legends of zita the spacegirl by ben hatke

With her friends’ help, she is in training to defend her championship when they discover that another player, operating under the protection of High Consul Silla, is presenting herself as Legacy. In this sequel to Legacy and the Queen (2019), Legacy Petrin and her friends Javi and Pippa have returned to Legacy’s home province and the orphanage run by her father. Readers would be hard-pressed to not find something to like in these tales they’re a winning formula of eye-catching aesthetics and plot and creativity, adeptly executed.Ī young tennis champion becomes the target of revenge. Zita’s moxie is positively contagious, and her adventures are un-put-downable. Hatke’s arrestingly vibrant art commands instant adoration of its reader. Faced with saving another planet, the real and fake Zitas must find a middle ground and work together, redefining what it really means to be a hero when they set out to rescue the Lumponians from the cutely named but very deadly Star Hearts, villainous parasites capable of destroying entire planets. A sudden turn of events leads to the real Zita making a felonious-although necessary-decision, instantly transforming her public image from that of hero to outlaw. The bot’s mimicry is so exact that it quickly becomes difficult to tell the real Zita from the impostor.

In the midst of her fame, a lone, archaic Imprint-o-Tron-a robot that was built for companionship but took its 'imprinting' too far-spies a Zita poster and immediately takes on her likeness. Lovable Zita returns in a charmingly dashing interplanetary adventure to save yet another doomed planet from impending peril.Īfter saving both a planet and her best friend, Zita has achieved renown as an intergalactic hero and is greeted with adulation wherever she travels.

Legends of zita the spacegirl by ben hatke