Check out the Glyph award nominations for Earthlight!

"...I can assure you that Earthlight will appeal to both the traditional manga and comic audiences."
~CBG Xtra review by Billy Aguiar


"Moore's tale is a coming of age story set in a larger narrative of speculative science fiction and socio-political futurism. Moore gives Damon's trials and tribulations both poignancy and edge. His observations on technology and society are plausible and engaging—just what sci-fi needs to make it interesting and relevant...

...[Mr. Schons] is a virtuoso at drawing sci-fi tech, gear, sets, and environments that are more science than they are fiction and fantasy. His character drawing is expressive and hyper dramatic, but his art can be subtle and human."
~Leroy Douresseaux, Comic Book Bin



In space nobody can hear you angst… I think....

...It’s the year 2068 and we’re visiting Earthlight Lunar Colony… three months after an “accident” which seemingly has killed three. This may mean nothing, but as the book ends this “incident” may mean everything… then again maybe not. Whet your whistle yet?

Anyway it’s 2068 and newbie to space life Damon Cole has just arrived on this international “melting pot” of scientific discovery and global tensions aka Earthlight Lunar Colony. There he finds good old fashioned teen angst (which he’ll suffer a bit since his mom is this totally hot female teacher, and his dad is the Chief Admin of the whole colony) and hatred of those different than you (in this case good old fashioned Mobile Suit Gundam hatred between spacers and “weeders” from Earth) in the form of a violent punk boy who likes to harass our man here while he whacks around his girlfriend (if Damon so becomes her new boyfriend after the old one… I don’t know… falls out of an airlock or explodes or whatever… then good riddance)? Yeah, his days in the colony isn’t going to be a good one… for him, but for you that’s something different.

First off notice how beautifully drawn this title is. Artist Christopher Schons really pulls out a nice tour de force of visual splendor and manga beauty that just looks good.

Stuart Moore, as the writer, takes what could have been a simple teen angst in space book and gives it a bit more depth which makes it more than just a cookie cutter also-ran sci-fi teen epic, from the grave tidings of its opening volley through the relationship woes of newcomer Cole to Earthlight, to a shocking end when one of the cast turns out to be a “terrorist” and holds the world hostage… but is his/her reason for this really what he/she says it is? Or is there more to this than meets the eye? The book ends with you wondering just what the heck is going to happen next… which should bring you right back here when the next volume hits wanting more...

...4 petitions for a monument to James “Scotty” Doohan on the moon out of 5.

~Anime Boredom review by David Rasmussen 20th Mar 07