the frozen ocean, a vast expanse with no train tracks… and no way to return to them.
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SNOWPIERCER THE PREQUEL: EXTINCTION
Written by Matz
Illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette
9781785868832, HC, $19.99
On sale now
The Snowpiercer saga continues with this brand new story by original artist Jean-Marc Rochette and Eisner nominated writer, Matz. Set before the extinction event that caused the new ice age in which the Snowpiercer travels perpetually around the globe, witness the terrifying events that led to the need for and creation of the eponymous train.
USA & Can: https://amzn.to/2KEQmAD
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SNOWPIERCER: THE PREQUEL PART 2: APOCALYPSE
Written by Matz
Illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette
9781787730328, HC, $19.99
On sale 8/25/2020
After the extinction event that caused the new ice age, the train Snowpiercer travels perpetually around the globe, with the last survivors of humanity learning to come to terms with their new reality.
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