Beat Every 1-Up

Beat Every 1-Up

What if Sailor Moon and Double Dragon combined into an action-packed queer swords and sorcery romcom? You get Beat Every 1-Up , a high-action beat 'em up with a tender heart and a humorous point of view for fans of arcade cabinets and fighting games! Listen up! This is the fisticuff-filled tale of Princess Helia of Terrager! A natural-born fighter since childhood, Helia must head out into the wider world when her soon-to-be-husband is groom-napped on their wedding day by the atrocious ape and would-be world conqueror, Gogo. But what does a sheltered princess know of the other realms? Turns out, not a whole lot. Luckily, Helia is joined by her (only) friend and bodyguard, the ice witch Sidra. Together, the pair will brave the deserts of Flaterra, the blizzards of Frosterra…uh, you get the idea…until they’ve rescued the wayward prince, thwarted Gogo, and punched every henchman they can find. And maybe, by the end of their journey, Helia and Sidra will realize their connection goes beyond mere friendship… Find out in BEAT EVERY 1-UP , a young adult graphic novel that will bring a new definition to “your princess is in another castle”! " Beat Every 1-Up is like a kinetic love letter to the SNES era of gaming, with a great love story and incredible world-building. I want more comics like this!" -- Joe Eisma, artist ( Student Government, The Other/Half ) "This book dazzles with video game-inspired style. An action packed ride that adventure fans will love!" -- Ben Kahn, author ( Monster High: House Haunters , Mr. Muffins ) " Beat Every 1-Up understands the reason we fell in love with games in the first place. A worthy addition to the lineage of princesses leading the rescue, it carves out its own space with humor, heart, and retro flair." -- Stephanie Williams, author ( Nubia and the Amazons , Temporal ) " Beat Every 1-Up is a great comic. It's a love letter to video games and Saturday Morning Cartoons, and the giant worlds full of strange myths and lore we all tore into as kids. But it's far from just that. It's the big, angry, gay, progressive scream of a generation of nerds fighting to make the world we live in as cool, queer, and neon as the ones we always believed were possible. It's the brightly-colored retro-futuristic flaming punch fighting its way out of our collective guts." -- Jeremy Whitley, author ( Navigating With You , Princeless ) Lan Pitts is an Atlanta-born writer based in Baltimore, Maryland. He learned to read from mini-comics that came with action figures and video game instruction manuals. He's been writing professionally for almost 20 years and doesn't think that'll end anytime soon. Joe Hunter is an artist based out of Toledo, Ohio. Outside of the independently published BEAST HEART! STRIKERS, his work can be found in RADIANT BLACK from Image and the Ringo Award-nominated LOWER YOUR SIGHTS anthology. He likes wrestling, tokusatsu, and people doing cool things in spandex in general. He hates talking about himself and had his very patient fiance write this bio. Frank Cvetkovic is a comic book letterer who hates when people assume that all he does is put words inside bubbles. There’s a little more to the job than that. For instance, sometimes he puts them in boxes. His work can be seen in Hey Mary!, Toxic Summer, and Gatchaman: Galactor.