City of Silence

Warren Ellis and Gary Erskine’s City of Silence is a compact, three-issue Image series from 2000 that envisions a near-future London where a mysterious sonic weapon has erased all sound, plunging the city into a terrifying, silent chaos. The story follows a deaf investigator who navigates this new, brutal reality—a world stripped of noise where communication and survival demand a different kind of perception. Ellis’s characteristically bleak, cerebral sci-fi is matched by Erskine’s gritty, atmospheric art, making this a striking, overlooked meditation on sensory loss and urban collapse.