In advance of the fifth and final season of BBC America’s Orphan Black, IDW has teamed up with Boat Rocker Media to create a comic book series called Orphan Black: Deviations.
The six-issue series tugs at the burning question: “What if Beth hadn’t committed suicide?”
Orphan Black: Deviations is part of publisher IDW’s “Deviations” line, in which well-known stories are remade when one important event in their mythology is changed, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The series features an alternate reality where Sarah Manning did not witness Beth’s suicide in the first episode, but instead stopped it from occurring. In the television series, the suicide was the driving force behind the whole show, leading to Sarah’s revelation that she is a clone.
Written by Heli Kennedy, with art by Wayne Nichols, Orphan Black: Deviations is, itself, a deviation from the rest of the IDW event; while the four other titles released as part of the event are one-off views into less explored scenarios, the Orphan Black entry will be a full series offering the narrative of what happened to Project LEDA (and the Clone Club) in a world where Sarah did not enter Beth’s life and make her discoveries.
Orphan Black: Deviations launches in March 2017 with a 40-page first issue, seen below.

The comic comes as the Orphan Black television series, created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, prepares to air its final season in 2017.
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