Oscar Martin's Solo Vol. 1: The Survivors of Chaos (Graphic Novel)

by Oscar Martin

Overview

Warner Bros Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Oscar Martin – the renowned writer and artist behind Tom and Jerry comics – brings his own imaginative take on a dystopian world of anthropomorphic animals.


In a future ravaged by nuclear wars, the Earth has given birth to an array of new mutated species, which have grown and repopulated the land. But this new world is far from peaceful, and life in it is often short and brutal... 

To make life easier for his poor family, Solo, a young rat, leaves his home to become a warrior. Contending with vicious animals and savage hunters, Solo does everything he can to survive. Warner Bros Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Oscar Martin, creates a unique dystopian world of chaos in an action-packed, heart-breaking tale of one rat's journey to understand what it means to be truly alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782763345
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	01/14/2020
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	336,696
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Oscar Martin is best known for his work on as an artist and writer of ‘Tom and Jerry’ comics, have been published in both Europe and the USA. He has also done a variety of comics for the French Disney magazine Le Journal de Mickey. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Warner Bros for his work on the ‘Tom and Jerry’ series in 2002. 

Editorial Reviews

12/02/2019

Martin, a Spanish cartoonist of European Disney and Tom & Jerry comics, delivers a warrior treatment of the latter in this saga of a burly muscled rodent fighting through a Mad Max–style world. Solo’s postapocalyptic landscape is populated with warring tribes of animals: scavenger weasels, devil dogs, shadowed black cats, and his own species, a tribe of intelligent, overgrown rats hiding in caves and reduced to a primitive society. These animals coexist uneasily with duplicitous humans, and Solo is rat-napped into an all-species gladiator games before finally finding the happiness and family the wanderer aches for. Martin’s art enlivens the survival story with an animated, cartoony style depicting wide-eyed anthropomorphized creatures. The fantastic anatomy of bipedal animals is smooth and natural, and with fluent, energetic tiered panels of fighting action. Muted but robust coloring depicts the tan and brown of an endless scorching desert, subtle grays and whites of a blizzard winter (occasionally splashed with scarlet blood), and black skies ripped with sharper grays on a rainy night. This is the first of Martin’s series of tales of warrior vermin translated for an English-reading audience, and his mythos holds the promise of standing alongside Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo or Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"The fantastic anatomy of bipedal animals is smooth and natural, and with fluent, energetic tiered panels of fighting action ... [Martin’s] mythos holds the promise of standing alongside Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo or Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." - Publisher's Weekly

“A beautifully drawn, gripping action-adventure, coming-of-age story” - Library Journal

“Martin has a gift for scripting action-packed panels, choreographing fight scenes that could be used as storyboards for any Hollywood blockbuster ... 10/10” - The Pullbox

“Turns blades into ballet and combat into a craft. I started reading late one night, intending only to make a start and I read it all the way through in one sitting” - Geek Native

“This graphic novel is for sure one that should be added to your comic book collection” - Pastrami Nation

“Creates a kinetic energy that flows throughout the book” - Comicon.com

“Achilles reborn as a rodent under the guise of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator” - Comic Lounge

“A cocktail of creative brilliance ... Oscar’s artwork is simply out of this world ... 5 out of 5” - Pop Cult HQ

"Solo: The Survivors of Chaos has some of the best action I’ve ever seen in comics. You can clearly see the motions of each character and it makes for an engaging read. It makes sense given the writer’s background working with Tom & Jerry." - 360 Mag

From the Publisher

02/01/2020

In a desolate postapocalyptic world where humans, monsters, and mutated animal people face a daily fight for survival, a young rat named Solo decides his parents and siblings will have a better chance of staying alive with one less mouth to feed and ventures out to fend for himself. As word of his prowess in battle spreads, Solo is captured by humans and forced to compete in savage gladiatorial combat against man and beast alike. As the years pass, Solo becomes legendarily undefeatable and eventually earns an opportunity to gain his freedom. All he has to do is win a free-for-all brawl against three vicious opponents and decide whether there's any point in fighting to survive in a world ruled by brutal violence. Warner Bros. Lifetime Achievement Award-winning cartoonist Martin illustrates Solo's adventures in a style reminiscent of the Tom and Jerry comics for which he's internationally acclaimed, lending a kinetic fluidity to gory action scenes and a sense of warmth despite the spiritual despondency and desolate setting. VERDICT A beautifully drawn, gripping action-adventure, coming-of-age story in which the protagonist must grapple with ferocious enemies and an existential crisis.

Library Journal