Battle in the Flower Gardens Is a Video Game-Infused Coming-of-Age Story

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Having trained nether nary little a modern maestro than American Vampire co-creator Rafael Albuquerque, Brazilian cartoonist Eduardo Medeiros is decidedly a rising prima successful the comic publication world. Medeiros is pursuing up projects similar Roderick and the City of Morhil and Funny Creek with Battle successful the Flower Gardens, a coming-of-age communicative with a dense dose of video game-flavored nostalgia.

IGN tin exclusively debut the archetypal preview of this caller Comixology Originals graphic novel. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

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Batte successful the Flower Gardens is written, drawn, and colored by Medeiros, with lettering by Deyvison Manes. Here's Comixology's authoritative statement of the book:

Set successful a beauteous beachside town, Battle successful the Flower Gardens follows 2 adolescents connected the precipice of adulthood. Culling from existent beingness experience, Medeiros weaves a communicative of joy, sadness, and the magical feeling of summers that past forever, that volition support the scholar engaged until the precise past page. As for the art, Medeiros has divided the look of the creation into 2 chiseled and compelling styles to seizure the travel of self-discovery and maturation the quality is experiencing.Every summer, Luke goes to the formation with his parents and his champion friend, Mitchell, with whom helium shares assorted geek interests and pastimes. But this summertime everything changes, investigating and altering their relationship forever.Like galore teenagers successful the 90s, Luke and Mitchell find refuge from their parents and the existent satellite successful the arcades. As the summertime lingers on, the boys conflict to navigate their friendship, culminating successful a conflict implicit video crippled skills that has existent beingness consequences and volition reverberate amongst the teenagers forever.

"Battle successful the Flower Gardens is simply a communicative I’ve been wanting to archer for a agelong time," said Medeiros successful a statement. "When I was a young boy, my household had a contented of spending each summertime astatine Capão Novo, a beachside municipality successful confederate Brazil. It's wherever I person immoderate of my fondest memories and overmuch of that has recovered its mode into this book."

Medeiros continued, "This publication is profoundly idiosyncratic and the process of creating it took maine connected a saccharine travel backmost to the days of my youth. I anticipation readers bask the communicative and I promote them to reminisce astir the experiences that person shaped them."

Battle successful the Flower Gardens volition beryllium released connected the Comixology level connected August 25, 2026.

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