An experimental community built at the beginning of the Electric Age, ELECTROPOLIS is characterized by cathedral-sized Van Der Graaf generators and towering Strickfadden machines.

From the air, the city resembles nothing so much as the interior of an old radio or television set. Machinery as architecture... Electricity as commerce...

Set against this fanciful, though somewhat grim backdrop, ELECTROPOLIS is a vintage murder mystery involving Menlo Park, the electric detective--his partner, the feisty Anesta Robbins -- as well as their nemeses, typical overweight kingpin Alfred MacGuffin and fetishist femme fatale Tess LaCoyle.

ELECTROPOLIS is written and illustrated by DEAN MOTTER. This is the first time he has tackled both script and art chores on a series since his celebrated prestige mini-series, THE PRISONER for DC Comics in 1989. Motter enjoys a following by those who remember his ‘80’s independent comic book sensation, MISTER X and the highly acclaimed TERMINAL CITY and AERIAL GRAFITTI series for Vertigo/DC Comics in the ‘90s. ELECTROPOLIS continues his explorations in the unique genre he created in these books.

CHRIS CHUCKRY provides the color for this series. His work has been seen recently on SUPERMAN: LAST SON OF KRYPTON, BATMAN BEYOND: THE RETURN OF THE JOKER, WORLD'S FUNNEST, and STAR WARS TALES.

ELECTROPOLIS picks up, one could say, where MISTER X and TERMINAL CITY both intersect, and left off. It’s The Thin Man and Moonlighting meet Fritz Lang's Metropolis via Alphaville with a bumpy detour through The Jetsons.