She’ll make new friends and reconnect with some old friends – and who is that ghost in the blue cloak? You’ve got to pick the book up and find out for yourself! While she’s in prison, Zita tries to find out what happened to her friends, plan a rescue, and save Earth from a nefarious attack scheme. She’s thrown into jail, where she befriends her cellmates, a pile of rags named Raggy and a skeleton named Femur. She’s even called “Zita the Crime Girl”, which is just rude. By the time we begin Return of Zita the Spacegirl, Zita and her friends have been split up, and she’s hauled into a prison on the Dungeon World on trumped-up charges of destroying an asteroid (to save a planet), interfering with a species immigration, theft of a spacecraft, and consorting with “known criminals and public nuisances”. Zita is a young girl who, with her friend Joseph, found herself on an outer space adventure after discovering a device in a crater while out playing one day. I quickly read Legends of Zita the Spacegirl, and was delighted when a review copy of Return of Zita the Spacegirl showed up on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago. I first met her when Chuck, our editor monkey, handed me a copy of the first book and said, “You have to read this. For anyone who hasn’t heard of Ben Hatke’s Zita the Spacegirl, I urge you to get to a library, a bookstore, or a friend with an enviable graphic novel collection and check her out, because she is fantastic.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |