Finder is a science fiction comic book series written and drawn by Carla Speed McNeil, and is currently published by Dark Horse Comics. McNeil describes Finder as "aboriginal science fiction" and their storylines throw together characters from recognizable aboriginal and modern urban societies in a far-future Earth. Finder is the recipient of numerous awards and award nominations. Finder was also listed in the British Science Fiction Association's journal Vector among six groundbreaking science fiction comics. "The world-building is immense..." and compared it to Dave Sim's Cerebus in terms of "...sheer scale of storytelling". Setting The series is set in a vastly depopulated far-future Earth where numerous hunter-gatherer cultures, some human and some not, surround densely overpopulated domed city-states of recognizably modern urbanites functioning at a high technological level. Our own civilization and its considerably more advanced successors are lost to prehistory save for a few twentieth-century pop cultural artifacts conveniently recovered by well-paid psychics. The cities, particularly the city state of Anvard, are dominated by wealthy and exclusive clans which self-select their members for physical and psychological homogeneity and head up a hierarchy of half-clan culls, clanless half-citizens, slaves, visiting nomads (some non-human), and genetic "constructs" with animal features. Large corporations and a decentralized infotrader/media network both wield considerable and at times quite nefarious influence. Office workers routinely jack in to virtual reality environments while walking the city as zombies. The societies outside the domes endure less overt injustice but much more privation and danger. These include, but are not limited to, several aboriginal human cultures, an all-but-matriarchal civilization of lion-women, enigmatic raptor lizards with organs adapted specifically to brain surgery and genetic engineering, and cow-horned farmer-pirates harvesting enemy crops in giant militarized combines, and they are all constantly in low-grade conflict with each other for scarce resources. Characters All storylines thus far feature one of two aboriginal characters although several focus chiefly on their urban contacts. Jaeger The main character is "Jaeger" Ayers, who is half-redneck and half "Ascian" (McNeil's stand-in culture for real-world Native Americans). Jaeger has featured in all storylines thus far, whether as protagonist or in cameos and flashbacks, although McNeil has stated the intention to continue the series without him at some future date, when his story is completed. Jaeger is the son of an Ascian mother of whom he knows nothing, and a rural white father whose death in Jaeger's early teens set him