Shin Zero Book 1 - by Mathieu Bablet (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The award-winning creators of Carbon & Silicon and Frontier team up for an explosive new series!

Twenty years ago, the last Kaiju, a giant monster from the sea, was defeated by the Sentai, a group of colorful vigilantes. Today, the Sentai are mere shadows of their former selves, relegated to low-paying odd jobs. Warren, Nikki, Heloise, Satoshi, and Sofia try to find their place in this disillusioned world where heroes have disappeared . . .

Review Quotes

"Fighting monsters becomes just a nine-to-five in this slyly funny, unexpectedly affecting slipstream dramedy from Bablet (Carbon & Silicon) and Singelin (Frontier)....Singelin's art, a lively mix of European and Japanese influences, recalls Geof Darrow, Taiyo Matsumoto, and Katsuhiro Otomo, with sweeping multicultural cityscapes and urban detritus. His characters' rubbery, often hangdog expressions show touches of Naoki Urasawa. This charmer is at once an in-the-know parody and a loving expansion of the fantasy genres it references."--- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

About the Author

Born in Grenoble, France, Mathieu Bablet decided he wanted to become an artist and designer by age seven. After high school, he attended the Applied Art School in Chambery, picking up the basics, but it was his proposal for his first graphic novel, A Beautiful Death, that launched him into a career. When noted author Run (aka Guillaume Renard, creator of Label 619) first saw Bablet's work, his publishing future was all but guaranteed. His second book, Adrastea, reimagined classical Greek mythology with a postapocalyptic twist. With that two-volume project, Bablet honed his skill for what would be his first celebrated opus, Shangri La. An official selection of the Angouleme festival in 2017, and selling nearly 100,000 copies in France alone, he had found his forte: universe-building: deep, speculative fantasy fiction with an expansive scope. After a brief but well-deserved break, he began work on Carbon & Silicon in 2018. Upon its release, it was selected as the Best Graphic Novel of 2020 by FNAC, and nominated for the Best Graphic Novel of 2021 by the Association of Comic Book Critics and Journalists (ACBD). In-between these two blockbuster projects, he began a series of connected short stories with a circle of other artists called Midnight Tales, which were serialized by Anakama. These stories laid the groundwork for the universe that would become The Midnight Order. Currently, Bablet is working on his next magnum opus while co-directing Label 619 studio productions with Run, Florent Maudoux, and Guillaume Singelin.