Glork Patrol (Book One): Glork Patrol on the Bad Planet

by James Kochalka

Overview

Exploding from the beloved Glorkian Warrior video game and graphic novels: a hilarious new outer-space adventure, from the creator of the Eisner-Award-winning series JOHNNY BOO and DRAGON PUNCHER!

Who keeps the galaxy silly? The Glork Patrol! Join the Glorkian Warrior and Baby Gonk as they explore a new planet and make some new friends. But they'll have to watch out for the most dangerous creature in the universe: a Baby Quackaboodle!

Join author James Kochalka for a new beginning to the wild and wacky universe of Glork!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603094757
Publisher:	IDW Publishing
Publication date:	09/15/2020
Series:	Glork Patrol
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

James Kochalka is, without question, one of the most unique and prolific alternative cartoonists working in America today. His comics have been published internationally by almost every alternative comics publisher; he's recorded several music albums under the name James Kochalka Superstar (making him a favorite at college radio stations across the country); and he's developed animated cartoons for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Hangover.

He is the first official Cartoonist Laureate of the state of Vermont, appointed in 2011.

Among his best known works are the Monkey vs Robot series, the superpowered frathouse comedy SuperF*ckers, the beloved children's series Johnny Boo, Dragon Puncher, and Glorkian Warrior, and his magnum opus, the 14-year span of daily diary comics known as American Elf.

Editorial Reviews

"Calibrated for pure young-reader joy by a long-standing master of comics eccentricity." — Booklist

"With oversized panels, whimsically styled characters, and an eye-catching palette, the book should dissolve readers into giggles as they watch the wacky warrior make one comically bad decision after another." — Kirkus Reviews

"Cotton candy-colored, comic-style panels... zany antics and over-the-top humor will have children rolling their eyes and laughing out loud as the bad planet is rescued, Glork-style." — Foreword Reviews

From the Publisher

2020-06-30
A goofy warrior and his crew learn a lesson about prejudging when they land on a new planet.

The Glorkian Warrior, a bumbling blue-jumpsuited, bubble-gum–pink, three-eyed space traveler, crash-lands on a new planet after trying to steer his ship with his tongue. With his companions, Baby Gonk and Super Backpack, the doughty adventurer explores their surroundings. When the Glorkian Warrior spies a rock he believes to be wrongly colored, he deems the entire planet “bad.” Soon, Baby Gonk is separated from the Glorkian Warrior and meets baby Gloo Gloo, who has wandered away from mother Gloonda. When everyone is reunited, they happen upon a humungous egg, and once again, the Glorkian Warrior foolhardily decides it’s “evil” when it hatches. Though short and seemingly unceasingly daffy, Kochalka’s fourth Glorkian tale offers a subtle message about acceptance and how rash judgments can hurt everyone, as the Glorkian Warrior’s impulsive choices leave him with a broken ship and many bruises. With oversized panels, whimsically styled characters, and an eye-catching palette, the book should dissolve readers into giggles as they watch the wacky warrior make one comically bad decision after another. Readers are given virtually no backstory; however, the experience is much like jumping into the middle of a season of an animated show, and most readers should be able to follow the action and silliness without too many quibbles.

Zany overload with a quiet message. (Graphic fantasy/humor. 7-11)

Kirkus Reviews