THE VALIANT STARS
I will tell you of a time of valour.
Of angels and demons.
Of battles beyond all imagining.
I will tell you of the Zap,
For its tale is the tale of all humanity.
Blasting directly into your brains from the 1989 that never was, The Valiant Stars is the snakepunk adventure you never knew existed and never thought you needed! In a time beyond time, among stars beyond space, the nascent human empire is already in decline. 200 years ago, insectoid cyborgs called the Kozark invaded and nearly exterminated humanity- it would’ve been the finish line for the human race but for the mysterious and short-lived intervention of psychic aliens called the Zybo! Now, the profound generational scar left by this unprecedented tragedy still haunts humanity. Their mightiest defenders? Fifty rejects, dweebs, and three-time losers called the ZAP JOCKEYS. Granted incredible, death-defying superpowers by 200 years of training in an alien megastructure called the Pyre Cube, they stand ready to protect Earth from another invasion. But their far remove from the humanity they seek to defend has made them aliens in their own right, and trust is a hard thing to come by in space.
Begin your journey in the far-flung future of 2014 and join SNAKES LENINGRAD and CAPTAIN GUNSMOKE for a whirlwind adventure featuring alien planets, impossible landscapes, powerful friends, and nightmarish foes! Live the saga alongside COMMANDER JOACHIM PEGASUS, framed for a murder he didn’t commit, set up to fall by powers that gaze on Earth with covetous eyes! Witness FOX BURKE, forced to confront her evil clone, still in the service of a dying alien empire! With The Valiant Stars, you have a front-row seat to the Battle for Ghiscard, the Life Comics 2014 Chilled-Out Summertime Jam, the Second Battle of Earth, and beyond!
Read on for a story of comedy, exhilaration, radical skateboarding, “fast snacks”, laser beams, proton bombs, conspiracies, tragedies, gods, monsters, and the redemptive power of love!
It's a time desperate for heroes!
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The Life Comix 2014 Chilled-Out Summertime Jam
The adventure that started it all! It's summertime in 2014, and space heroes Snakes Leningrad and Captain Gunsmoke just want to put on a little hip-hop music festival. But when the deeply weird and bothersome Spooky Jim uses an ancient and powerful artefact to ascend to godhood backstage, it kicks off a high-octane, no-holds-barred race to save Earth! Thrown beyond the edge of the galaxy, Gunsmoke, Leningrad, and their robo-pal Robot Peter Chiykowski will have to uncover the secret of the mysterious world on which they've landed, and get back in time to stop Spooky Jim from eating the entire planet. Can they pull it off? Or is this Earth's last summer? Read on to find out!
KOBRA STALLION Volume 1: Reptile Justice in the Stars
The explosive follow up to 2014's adventure lands in 200 pages of snakepunk adventure! A year after the events of the Summertime Jam, Earth is in turmoil! In the wake of Spooky Jim's attack, the United Nations has accepted assistance from a mysterious alien flotilla, designated: RANGER HAWK! But the citizenry are in an uproar, fearing a second incident, or worse! The Hercules Navy is empowered with emergency measures, but the peace is fragile- it's enough to spoil Gunsmoke and Leningrad's hard-earned vacation! But when they stumble upon their archrival Vicki Vanguard (and her obsequious toady, Commander Cruel) pilfering an ancient ruin on a distant world, they know they can't stand idly by. They'll have to rally a whole skatepark's worth of new friends, including Fox Burke, Fractal Fatale, and Darkshark Murderstar if they want to get to the bottom of Vicki's scheme and find out the truth behind the Ranger Hawk Fleet! Read on, snakepunks!
KOBRA STALLION Volume 2: Radical Astral Tilt
The Kobra Stallion duology concludes in 300 pages of unstoppable adventure! Gunsmoke, Leningrad, and Robot Peter Chiykowski have been kidnapped by the Ranger Hawk fleet! And things aren't much better back on Earth- the Zybo, humanity's saviours from an ancient war, have appeared and imposed an uneasy status quo. Commander Pegasus, now a hero, is dispatched for leave, but can't shake the feeling that something is amiss. And the Five Who Went Bad are still at hand- and still scheming! The adventure continues across time and space- as Gunsmoke and Leningad stage their escape, as Fox witnesses the true horror of the Five Who Went Bad's plan, as guerilla journalist Elegy Williams and her bodyguard set out to get to the bottom of the attack. As everything comes to a head, betrayals pile up, Earth becomes unsafe, and the stars catch fire with war, Gunsmoke and Leningrad prove it again- you ain't never seen adventure like this!
STARBREAKERS: Gunstar Runaways of the Rebel Sky, Volume 1: Every Star a Burning Heart
A new chapter in the Valiant Stars story ignites hearts across the galaxy! The Zap Jockeys, having escaped from Earth, spend their days scouring the Mobile Vault for anything that can give them an edge in the upcoming battle to liberate their homeworld. Against their better judgement, they open Dirk Deadly's Deadly Pirate Armoury, and thereby recover the coordinates of an ancient battlestation called Ghiscard. They hope to recover the ultra-powerful space battleship STARBREAKER from their friend Oberon Sleet- but they arrive to find Ghiscard controlled by the dastardly Erasmus Blitzkrieg and his patron, Lady-Corvus Kubaryi Liyon! If the Jockeys want to bring the Starbreaker to bear against the Zybo, they'll need to put up their dukes for an all-out fight against the lousiest bunch of evildoers the galaxy has ever known- and they'll need to do it fast!
STARBREAKERS: Gunstar Runaways of the Rebel Sky, Volume 2: Hypergalactic Fury Upon The Night
The fight for Ghiscard is just beginning! Fractal Fatale is missing, Dirk Deadly is misbehaving, a battlefleet of Carthagen warships is lighting up space around the station and Fox Burke has to face off against her deadliest enemy yet- herself! Lisette Sy Izmer, a clone of Fox still locked in service to Kubaryi's dread ambitions, is dead-set on eradicating her would-be self, and there's no prize for second place in this fight. Worse still, the Starbreaker has launched, with the dastardly Erasmus Blitzkrieg at its helm. Rishi Everson and Elegy Williams have been kidnapped by Kubaryi, the Kobra Stallion fleet is being hammered by friendly fire, and Sneaky Jake is nowhere to be seen! It's all coming up darkness for the Jockeys- do they have what it takes to turn it around? There's only one way to find out, snakepunk- read on!
STARBREAKERS: Gunstar Runaways of the Rebel Sky, Volume 3: Starlight Dreams on the Edge of Forever
CLICK HERE TO READ (COVER IN PROGRESS)It's all coming to a head on Ghiscard, and it's coming up fast! Fox and Lisette are locked in a no-holds-barred duel to the death, Claudia just barely has the moons back online, and Rishi and Elegy are still locked in a cell on board the _Calamity and Woe_. The tyrannical Lady Corvus Liyon is on the back foot, but she's not going down without a fight. As the Jockeys get pulled into a centuries-old war between the remnants of Carthagennon, Pegasus rustles up Maako and Robot Peter Chiykowski and stages a daring rescue raid on Kubaryi's ship- but is it enough? Is it truly enough to stop the inexorable darkening of every star in the galaxy?! Has the redemptive power of love finally met its match?!? That's up to you, snakepunk! Witness the thrilling conclusion of the Starbreakers saga in this scintillating final volume, where nothing comes easy, no victory comes cheap, and it ain't over until the sun goes dark.