Mother Nature

Academy Award–winning Hollywood legend Curtis makes her graphic novel debut in this ecological-horror tale based on a script by Curtis and Goldman and adapted and illustrated by Stevens (Penny). Soon after inheriting a mining company called Cobalt Energy from her father, Cynthia Butterfield announces her plan to dedicate the company’s resources to an experimental water-purification process that she claims will rebalance nature and paint the desert green. Ground zero for the implementation of this new process is Catch Creek, NM, home to Nova Terrell, a young woman who blames Cobalt Energy for the gruesome accident that claimed her father’s life years earlier. Spurred on by visions of a wrathful Navajo spirit, Nova embarks upon a campaign of sabotage against the company’s facilities. Meanwhile, a series of increasingly unlikely environmental disasters begin to claim the lives of Cobalt Energy employees, and both a lovesick high school senior and Nova’s mother are drawn to investigate whether Butterfield’s plans for their hometown are markedly less altruistic than they seem.