Starflake on Thrill World Volume 1
By Nicola Cuti
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As far as Starflake knew, she had always lived on an asteroid among those oozing blobs called jellies. She follows the herd, riding on their backs and, although she can never extend her arms the way they do, she believes she is one of them. Then, one day, she was brought to the great Jelly, Bonoguro, and he explains to her that she is a humanoid, a girl with long white hair, pointed elflike ears strikingly pretty features. She isn’t human. She can live in outer space without any life support, but she resembles an eleven-year-old human girl.
When a human family comes to her asteroid to milk the jellies, Starflake realizes the girl, Molly, is very much like her and shows herself to the girl who lives beneath a bubble. They became companions until Molly and her parents return home. But this is only the beginning of Starflake’s new life as a Starbabe.
A zoo ship crashes on her asteroid releasing a flying dragon. Starflake trains the dragon to become her mount until the zoo ship, whose final destination is Thrill World, captures both of them. Forced to clean cages of the bizarre beasts bound for a planetary zoo, Starflake endures these hardships until she is able to escape. Eventually, with Molly’s help, she tracks her dragon to Thrill World.
Thrill World is a planet designed by Jonas Grebe, to be a haven for children who have been infected with alien diseases. While they are cared for, in a huge hospital complex, they are able to enjoy themselves by visiting the nearby zoo and ride the incredible amusements at the park. But Jonas’ son, Boss Grebe, who now runs the complex, has allowed the park to degenerate into a shantytown where smugglers prowl the streets in search of children to sell into slavery.
Starflake has made a friend of Costas, an undercover Deep Space Ranger, and is determined to expose Boss Grebe’s nefarious plans to the ranger but there are spies and traitors everywhere. Even her dear friend Molly cannot be trusted because of the shape-shifters, one of who has attempted to get close to Starflake, disguised as Molly.
In time, Starflake becomes a celebrity to the children and in order to demonstrate her ability to live in any environment without any aids, she dives into an aquarium tank to swim with ease among the unusual sea beasts. She stays underwater like a mermaid, but when she leaves the tank she finds a fully armed captain and a crewmember from the zoo ship waiting for her, to either recapture her or end her life.
This ends volume one of a two-part adventure.
Nicola Cuti
Nicola Cuti worked as editor, artist and writer for such distinguished comic book companies as DC, Marvel, Charlton and Warren(publisher of "Creepy" and "Vampirella" comics). He created numerous characters including superhero "E-Man", still being published today and the underground classic, "Moonie", which has appeared in men's magazines in full color and in fine collections as Mark Estren's scholarly book "A History of the Underground Comics". He is a two-time winner of the Ray Bradbury Award for writing excellence and a 2009 Inkpot Award winner for his work in Comic Art. Later, Nick moved his wife and daughter to California where he began a new career in animation as a background designer. Such studios as Disney, Universal, Warner Brothers, Marvel Films, Graz Entertainment, Sunbow and Sony Pictures employed him on the following projects “Conan”, “Gargoyles”, “Jungle Cubs”, “Dilbert”, “Biker Mice From Mars”, “Exo-Squad”, “101 Dalmatians” and “Starship Troopers” and others. For the past decade his interests have turned to live action and screen writing where he has been developing a live action series "Captain Cosmos, the Last STARveyer" a science fiction/science fact adventure program for children. "Cosmos" has won the KIDS FIRST! Seal of Approval for excellence in children's video and has been selected for the Kids First! Film Festival. He worked with an independent movie company, Creature Productions, where he produced and wrote three movies for them, "The Gray Ghosts" "Planet of the Reptiles" and "Grub" and has written several screenplays for their future productions. In 2010 Nick started his own company, Ni-Cola Entertainment LLC, where he wrote and produced a sci-fi movie “Tagged!” and three illustrated novels, “Moonie and the Spider Queen”, “Moonie in the Slave Market of Opuul” and “Moonie in Too Many Moons”. For more information please see his listing in Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Cuti or on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193881/
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