You Must Take Part in Revolution Is the Perfect Graphic Novel for 2025

You Must Take Part in Revolution made IGN's list of the most anticipated graphic novels of 2025, and for good reason. It's ideal reading material in a very politically tumultuous year, exploring the lengths three friends will go in their efforts to resist a techno-fascist dictatorship.

With You Must Take Part in Revolution releasing in March, IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of this timely graphic novel. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:

You Must Take Part in Revolution is written by Melissa Chan, an Emmy-nominated foreign correspondent based in Los Angeles and Berlin. The book is illustrated by activist artist Badiucao, who is often referred to as "China's Banksy." Both creators are making their comic book debut with You Must Take Part in Revolution.

Here's the official description for the book:

From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a near-future dystopian graphic novel about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that one will go to in the fight for freedom.

It's 2035. The US and China are at war. America is a proto-fascist state. Taiwan is divided into two. As conflict escalates between nuclear powers, three idealistic youths who first met in Hong Kong develop diverging beliefs about how best to navigate this techno-authoritarian landscape. Andy, Maggie, and Olivia travel different paths toward transformative change, each confronting to what extent they will fight for freedom, and who they will become in doing so.

A powerful and important book about global totalitarian futures, and the costs of resistance.

You Must Take Part in Revolution will be released on March 4, 2025. You can preorder a copy on Amazon.

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