David Duchovny has announced his next writing project: a comic book. On June 7, 2022, Dark Horse Comics issued a press release announcing Kepler, a hardcover graphic novel co-written by Duchovny and Phillip Sevy (Tomb Raider, TRIAGE), who is also drawing, coloring, and lettering the graphic novel. The science-fiction story is “a tale of sentient life amongst the stars, inspired by allegorical sci-fi, like Planet of the Apes,” according to Dark Horse’s Twitter announcement.
Although Duchovny is best known for his roles as Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody in Californication, he has a BA in English Literature from Princeton University where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (an honor society for students at the top of a graduating class), and an MA in English Literature from Yale University (subsequently he went on to start a Ph.D. but it remains unfinished). Before appearing in his first acting gig in 1987, an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer, the aspiring writer and actor received an honorable mention for a college prize from the American Academy of Poets in 1982.
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Dark Horse has been picking up a number of comics with environmental themes lately, such as Cecil Castellucci, Flavia Biondi, and Fabiana Mascolo’s Shifting Earth, and Sevy and Duchovny’s Kepler follows in those steps. Here’s how Dark Horse describes Kepler:
According to Comics Beat, the 112-page hardcover OGN Kepler arrives in comic shops on Wednesday, November 16th, and in bookstores the following Tuesday, November 22nd.
When the Benadem, benevolent space gods, return to KEPLER, a planet where homosapiens went extinct and other hominid species thrived, their arrival threatens to plunge the world into chaos. West, a 16-year-old Neanderthal girl, is thrust into the conflict and is the only hope to prevent extinction. Her efforts, unique because of her mixed hominid heritage, not only change her life, but also reveal the merciless ambition and identity of the gods themselves.
In the tradition of Planet of the Apes, KEPLER is an allegorical thriller of environmental disaster, colonialism, religion, history, and adolescence told through the eyes of a lonely outsider.
David Duchovny Is Already an Accomplished Writer
Although Kepler is the first comic work from David Duchovny, it is not his first time as an author. Duchovny has also written multiple novels. His debut novel, Holy Cow: A Modern-Dairy Tale, debuted in 2015 to mixed reviews. Since then, the Aquarius actor has penned Bucky F*cking Dent in 2016, Miss Subways: A Novel in 2018, and Truly Like Lightning in 2021.
Duchovny’s most recent novel is The Reservoir: A Novella. The actor is currently on a press tour to promote his new novella, with him recently appearing at Powell’s Books in Beaverton, Oregon. The book is Rear Window for the COVID-19 era. It’s about a Wall Street veteran who contracts COVID-19 and slowly goes mad while taking photos from his apartment.
