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 Marassa #1
Publisher: Evoluzione Publishing
Writer: Greg Anderson-Elysée
Artist: Antonello Cosentino
Colorist: Francesco Montalbano
Letters: Justine Birch
Cover: Antonello Cosentino and Francesco Montalbano

Comic book creator Greg Anderson-Elysée has had a great year. His work on Is’nana: The Were-Spider has received the Rising Star Award, the Fan Award for Best Work, and Best Male Character Writer at the 2018 Glyph awards. As the year is winding down Anderson-Elysée is set to release his next independently funded book, Marassa. The story unfolds among the stars as an Afro-futurist space fantasy. From the get go the book is explosive in action as there is a theft and a death and the introduction of a swashbuckling hero name Sa. Through him we meet a cast of characters and see the shape of the afro-infusion that the team has put into the book. From the costumes and visual looks of the people the art team of Cosentino and Montalbano work give the book a much needed feel of weight of a lived in universe. 

Beyond Sa we meet his sister Mara who has married into a royal family of four armed black bodied humanoids who look like they are filled with stars. She shares a bond with Sa that is the form of a extra perception, one that she has passed on along to her kids. Kind of reminds me of Star Wars in hindsight of my first read of the issue. The reunion of the siblings is based around a missing family treasure and Sa needs Mara as his navigator. The interplay of the various relationships in the story are just one of the strong points between the action beats. As a first issue, Anderson-Elysée and his team have set out on what could be an ambitious adventure in the stars with the world building set forth.  

Marassa’s kickstarter is active now here.

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