Astronaut Academy: Splashdown

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Heroes like Hakata Soy don't take vacation! It's summer vacation for the students of Astronaut Academy, and Maribelle Mellonbelly is throwing the best party ever on Beach Planet Yes! But tensions heat up fast when Hakata Soy's arch rival, Rick Raven, arrives. And soon the whole planet is heating up-with a giant volcano threatening to blow its top! Unless they can work together to save the planet, the students of Astronaut Academy will be toast. But can they put aside their differences in time to turn the tides Splashdown is at long last the highly-anticipated new volume in the enduring and beloved Astronaut Academy series-for which we are reissuing volumes 1 and 2 in stunning full color.

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All of the characters are adorable, like hastily drawn Hello Kitty figures, but taken from a broad array of cultural origins. The Wibowos give them dimension with their Technicolor palette.--Kirkus

Author Bio

Dave Roman is the author/illustrator of the Astronaut Academy series and writer of the graphic novels Teen Boat! Race for Boatlantis and Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery. He has contributed stories and art to Goosebumps Graphix: Slappy's Tales of Horror and Nursery Rhyme Comics. Roman is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, a former editor at Nickelodeon Magazine and is currently series editor for First Second's Science Comics. He lives in NYC and draws a webcomic called Starbunny, Inc.