Ionheart - by Lukas Kummer (Paperback)

About the Book

"Will you survive the blast? Pursued by a terrifying demon, a young knight flees across the radioactive ruins of a fairy-tale land. His only weapon is the same cursed power that once destroyed this world-what some would call magic, and others would call technology. As his relentless enemy draws closer, the knight's terrible secrets begin to unfold. How many lives has he lived? Is this the past, the present, or the future? Is he destined to bring love, or unimaginable destruction? And if he fails...will humanity get another chance?"--

Book Synopsis

This head-spinning, time-bending graphic novel is a nuclear fusion of fantasy and science fiction whose every page glows with an eerie light. Will you survive the blast?

Pursued by a terrifying demon, a young knight flees across the radioactive ruins of a fairy-tale land. His only weapon is the same cursed power that once destroyed this world--what some would call magic, and others would call technology.

As his relentless enemy draws closer, the knight's terrible secrets begin to unfold. How many lives has he lived? Is this the past, the present, or the future? Is he destined to bring love, or unimaginable destruction? And if he fails...will humanity get another chance?

The English-language debut of Austrian-German graphic novelist Lukas Kummer arrives like a thunderbolt, arcing brilliantly between timelines, genres, and dimensions. This ambitious, atom-smashing book combines trace elements of everything from Tintin to Blade Runner to Adventure Time to The Dark Tower into a deadly breakthrough: intricate, explosive, and entirely new.

Review Quotes

"The best work to date by one of the greatest talents of the German-speaking comic world." -- Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine

"Kummer draws his neon-synthetic universe with a great sense of tragedy, using minimalist style to create epic images." -- Michael Hüster, PPM

"Magical and unpredictable... Kummer's clean lines and bold neon colors propel the proceedings, lending a streamlined Hergé-esque simplicity to tangled plots and unexpected settings." -- Publishers Weekly

"Ionheart is everything great about American-flavored sci-fantasy epics: a brave knight, a magical kingdom, anachronistic tech, epic sword fights, etc. It's the exact perfect fare for Lukas Kummer to make his English-language debut." -- AIPT

"Glorious... What begins as a fantasy becomes a complex meditation on what life is and what it's worth, yet it's also an extremely creative extrapolation of science-fiction possibilities and a brilliant stitching together of past and present.... Ionheart is one hell of a trip and an absolute stunner." -- Slings & Arrows

"An ingenious tale, with a plot that twists in on itself while leaping across timelines." -- Comix Island

About the Author

Lukas Kummer was born and raised in Austria. At the age of 19, he moved to Germany to study fine arts. Since 2014, he has worked as a freelance illustrator and comic book author. He has published several graphic novels in Germany and Austria. Ionheart is his first book to be published in English.