WRITTEN BY
ART BY
JAMES ROBERTS
AURELIO MAZZARA
COLORS BY
LETTERS BY
DAVID GARCIA CRUZ
ANDWORLD DESIGNS
EDITS BY
DAVID MARIOTTE & DAVID HEDGECOCK Disillusioned delivery boy Starkid dreams of captaining a Freelance Adventuring Crew (FAC) and earning a living completing lucrative but dangerous quests set by the Starcadia Alliance— a loose partnership of likeminded space-dwellers committed to keeping the peace. He has a ship, an old pirate vessel called the Solaris; a crew of his best friend Digits (gamer, former-barista), runaway Nixie (snack-fiend), and two accidental stowaways Edge and Rockwell (who both claim to own the Solaris too); a cargo hold full of vacuum-sealed time; and a mission—to find a little girl in a sales pitch they received! Their search takes them to Teklawn Beta, a planet full of angry robots. Moments after finding the little girl (now, surprisingly, fully grown up) the sky splits open and they realize, to their horror, that they’re about to be attacked by the terrifying General Thorne! Now read on…
COVER BY
AURELIO MAZZARA COLORS BY
DAVID GARCIA CRUZ
COVER BY
NICOLETTA BALDARI
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