![]() ![]() The Earthgirl they meet, Rachel, is overshadowed slightly by the two aliens, but her worries about the fate of her town relate well with today’s economic times. ![]() ![]() Gole is more down-to-Earth (or Budap, in this case) and he helps keep Dalen on track. Dalen is just the type of being who believes there is good in everyone and his attempts to befriend the snobby and clearly up to no good Tunax will make kids chuckle. If they enjoy the beginning, readers will stay for the characters and the enjoyable craziness of the adventure. That familiarity is likely to attract readers, assuming the eye-catching cover doesn’t catch their eye first. His graphic novel opens with a race through a strange desert world, which will inevitably remind readers of Star Wars Episode One. This is because Deas knows how to include the elements that science fiction fans want. Here he sticks purely to the fantastic, but the result is no less enjoyable. ![]() Orca Book Publishers, October 2011, ISBN 978-1-55469-800-4ĭeas is the illustrator for Orca’s Graphic Guides Adventure series which mix exciting adventure fiction with kid-friendly nonfiction instruction. But when they stumble over a mysterious portal that leads to a strange land called “Earth,” even Dalen has to admit that something…fishy…is going on. Dalen refuses to believe that Tunax did anything wrong. By Mike Deas Dalen and Gole, Illustration I received my copies of Dalen and Gole: Scandal in Port Angus yesterday. When Dalen and his buddy Gole lose the annual Junior Jet Race because of a surprise, come-from-behind win by Tunax, they’re suspicious. ![]()
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