SCIENCE FICTION EPIC STARLIGHT BY MILLAR AND PARLOV DAZZLES IN FEBRUARY
Image Comics graphic novel imbued with wonder
Forty years ago, Air Force test pilot Duke McQueen saved the universe. Then he came home from a splendorous alien world, married his best girl, settled down, had two sons, and grew old. His stories of his journey across galaxies became the subject of whispered ridicule. But in STARLIGHT, the Image Comics graphic novel by superstar comics writer Mark Millar (JUPITER’S LEGACY, Kick-Ass) and artist Goran Parlov, Duke — alone after his sons leave home and his wife dies — gets a message from space: the Universe needs a hero again.
A sweeping science fiction epic, STARLIGHT features Millar’s most heartfelt storytelling to date, while Parlov depicts with equal skill a dazzling alien planet and and old man’s loneliness with his gorgeous, Moebius-esque art. Duke is returning to Tantalus a legendary hero, but is he still the man he was forty years ago?
“The whole character just seemed to pour out the moment I started writing him,” said Millar of Duke in an interview on Image Comics’ website, “and I found myself really caring about him. His life is like any of our father’s or grandfather’s, except for this one amazing thing that happened forty years ago, and so as the first issue closes and he gets a chance to go back we’re really with him on that journey.”
A must-read for anyone who wants their sci-fi to have a sense of wonder, STARLIGHT will be in comic book stores on February 11 and in bookstores on February 24. It is available for pre-order now. It is currently in development at Fox as a feature film.
- ISBN 978-1-63215-017-2
- Diamond Comic order code DEC140693
- 168 pages, paperback, color
- $14.99
- Collects STARLIGHT #1-6
- Rated Teen Plus
- In comic book stores February 11, bookstores February 24
Praise for STARLIGHT:
“This book has the perfect balance of being introspective and retrospective. Continuing it’s cinematic, science fiction serial look and feel, Starlight is a heart warming and rejuvenating read.” – All-Comic.com
“This creative team absolutely nailed this series. This is something that we desperately need more of. Even as the final pages are wrapping up, the withdrawals are already kicking in. We need more Mark Millar/Goran Parlov in our lives, even if that means it’s not a Duke McQueen tale. You don’t need any previous knowledge of the Millar-world to get into this book, so you have no excuses when the trade drops. This was something special and I implore all of you to check it out.” – All-Comic.com
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