Stone Star Volume 1: Fight or Flight

by Jim Zub, Max Dunbar (Illustrator), Espen Grundetjern (Illustrator)

Overview

The brand-new space-fantasy saga that takes flight from fan-favorite creators Jim Zub (Avengers, Samurai Jack) and Max Dunbar (Champions, Dungeons & Dragons)!

The nomadic space station called Stone Star brings gladiatorial entertainment to ports across the galaxy. Inside this gargantuan vessel of tournaments and temptations, foragers and fighters struggle to survive.

A young thief named Dail discovers a dark secret in the depths of Stone Star and has to decide where his destiny lies—staying hidden in the shadows or standing tall in the searing spotlight of the arena. Either way, his life, and the cosmos itself, will never be the same!

Stone Star is an action-adventure spectacle bursting with colorful characters and pulse-pounding action! Grab your weapons, gritters, and join the fray!

Collects the original digital series Stone Star #1-#5 in print for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506724584
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	07/06/2021
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past twenty years he's worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco.

He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and a professor teaching drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca College's award-winning Animation program.

His current comic projects include Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda, a new series about T'Challa's secret strike team, Conan the Barbarian, the monthly adventures of Robert E. Howard's legendary sword & sorcery hero, Dungeons & Dragons, the official comic series of the world's most popular tabletop role-playing game, and Stone Star, a space-fantasy adventure set inside a roving gladiatorial arena.

Editorial Reviews

2021-05-17
Creatures and giant robots battle in space.

In this graphic science fiction series opener, Dail, a brown-skinned, humanlike orphan with oversized ears, is a thief on the asteroid Stone Star, which is currently moored on the purple planet Quell. Arena fights between monsters and gladiators (armed with weapons and huge mechs called effigies) upon the Stone Star are broadcast throughout the galaxy, showing some warriors’ climb to fame and victory while others meet a violent end. Dail’s best friend, Kitzo, a green-and-blue–skinned creature, is forced to fight a monster in the Death’s Door Brigade, and Dail’s effigy, Durn, jumps in to intervene. In the process, Dail discovers latent powers that could make him one of the fiercest gladiators in the universe. Told in quickly moving episodic chapters, Zub’s tale is intricate and complex, dropping readers right into its unfamiliar interstellar world, building it along the way but doling out exposition in, at times, frustratingly small pieces. However, the breakneck action and recognizably fun science-fiction tropes more than make up for this stumble. A tantalizing cliffhanger should entice further interest in this series, with its shades of Star Wars and The Hunger Games. Dunbar’s art is rendered with an impressive cinematic flourish, augmented by blazingly beautiful colors by Grundetjern.

Promising. (Graphic science fiction. 10-14)

Kirkus Reviews