Box Brown explores AI resurrection + big tech in next graphic novel ‘Forevr’

The Top Shelf graphic novel follows a family grappling with a consciousness-uploading app that lets them keep chatting with their dying mother … for a reasonable monthly fee.

Top Shelf Productions will publish Forevr, a new original graphic novel from Brian “Box” Brown, creator of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman and many other wonderful graphic novels.

The story follows Brenda, whose dying mother uploads her consciousness to the aptly named “Forevr,” an app that allows surviving family members to continue chatting with deceased loved ones. As Brenda and her girlfriend pursue careers as wilderness survival influencers, her father grows increasingly dependent on the digital version of his wife, and tensions come to a head on a family camping trip.

Forevr started as predictive fiction but before the book even came out someone had put together a similar product for sale in 2025,” Brown said. “It’s about a typical American family being put under the control of Big Tech, with or without their permission. One family member watches as another is brainwashed but they’re powerless to help them. I think it’s a situation a lot of families can relate to.”

Here’s a preview:

Forevr will arrive in stores Sept. 8.

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