Oblivion Song

Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici began Oblivion Song at Image/Skybound in 2018. Years after hundreds of thousands of Philadelphians vanished into a dangerous place called Oblivion, Nathan Cole continues to mount rescue missions.

The public emergency has become an old wound for everyone else. Nathan's refusal to stop gives the comic its central tension between duty, obsession, and the possibility of return.

The series asks what happens after the dramatic opening disaster fades from the news. A long-term rescue effort is less glamorous and more ethically complicated than the initial response.

Kirkman and De Felici make the other dimension both an adventure setting and a record of those the city failed to recover.

The transference between Philadelphia and Oblivion breaks the ordinary geography of home. Surviving elsewhere may mean adapting to a place that no one intended to inhabit.

The story uses its portal premise to test responsibility over time: at what point does a missing person become politically invisible?

De Felici distinguishes the recognizable city from Oblivion's alien terrain. The visual shift makes every crossing feel like a risk.

Creature designs and damaged environments give the other side a strong ecology of its own, resisting the idea that it is merely an empty rescue zone.