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Time is playing out
backwards for Adam Taylor. It seems that in the near future, the
expansion of the Universe finally reaches the end of the rubber band
ride it has been on, and has now began to contract. This has caused a
reversal of time on the planet Earth, and Adam Taylor finds that he
seems to be the only person not aging backward like everyone else.
He
watches his son disappear back into his wife's belly. President Carter
is replaced with President Ford. The computer is given up for the
simplicity of the typewriter. The Earth begins to heal itself as the pollution
in the air, water and soil begin to disappear. The population explosion
of human reverses and people are disappearing. Adam lives through all of
this not knowing why.
All Adam knows is that he has a strange dark
coloring that covers the back of his left hand and he doesn't know who
his mother is. He knows that he must solve both of these riddles so he
can also be reabsorbed back into his mother and end his long life. Thus,
he begins his journey...
The Man Who Grew Young
is a graphic novel. This is a
three-part story and each part has a specific purpose. Part One deals
with Adam leaving behind his wife and traveling across America. By he
time he reached the Atlantic, he and the rest of the colonists are
traveling back to England leaving the land to the Indians.
Part Two
takes place in England where Adam runs across the wizard, Merlin. Merlin
reveals a great many secrets as they journey across the land and find
Alta, a prophet. She tells her followers that time wasn't always flowing
that way it does now and reveals that life used to go in reverse to what
is does now. The people were frightened by the idea that they were put
into the ground or tied under the water to sticks, as was their case, at
the end of their lives.
Part Three takes place after all the people have
left the Earth except for a woman he finds in the last town with her two
sons. There she tells the story of Adam and the tree of the Gods. Her
sons, Cain and Able listen intently.
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