Eve (graphic novel)

LaValle, Victor. Eve. Jo Mi-Gyeong, illustrator. Brittany Peer, colorist.[1] Los Angeles: Boom! Studios, 2023.[2][3] Serial comic book / graphic novel. Afrofuiturist series. NYC: Simon & Schuster, 2022. "Collects Eve #1-5."[4]

From the Simon & Schuster webpage:

When the ice caps melted, most of humanity was lost to the hidden disease that was released. Now, a mysterious girl named Eve has awoken in secret and must deal with a world that’s nothing like the virtual reality she was raised in.

In order to save her father and accompanied only by Wexler, her robotic caretaker and protector sheathed in her favorite teddy bear, Eve must embark on a deadly quest across the country.

From Sara Smith's review of Eve vol. 1 on The Graphic Library on line, 20 April 2022.

The world has been destroyed by humans, and what remains is a deadly virus that changes children, as they hit puberty, into flesh-eating monsters [...]. Eve’s favorite teddy bear, who is actually a complex android named Wexler, tells her she needs to travel across the country to a vault that contains the tools to hopefully save the planet. Eve finds out so much on her journey that her parents didn’t plan for, including clones, dangerous robots, and so much more.[5]

See for virtual reality (VR), those "dangerous robots," and for the robotic teddy bear, for which cf. and contrast Harry Harrison's "I Always Do What Teddy Says," Brian Aldiss's "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," and the film made from the Aldiss story, Steven Spielberg's A.I. (vt. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE).

RDE, with thanks to Heather King and Lisa Yaszek, finishing, 5Nov24