He is perhaps best known for his recent horror novels The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and two years ago he made his Marvel debut, penning a story in Marvel Comics' Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 anthology. Jones is a Blackfoot Native American who has written well over twenty-five published works and is a critically acclaimed voice within the horror genre. Or if it is? Then go back, scratch it out. “Stories give us devices like time travel as a way of dealing with poor choices and regret. “Post-apocalyptic stories are always cautionary tales,” Jones explained. While Earthdivers is a fantastical exploration of America's past (and future) history, the story is also a cautionary tale that seeks to shed light on environmental consciousness and the perils of an impending climate disaster. The series seems to borrow its name from the myth of "Earth-divers," who are figures sent on a quest by a higher being to find sustenance and build a new habitable world, which seems perfectly in line with a group of Indigenous time travelers who are hell-bent on stopping the founding of the United States. In each arc, the group of survivors targets a pivotal point in history, beginning with a mission to kill Christopher Columbus in 1492. Set in a post-apocalyptic near future, Earthdivers follows a small group of Indigenous survivors who time-travel to prevent the creation of America and, by doing so, retroactively save the world from destruction.
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