Star Fetched Comic
When a mysterious twinkling star appears in the night sky, Rhys Randall—boy genius—embarks on an epic quest to uncover its secrets. With the help of his big sister, Lily, he builds a humorously durable cardboard spaceship and blasts off into a wild, dangerous solar system.
From start to finish, Star Fetched celebrates the pure magic of youthful imagination and the wonder of space travel. Packed with colorful visuals and classic sci-fi escapism, this heartwarming graphic novel will entertain readers of all ages and bring you back to a time when a cardboard box could take you anywhere your imagination dared to go.
Star Fetched: Part One
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(Available in Paperback and eBook formats)
History
The idea for Star Fetched came to me back in 2012, while my wife and I were expecting our first child. As we discussed potential names, two names in particular came up: Rhys and Randall. Every time I heard the two names together, I couldn't help but think of classic sci-fi heroes like Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon; it just had that sound to it. After my son was born (no, we didn't name him Rhys Randall), I started doodling him as a child space hero named Rhys Randall, flying around in a cardboard spaceship and discovering alien life.
In 2018, taking inspiration from Spaceman Spiff and Commander Keen, I began work on a comic about Rhys Randall with the very unoriginal title The Adventures of Rhys Randall". I got about 5 pages in, and life threw a tremendously awesome curveball my way: I got asked to work on a video game with Crescent Moon Games. You can get the details on that here, but the long and short of it is that we ended up turning Rhys Randall into a video game and naming it STAR FETCHED. The task itself was nightmarishly tedious, with all my free time going towards illustrating game assets. However, the hours of work forced me to become a better artist, so when the game was finally finished, I was 1000x more prepared to make the comic... And I've been cranking away ever since.
As mentioned before, the story has changed a lot since its initial conception. Rhys's family is more prominent, and he now has a sister named Lily who monitors his trip from Earth, giving him somebody to confide in along his journey. Rhys as a character has become more defined as well; initially he was just a generic child on a space adventure, but seeing as he is based on my oldest son, I've obviously watched his personality develop over the years from a playful toddler to a brilliant young man (at the rate I'm going, he might be a man when this book is finally finished). With those changes in mind, Rhys has changed to become more of a boy genius who still maintains some childlike naiveté. Don't be deceived; the book isn't as intelligently written as I'm making it out to be, but I guess what I'm getting at is that Rhys has more of a personality than he did at the start.
Progress
As of May 1st, 2026, I officially released PART ONE on Amazon! Part One is the first 51 pages of what is shaping out to be about a 100+ page book. At the time of writing this, I've completed 86 pages of art (fully colored and lettered).
So why the half-release? Two reasons:
1. I just hate keeping you waiting, and with this, you'll get a solid first act at the same length as any other graphic novel.
2. I'm testing out how I feel about Amazon as publisher. Like most indie creators, I had planned on crowdfunding the project, but it all sounded so tedious–Finding printers, dealing with packaging, shipping the books out, creating perks, etc... So I figure if this first release goes well (which, so far so good), I'll use it for Part Two, then again for a collected edition.
If you're interested in seeing more art from this project, I'd suggest going on Twitter (or X? Are we still allowed to call it Twitter?) and searching the hashtag #starfetched. I've basically dominated this hashtag.
My aim is to keep this page updated if anything of note comes up or changes, but for now, your best source of updates on the project is my Twitter (fine, my X).
