STATION: graphic novel locked-room mystery on the Int'l Space Station

STATION, a taut locked-room murder mystery set about the International Space Station meets and exceeds Boom! comics' normal high standard for graphic novels. Writer Johanna Stokes and illustrator Leno Carvalho turn the screws on the dramatic tension on every page, leaving you to figure out who killed the Russian scientist on EVA -- the American space-tourist? The visiting Italian and Japanese astronauts? Or was it one of the Russians or Americans on-board? And who keeps sabotaging the life-support?

Stokes is a writer on the Sci-Fi Channel's show EUREKA, and she plots like a TV drama writer -- lots of twists and turns, snappy dialog and quick, deft characterization. Carvalho's art complements the writing nicely, skipping from an expressive, impressionistic to a highly detailed hyperrealism that captures both the claustrophobia of the ISS and the terrifying vastness of space.

Station

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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lettuce

So, I see this, and all I can think of is Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.

You’d think after all this time, those particular brain synapses would have been re-used to remember my kid’s birthday or at least killed off by beer.
mspieg

Dont you mean the “SyFy Channel” ? ;)
( SciFi Channel changing name to SyFy: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29726865/)

Although to me that reads like “Cy-Fee” and always will. This is what happens when nerds try to broaden their demo-appeal.
godfathersoul

Bill and Ted… likewise! My first thought… was the droning overtone voice STA-A-A-A-Tion. Sigh. It’s stuck in there with a thousand simpsons references all hard wired in there during those precious developmental years.
Strophe

Lettuce, I thought I was the only one who made that deranged association.

I may have to check this one out — seems like quite an achievement to present a murder mystery set in space in comic book format.
Eric Hunting

Remember Star Cops? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Cops) Promising premise and smart writing for the time but ultimately even Pocket HAL couldn’t compensate for the lack of production value. Should have been a graphic novel, but maybe too early for that concept.
cinemajay

@2, nerds have nothing to do with that decision. That’s studio executives trying to find a way to put a trademark on sci fi. In any case, it will all be wrestling and movies-of-the-week in less than 18 months.

Oh wait…
Darren Garrison

“So, I see this, and all I can think of is Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.”

Exactly what my first thought was.