In December, Scout Comics will release Grimm Space, a new take on Jack and the Beanstalk, by Frank Martin and Dan Scalisi.
Jack, a young mechanic, lives in a beat up old space ship called The Beanstalk. The captain is a human woman called “Mom,” and two aliens round out the crew: Zeke, who runs security, and Stilts, who handles their business relations. After a robot malfunctions on the ship, Mom orders Jack to sell it at a space station bazaar. Instead of selling it though, Jack gets sidetracked by a smooth talking alien who persuades Jack to give him the robot in exchange for a strange navigation unit. When he gets back, Mom is angry that Jack didn’t sell the robot and tosses the NAV unit aside, which mysteriously activates itself. As they’re sleeping, the ship somehow finds itself in deep space in front of a massive alien ship. Eager to prove that the NAV unit wasn’t a waste, Jack boards the ship and discovers a giant sleeping alien as well as a bunch of large golden eggs. Excited that they could sell one, Jack picks up an egg, which triggers an alarm, waking the alien. Jack races back to his ship, making it to safety just in time. Later, the crew celebrates their score while, unbeknownst to them, the egg begins to crack.
“Scout Comics has quickly risen as a force in the indie comic world,” said writer Frank Martin in a press release from Scout Comics. “Scout is publishing quality books in so many genres, and as a mash-up of both sci-fi homages and classic fairy tales, I couldn’t be happier that Grimm Space has found a home there.”
Grimm Space arrives on December 07, 2022.
