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Sea of Stars Volume 1: Lost in the Wild Heavens by Jason Aaron, Dennis Hallum
2.0

Aaron is back to his indie work and takes a huge swing to give us a sci-fi coming of age, finding memo, story.

Too bad it mostly strikes out.

The story is almost exactly finding memo in terms of structure. Father and son are together, mother dies, father then loses son after being seperated from son. Son starts to become his own man, becoming stronger with the help of friends, all while his father searches for him through the hardships of survival.

Well finding Memo is great James, what's the issue?

It doesn't have characters worth caring for. Both father and son are kind of boring. The son is least fun and his "powers" is pretty cool. But the rest? Blah. The father is typical "I need my son" but you never feel the gravity of the situation. I also didn't think the art worked all that well, besides a few cool designs, it was typical in space fare.

Overall, a big old skip. Not horrible, but doubt I'll check out volume 2. A 2 out of 5.