Lost Boy
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The comics debut of accomplished music video director Jay Martin in a beautiful and heartwarming tale of adversity and survival.
In the aftermath of a deadly car accident in the remote Wyoming wilderness, a young boy escapes as the sole survivor.
Stranded, freezing and without anyone around to help him, he struggles to stay alive as he attempts to find his way back to civilization. Along the way, through extreme tests of will, courage, and endurance, he discovers what it truly means to be tested, and learns that the secret to survival isn’t always what you think it is.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Debut creator Martin crafts a tale of desperation and resilience in this haunting survivalist graphic novel. While driving home from a ski trip vacation in the snow-peaked mountains of Wyoming, teenage Jack and his father, who have a strained relationship, encounter a doe in the middle of the road. Jack's father swerves to avoid it, resulting in a fall down a steep rock wall and into a ravine that kills Jack's dad and the deer. Jack survives the ordeal, but the snow is coming down hard and he has minimal supplies—some flares, a few rations, and his cell phone, which doesn't have service. Befriending a fawn that he assumes is the deer's offspring, Jack searches for a way out of the gorge and back to civilization, all the while enduring worsening weather conditions, evading hungry wolves, and navigating the treacherous wilderness. Martin utilizes minimal backdrops rendered in somber blues and blacks with bursts of vibrant reds and fuchsia to portray Jack and the fawn's journey across the harsh winter landscape. Amid the bleakness of Jack's situation lies a self-sustaining theme of hope and redemption that buoys this surreal-feeling read to its resolution. Ages 10–17.
