"Beat Every 1-Up is like a kinetic love letter to the SNES era of gaming, with a great love story and incredible world-building. I want more comics like this!"
Description
A high-action, beat 'em up with a tender heart and a humorous point of view for fans of arcade cabinets and fighting games.
Listen up! This is the fisticuff-filled tale of Princess Helia of Terrager: a natural-born fighter since childhood, Helia must head out into the wider world when her soon-to-be-husband is groom-napped on their wedding day by the atrocious ape, and would-be world conqueror, Gogo. But what does a sheltered princess know of the other realms? Well, not a whole lot. Luckily, Helia is joined by her (only) friend and bodyguard, the ice witch, Sidra. Together, the pair will brave the deserts of Flaterra, the blizzards of Frosterra…uh, you get the idea…until they’ve rescued the wayward prince, thwarted Gogo, and punched every henchman they can find. And maybe, by the end of their journey, Helia and Sidra will realize their connection goes beyond mere friendship… …find out in BEAT EVERY 1-UP, a young adult graphic novel that will bring a new definition to “your princess is in another castle”!
Reviews
"This book dazzles with video game-inspired style. An action packed ride that adventure fans will love!"
"Beat Every 1-Up understands the reason we fell in love with games in the first place. A worthy addition to the lineage of princesses leading the rescue, it carves out its own space with humor, heart, and retro flair."
"Beat Every 1-Up is a great comic. It's a love letter to video games and Saturday Morning Cartoons, and the giant worlds full of strange myths and lore we all tore into as kids. But it's far from just that. It's the big, angry, gay, progressive scream of a generation of nerds fighting to make the world we live in as cool, queer, and neon as the ones we always believed were possible. It's the brightly-colored retro-futuristic flaming punch fighting its way out of our collective guts."
