The countdown

A year has passed since an oil tanker had an accident causing a large oil spill. Otero, the Undersecretary of Fisheries of the regional government, presents an advertising campaign to announce the recovery of the coast and the fishing sector. Objectively however, it is a misinformation campaign with the purpose of silencing the criticism of the way the disaster was handled. Sailors, journalists, shopkeepers and volunteers are the other major actors in this choral drama, which gains in nuances and depth as the story - told in reverse - unfolds before the reader.

Twenty years after the Prestige catastrophe, reading La Cuenta Atrás seems like the perfect remedy to avoid the fulfillment of Cicero's maxim, according to which "those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes". 

A collaboration by awarded authors Carlos Portela and Sergi San Julián, this Graphic Novel is presented in a new edition that, in addition to including the second part of the work -unpublished until now-, contains abundant additional material that delves into the genesis and development of this project.