Sea of Stars Vol. 1: Lost in the Wild Heavens
Jason Aaron & Dennis Hallum, writers; Stephen Green, artist; Rico Renzi, colorist
Image Comics, 2020
This starts out looking like a somewhat predictable YA story. Recently widowed Gil is basically a space trucker, moving goods through a safe, predictable part of space: the charted starways, away from any outer wilds. Safe enough that he brings his son Kadyn along for the ride. But then his ship is attacked by a Space Leviathan--a huge whale-like creature that is previously unknown--and the whole mission goes south in a big way. It is the first of a serious of surreal events that sets the tone for the story. This is a world with creatures that can survive in space: fortunately some of them are kind of cute. Gil finds a succession of ways to survive, while Kadyn manages to not only survive, but thrive. Kadyn seems to be getting all the help he needs from a talking Space Monkey and a Space Dolphin. But he is also manifesting strange powers, which convince the Zzazteks that he is their missing God. The ceremony they begin with him makes him look more like a sacrifice, which ends the first part.
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