The only former Eastern Bloc comics superheroine returns!

Comics

Octobriana is the most internationally famous Czech comics character, even though she was created in the early 1970s as a fake by one of the biggest hoaxers of the time Petr Sadecký, and the comics of which she was supposed to be the main heroine never actually existed. The scantily clad (super)heroine, who leads a band of noble revolutionaries in their fight against the Stalinist Soviet regime as well as against capitalism and imperialism, inspired comics artist and writer Bryan Talbot in the 1970s and later other British, American and European creatives. However, the first graphic novel with Octobriana as the main character has appeared only now.

Graphic artist Marek Berger and writer Ondřej Kavalír were inspired by many elements of the comics sketches that Sadecký once used to fool Western European publishers, creating a spectacular new story which takes place in an alternative past reality. It is 1972 and the threat of nuclear war between Western countries, led by the USA, and the Soviet Union, dominated by communist generals, is ever-present. Octobriana works as a Soviet Special Agent and during a new assignment deep in the frozen wastes of the Arctic she has a mystical initiation experience that frees her from the communist regime and connects her to the mythological Lilith. The future fate of the planet and humanity itself depends on her encounters with the adversary Amazon operating in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and her relationship with the unpredictable Lilith.