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Stone Star: Season One #1-5
Stone Star Season One
Collecting Issues #1-5 of the brand-new space-fantasy saga that takes flight on comiXology Originals from fan favorite creators Jim Zub (Avengers, Samurai Jack) and Max Dunbar (Champions, Dungeons & Dragons)!
The nomadic space station called Stone Star brings gladiatorial entertainment to ports across the galaxy. Inside this gargantuan vessel of tournaments and temptations, foragers and fighters struggle to survive.
A young thief named Dail discovers a dark secret in the depths of Stone Star and has to decide where his destiny lies - staying hidden in the shadows or standing tall in the searing spotlight of the arena. Either way, his life, and the cosmos itself, will never be the same!
Stone Star is an action-adventure spectacle bursting with colorful characters and pulse-pounding action! Grab your weapons, gritters, and join the fray!
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. This title is available as part of comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited, and Prime Reading.
The nomadic space station called Stone Star brings gladiatorial entertainment to ports across the galaxy. Inside this gargantuan vessel of tournaments and temptations, foragers and fighters struggle to survive.
A young thief named Dail discovers a dark secret in the depths of Stone Star and has to decide where his destiny lies - staying hidden in the shadows or standing tall in the searing spotlight of the arena. Either way, his life, and the cosmos itself, will never be the same!
Stone Star is an action-adventure spectacle bursting with colorful characters and pulse-pounding action! Grab your weapons, gritters, and join the fray!
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. This title is available as part of comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited, and Prime Reading.
130 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 25, 2019
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About the author
Jim Zub
948 books321 followersJim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past fifteen years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Disney, Warner Bros., Capcom, Hasbro, Bandai-Namco and Mattel.
He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College‘s award-winning Animation program.
He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College‘s award-winning Animation program.
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March 20, 2020
A solid, all-ages tale of a young boy with the power to control machines. He's gets sucked into the same gladiatorial games as his late father by circumstance. This isn't bad at all. It had the feeling of a new sci-fi cartoon.
July 8, 2021
Fun, high-octane action with great character development and plenty of intrigue. The art, colors, and lettering are pitch perfect--bright, vibrant, playful, and kinetic.
It gave me Tellos and Battle Chasers vibes, which is a very good thing in my book.
It gave me Tellos and Battle Chasers vibes, which is a very good thing in my book.
November 14, 2019
This is a read for someone looking for an old fashioned pulp sci fi feel. Which, for me, I do count among my guilty pleasures. Even if this appears to be headed for a space opera/gladiator mashup down the road, and gladiators are meh for me.
Stone Star is the name of the massive starship that bring goods and entertainment to planets. Its biggest show is a gladiatorial show, with of course fights to the death. Dail's father was once a star in said show, before events take place that force Dail into becoming a scavenger.
The characters are interesting enough, Vail and the refugees, and there may be more to Grandoise than we're led to believe from this initial entry.
Fun, not great but fun.
Stone Star is the name of the massive starship that bring goods and entertainment to planets. Its biggest show is a gladiatorial show, with of course fights to the death. Dail's father was once a star in said show, before events take place that force Dail into becoming a scavenger.
The characters are interesting enough, Vail and the refugees, and there may be more to Grandoise than we're led to believe from this initial entry.
Fun, not great but fun.
February 8, 2022
Stone Star doesn't offer anything fancy, but it's a solid, well-developed sci-fi adventure that features some pleasant throwbacks to 90s comics. Narration, for example! I forgot how nice it is to have an omniscient narrator set the scene and offer backstory for characters. Really simplifies the narrative.
In Fight or Flight, we're introduced to the Stone Star, a spaceship/gladiatorial arena, and several denizens. These include Dair, an urchin with a remarkable ability to animate electronics, and Volness, a gruff, one-armed, retired gladiator. These two save a princess from the planet's ruling family and battle the arena's cruel guards. Fight or Flight's pacing is excellent, threading doses of backstory in with big, exciting battles. The conclusion to this first volume is oddly abrupt, though ().
A big plus to Stone Star is Max Dunbar's artwork. Characters have oddly big ears, but the designwork for non-human actors is superb. The arena ship is also fascinating. I'm excited to explore further in future volumes.
In Fight or Flight, we're introduced to the Stone Star, a spaceship/gladiatorial arena, and several denizens. These include Dair, an urchin with a remarkable ability to animate electronics, and Volness, a gruff, one-armed, retired gladiator. These two save a princess from the planet's ruling family and battle the arena's cruel guards. Fight or Flight's pacing is excellent, threading doses of backstory in with big, exciting battles. The conclusion to this first volume is oddly abrupt, though ().
A big plus to Stone Star is Max Dunbar's artwork. Characters have oddly big ears, but the designwork for non-human actors is superb. The arena ship is also fascinating. I'm excited to explore further in future volumes.
January 10, 2021
This is a fun space gladiator story, which feels a lot like a sanitised kids version of something that might be told in a clippier, edgier way in 2000AD. And considering 2000AD is for kids that means there is little edge to this, it seems squarely aimed at everyone. And a space orphan with a "secret power", a space princess, an old crochety mentor and some robots? The art from Max Dunbar is great though, that sweet spot between cartoon and detail, there is a nice play between background and foreground and the character work, and not very alien aliens is solid. But a tale of a space travelling gladiatorial arena leans on a lot of second hand tropes, and a shockingly low body count for the premise. There are plenty of places it can develop, and was a solid read, but could do with being weirder.
March 7, 2025
This was a nice sci-fi story set in a gladiatorial arena built in an asteroid. This was a nice 5-issue story collected in a volume, and it was nice, the art was good, and the characters were nic,e with a little slow start, but gets better, so let's go and see what happens in the Season two and let's Keep on Reading.
I have always loved comics, and I can and I have. I love comics to bits, may the comics never leave my side. I loved reading this and love reading more. You should also read what you love, and I hope you will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics, Diamond Comics, or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics as I just want to Keep on Reading.
I have always loved comics, and I can and I have. I love comics to bits, may the comics never leave my side. I loved reading this and love reading more. You should also read what you love, and I hope you will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics, Diamond Comics, or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many comics as I just want to Keep on Reading.
March 8, 2022
Returning to his indie-speculative fiction comics roots Zub provides a fantastic science-fiction opener in this volume. This is pure space opera, with any number of effective adventure tropes folded in--lost princesses, special orphans, emergent powers, grizzled mentors, but these are things I see as tropes only in retrospect, as I read it it was simply good storytelling.
The story effectively suggests a huge space-opera style world by immediately presenting a plethora of alien beings, both sentient and animal, and setting the story on an itinerant entertainment vessel the Stone Star. The starship Stone Star is a roving gladiatorial arena. We're dropped en media res and learn as we go following Dail, who has been living as an orphaned scavenger amongst the nooks and crannies of the huge ship. He's the rebel scamp, the Dickens street kid, finding a way to survive. He's caught up in larger adventures when he sees the guards that recruit for and control the arena kill some new prisoners, and dives in to save one of them, the Princess Kikkani. Zub fleshes out both Dail and Kikkani, giving us flashes of backstory that let us know their personal, interior journeys and placing them within the world of Stone Star and we see the arena, the bridge, the gladiator's quarters, as well as the bowels of the ship before we're through.
Zub's got a crackling beginning here with a great art team. The line work is clear and solid with an animated feel (not anime, animated), and the coloring is bright and lush throughout so that even as we're meeting all kinds of hard circumstances this has a Star Wars/Indiana Jones adventure vibe as opposed to "dark and gritty." I look forward to more volumes of this one for certain.
The story effectively suggests a huge space-opera style world by immediately presenting a plethora of alien beings, both sentient and animal, and setting the story on an itinerant entertainment vessel the Stone Star. The starship Stone Star is a roving gladiatorial arena. We're dropped en media res and learn as we go following Dail, who has been living as an orphaned scavenger amongst the nooks and crannies of the huge ship. He's the rebel scamp, the Dickens street kid, finding a way to survive. He's caught up in larger adventures when he sees the guards that recruit for and control the arena kill some new prisoners, and dives in to save one of them, the Princess Kikkani. Zub fleshes out both Dail and Kikkani, giving us flashes of backstory that let us know their personal, interior journeys and placing them within the world of Stone Star and we see the arena, the bridge, the gladiator's quarters, as well as the bowels of the ship before we're through.
Zub's got a crackling beginning here with a great art team. The line work is clear and solid with an animated feel (not anime, animated), and the coloring is bright and lush throughout so that even as we're meeting all kinds of hard circumstances this has a Star Wars/Indiana Jones adventure vibe as opposed to "dark and gritty." I look forward to more volumes of this one for certain.
March 8, 2021
Original Hit
I love this title. It was a fun adventure with a great setting and interesting characters. I can't wait to read more. For some reason, it reminds me of Battlechasers, in a really good way. Can't wait to find out what happens next.
I love this title. It was a fun adventure with a great setting and interesting characters. I can't wait to read more. For some reason, it reminds me of Battlechasers, in a really good way. Can't wait to find out what happens next.
October 23, 2021
A well-crafted graphic novel, but I don't think I'm the right audience. To me, it felt like another story about someone with mysterious power living in a galaxy with lots of problems and funky names. If that's your jam, you should read this.
May 4, 2021
This is a fun sci-fi action romp that kind of feels like it came out of somebody's really good homebrew RPG. The Stone Star is a roving arena ship with an entire town within it big enough for there to be an underclass and folks hiding in the cracks. What follows is an adventure as a kid with powers finds himself pulled into the world of gladiators, crime gangs and the other machinations that make life on this ship so dangerous. The story doesn't break much new ground and often feels rather familiar, but the artwork is very fun, the designs are solid, and the overall effort is just too much fun to look at too critically.
August 13, 2021
It’s a little TOO all ages for me. I’m a fan of Zub, and the artwork is very Guardians of The Galaxy, but they really don’t even try to be edgy…almost like they are afraid to be. They throw you right into the action which is unfortunately already a concept and story told countless times before. The only way this works is with some immediate character development which really doesn’t happen. I just don’t feel for any of them.
April 16, 2022
Liked how this one started out, giving me lensmen, sci-fi lord of the rings vibes. The first 5 issues within this volume were good but I think someone might enjoy this more with volume 2. This deserves a perfect 3.5 but I can’t give it a full 4 till I read the next volume.
June 29, 2021
Not a bad start...
April 18, 2022
Cawpile: 4.5* 8.29
April 19, 2022
Space rats
Not too bad. The only thing not to keen on is Dail's sudden power. And why Stone Star did not give them up is a mystery for the next book.
Not too bad. The only thing not to keen on is Dail's sudden power. And why Stone Star did not give them up is a mystery for the next book.
July 2, 2023
Super enjoyable and a solid first entry into this series.
May 22, 2021
8/10 ⭐️
June 19, 2021
I waited a bit to put this review on Goodreads since I wasn’t able to resist reading this galley out of publication date order. Marking as spoilers since it doesn’t get released for a couple more weeks.
The cover alone said to me that I’d like this graphic novel. I really liked this graphic novel! I liked the world building that was introduced, I liked the art and I liked the characters. The characters might have the potential to wind up a little bit of a trope with the plucky orphan, the princess on the run and the cynical old warrior but the introduction to them made them all sympathetic. I really find myself looking forward to seeing more this world. The worst part of reading galley copies sometimes is my wait for the publication date of book two will be all that much longer. If you enjoy a fantasy space adventure (teen appropriate) this is a fun read!
The cover alone said to me that I’d like this graphic novel. I really liked this graphic novel! I liked the world building that was introduced, I liked the art and I liked the characters. The characters might have the potential to wind up a little bit of a trope with the plucky orphan, the princess on the run and the cynical old warrior but the introduction to them made them all sympathetic. I really find myself looking forward to seeing more this world. The worst part of reading galley copies sometimes is my wait for the publication date of book two will be all that much longer. If you enjoy a fantasy space adventure (teen appropriate) this is a fun read!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 3, 2019
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September 20, 2021
SS Season 1
A little torn on what I think of the premise, but I really liked the characters. Definitely want to read at least the next volume
A little torn on what I think of the premise, but I really liked the characters. Definitely want to read at least the next volume
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