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Sample file STAR POWER VOLUME FOUR: STAR POWER and the LONELY WAR Copyright © 2018 Michael Terracciano and Garth Graham. All rights reserved. Star Power, the Star Power logo, and all characters, likenesses, and situations herein are trademarks of Michael Terracciano and Garth Graham. Except for review purposes, no portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the express written consent of the copyright holders. All characters and events in this publication are fictional and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Star chartsSample adapted from charts found at hoshifuru.jp file Portions of this book are published online at www.starpowercomic.com. This volume collects STAR POWER and the LONELY WAR Issues #16-20 published online between Oct 2016 and Oct 2017.

First edition 2018

Printed in TAIWAN AND THE LONELY WAR

WORDS MICHAEL TERRACCIANO

ART GARTH GRAHAM Sample file Author of the Bring Down Heaven trilogy, Affinity for Steel Brave and Chef Brianna Sykes Sam Explore it. wondrous. It is aproduct of utter love. when you looked out the window and wondered what else was out there. It is fun. It is joy that you felt when you were akid watching good fighting evil, the same joy you felt Simply put, these two fellows packed are to the brim with joy for what they do. The same if” and “who cares” with “where to?” and optimistic relationships, is two people meeting questions like “why bother” with “what Garth and Michael have put in. This book, in its exuberant characters and exciting worlds imagination. Anything that’s exciting, anything that’s joyful, anything that’s wondrous, Star Power, in an era that sometimes has too much reality, is acreation of pure facets of the greater, more important quality of this book. small and also ashow about apsychic shirtless detective. But of all those simply are in endless situations. Federations enforcing order, pirates plying the stars, aliens big and Star Power has everything Iadore about space: endless worlds with endless characters you should really read it. like to kill areally big spider or to read while you pretend not to notice someone. But atOr least, Iassume you’re about to read it. you picked Maybe it up for other reasons, People like the two fine lads who wrote this book you’re about to read. coolest part about space and it feels like afew people agree with that. Wars isn’t science fiction, just bear with me), but for me, the unknown was always the you’re breaking your fingers on your keyboard writing email an angry about how Star likes to put down hard and fast limits and explore the space between those limits (if To some, Iguess, that might seem daunting. Daunting enough that most science fiction dreamed of thinking things you couldn’t imagine. imagine could be out there on a planet you’ve never heard of in a world you’ve never anything could be scrawled—any planet, any species, any creature you could possibly But to me, space was apromise. asuggestion. Or just Or abig canvas upon which FOREWORD nothing you traverse to get somewhere.

Sample fileseen alternatively as ahorrific void from which nothing escapes and awhole lot of what no one seems to talk about anymore. The vast, cold emptiness of space is battles between good and evil, rescuing princesses, but what Ireally loved is And don’t get me wrong, like any young-blooded person, Iloved lightsabers, Like way, way the heck in. than abowl cut, was into Star Wars. I, along with every other young weirdo with a dream of having a better hairstyle lost six friends at the Battle of Frodo’s Baggins, but before Iwas into The Hobbit, I’m afantasy writer and Ihave been ever since the Great Genre War in which I Space is pretty hecking cool, isn’t it? SampleI think the story, the comic, and the characters benefited all from this dark journey. sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone to grow. kindness in the face of overwhelming odds. Iprefer writing action over violence, but linger in this darkness. Star Power is atale of hope and optimism, of compassion and But while this is the darkest story we’ve ever told for Star Power, we’re not going to fileDanica’s shock. see when reading Star Power, and we think the imagery helped our readers share in witnessing it became our readers’ first time. It’s not something one would expect to is the first time we showcased the horror and despair of war, and Danica’s first time I think the effect worked because we had avoided gruesome violence for so long. This saw, and for that we had to forego action for violence. worlds left in its wake had never truly recovered. Danica had to be shaken by what she Wormhole Invasion was “the most devastating war ever fought,” and the shattered Millennium Federation for years without ever traveling beyond its borders. The Eighth I bent my personal rule, because we had been describing the worlds beyond the Then came this story, and Ibroke my own rule for the sake of drama. It’s more like wanted Star Power to be action-packed instead of violent. is something Isubscribed to when Isat down to write Star Power scripts. I’ve always work. believed He there was abig difference between action and violence, and that It’s based on aquote from Stan Lee when he described his approach to his own light content of our comic. We often said “Star Power has more action than violence.” In the years and books leading up to this, we prided ourselves on the comparatively This is the darkest story we’ve ever told for Star Power. -Michael, the writer -Michael,

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