Chaykin focused on Tomorrow

CBR.com recently had the chance to talk with Howard Chaykin about his upcoming Wildstorm project called City of Tomorrow. What's it about? I was wondering the same thing:

The futuristic city of Columbia was an idyllic refuge from the outside world. Advanced animatronic robots waited on the lucky citizens of this utopian community. The citizens of Colombia believed they were free from crime, until a virus turned the selfless robotic servants of Colombia into criminal masterminds and they turned Colombia into a hellhole. Now the son of Colombia's creator has come back to the community and hopes to take back the night from the robotic criminals.

I wonder what Chaykin's motivation for creating this six issue miniseries was:

I wanted to do a completely and totally created community that went to complete hell and the only guy who can save it is the disaffected son of the guy who built it. He comes home thinking he's got a place to hide out and kind of comes in to a bigger hellhole than what he left behind. It's a story about fathers and sons, to a great extent, because he and his dad do not get along. It's also about a guy who has been unlucky in love who actually finds love and romance in this context."

There's a lot of interesting elements to this write up, too many to copy and paste here so I encourage everyone to check out the original post. It offers insight to some of Chaykin's political views (ever heard of Communitarism?), the real-life models for some of the characters, and even more killer art.