Scott Snyder and Ray Fawkes Send Attack On Titan to 2030 San Francisco
Scott Snyder and Ray Fawkes pushed attack on titan into 2030 San Francisco, where Dr. Price and his assistant tried to save mankind. The short story ends with skinless Titans rising from the ocean depths, a cut that turns the setting into something closer to a failed rescue operation than a clean alternate future.
Released in 2016 as part of the Attack on Titan anthology, the story sits alongside work from Evan Dorkin, Sam Humphries, Gail Simone, Paul Pope, and Michael Avon Oeming. Snyder also teamed with Rafael Albuquerque, continuing a partnership that had already produced American Vampire.
Snyder, Fawkes, Albuquerque
Snyder and Fawkes placed the action in San Francisco in 2030, then centered it on Dr. Price, who believed there was only one thing left that would bring about peace. He discovered motion beneath the ocean's depths and took a helicopter with his cohort to document what he believed were whales returning to the surface.
The pilot worried about being blown out of the sky, and that detail keeps the story from reading like simple nostalgia or fan-service. Snyder's version of Attack on Titan works because it treats the setting as a pressure test: a city, a machine, and a theory of peace all meet the same threat line at once.
Ocean Depths in 2030
The final panel shows Titans crashing to the surface, which gives the story a harder ending than a tease or a clean continuation. In the series finale, humanity lost eighty percent of its population, Eren Jaeger died fighting his former friends, and a newcomer stumbled on his grave in the final moments, leaving the cycle of the Titans open to start again.
That ending makes Snyder and Fawkes' story feel less like a side experiment and more like a reminder that Attack on Titan anthology entries can move anywhere the creators want, even to an alternate-future San Francisco. For readers, the useful takeaway is simple: this short story does not just borrow the title; it uses the franchise's collapse logic in a new city, then stops at the instant the new disaster becomes visible.
