"A lost cause in the eyes of many, esteemed peers - our home world is buried behind lightyears of deserted star systems we have exerted eons ago. Few have attempted this journey in the past - none have returned."
Far into the distant future, humanity has abandoned its doomed planet of origin, spreading across the vast reaches of space. For millions of years, our species has discovered, inhabited, and exhausted entire star systems in its quest for expansion.
Phineas Vesper Cornelius, probably the most renowned xenologist in human history, has led this existential conquest for the last century. Spearheading the study of alien life forms, he has discovered and documented more worlds and creatures than anyone else. But after a century of unrivaled success, he decides to attempt the wildly implausible - turning his back from the journey further out into space and traveling unprecedented distances back to our ancient home: planet Earth. There, he theorizes, life has reemerged after eons of abandonment.
Soon enough, Phineas will discover that not only has life indeed returned, but that a mysterious new race has risen to rule humanity's old domain.
Ëarth: Revisited is a short graphic novel about a possible utopia lying somewhere beyond the dystopia some of us might imagine our future in, and the lessons learned (or not) by our kind between now and then.
