It’s here! After months of me pimping it online, Redakai: Invasion of the Gilfreem is now available. BuyBuybuy!
Redakai: Invasion of the Gilfreem is both my first outing in the Redakai universe, as well as the first volume in Viz’s new line of Redakai comics. I had a blast writing for a younger audience and getting to know the series’ characters. If you’re not familiar with the television series and card game on which the comics are based, it’s about three kids on a quest to obtain a magical energy source called Kairu. Like all good concepts, it sounds simple at first, but allows for a lot of variation based on characters and themes within.
My story has refugee aliens, thinly veiled environmentalist messaging and most importantly, art by Ray Anthony Height, Nate Lovett and Zack Turner, all of whom drew the ever-loving bejeezus out of this thing. Best of all, even if you hate me, my writing and everything I stand for, there’s still something to love in this volume, as the back-up story is by Mike Raicht and Dan Ciurczak.
Again: BuyBuybuy!
I am a BIG fan of the Redakai series. I do not know if you will see this but I absolutely love what you did for the first graphic novel. The line that stuck with me the most is from the story “Training Day” the one where Ky says “First let’s get rid of these winter mittens,” I couldn’t stop squealing at how accurate that sounded. One thing I did notice was that there was a mistake in the first novel. In the story “Hiverax Attack” Nexus’s symbol is colored Red instead of Blue. No matter! It was an excellent story and I cannot wait for more! Art was amazing too!