DOWN & BELOW by Cass Trent

When the city of Brink begins to sink—first by inches, then by blocks—no one can explain why. Streets buckle into staircases, basements bloom into underground neighborhoods, and the wealthy flee upward to glass towers while the poor are pushed down and below, into the dark.

Iria Calder, a courier who knows the city’s underlevels better than any map, survives by delivering messages through collapsing zones and flooded tunnels. When she’s hired to carry a sealed package from the highest district to the city’s deepest point, she discovers it isn’t cargo—it’s a child who hears the city speak.

Below Brink lies the Underskin, a vast buried world of abandoned infrastructure, forgotten cultures, and creatures shaped by pressure and neglect. The deeper Iria travels, the more the city reveals itself as a living thing—one that has been wounded, exploited, and hollowed out over generations.

As riots erupt above and whole neighborhoods vanish beneath the streets, Iria must decide whether to finish the job and escape, or listen to what the city is asking for: reckoning.

Blending urban decay, body-horror architecture, and intimate character drama, DOWN & BELOW is a graphic novel about class, collapse, and what we bury to keep standing.