Jessica Abel

A Library Journal Best Book of 2015
Go behind the scenes of seven of today’s most popular narrative radio shows and podcasts, including This American Life and RadioLab, in graphic narrative.
 
Every week, millions of devoted fans tune in to or download This American Life, The Moth, Radiolab, Planet Money, Snap Judgment, Serial, Invisibilia and other

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After meeting the indigenous Martian, Qiqi, Trish Nupindju's life changes forever. Qiqi has taught her to skate on terrain, helping her immensely on her hoverderby (a futuristic roller derby) team. She has also introduced a new way to harvest the moisture essential for life on Mars. But the suits at AREX are watching and they are not pleased. Trish's innovations could cause irreparable damage for everyone in her life-including her team and family!...

Two centuries from now, Trish "Trash" Nupindju lives on the newly inhabited Mars, whose settlers live under harsh and ruthless conditions. Trish dreams of only one thing: becoming a hoverderby star. It seems like making the professional derby team is the only way to escape a future of poverty on her parents' farm. But, what happens when a half-dead Martian shows up on her doorstep and changes everything? Find out in the first volume of the new science...

"Covering advanced topics such as story composition, coloring, and file formatting, Mastering Comics is a vital companion to the introductory content of the first volume"--Amazon.com.

Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. Trish wants desperately to go pro because it seems like the only way to escape a future of poverty and hard labor on her family's moisture farm in Candor Chasma. But even if she could make the team, she's too young to get a contract, and her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.

"The Terror Novas hoverderby team might be champions on the rink, but in the outback, the players are still just Marty Dusters like everyone else, stuck deep in generational debt and indenturement, constantly at risk of being sent off-world to dangerous work assignments by AREX. That is, until their superfan and "skategirl" Trish Nupindju shared with them the secret she learned from the indigenous Martian, Qiqi, that will let anyone, anywhere, harvest...