Product Description

What is GAAK? It's like "ET"--With teeth. It's like "The Gremlins" if they came from outer space and had great comic timing. GAAK is what you get when you mix Steven Spielberg's "The Goonies" with equal parts of classic 50's style creature feature movies like "The Invaders from Mars".

When aliens from outer space invade a small suburban town and hatch a fiendish plot to take over the earth and meet the original cast of "Star Trek", four misfit kids named Zach, Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs set out to save the world. And do it all before bedtime. After all, tonight's a school night.

Story by Darryl Hughes. Artwork by Monique MacNaughton

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #501883 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 124 pages

The Sequential Tart, March 2004
"...A fresh take on classic themes...If Hughes' quirky humor and creepy horror stylings wasn't enough, MacNaughton's inks are stunning..."

The Webcomic Book Club, January 2005
"...Imagine Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton doing a UFO invasion epic with kids as the heroes..."

Synopsis
What is GAAK? It's like ET--With teeth. It's like The Gremlins if they came from outer space and had great comic timing. GAAK is what you get when you mix Steven Spielberg's "The Goonies" with equal parts of classic 50's style creature feature movies like "The Invaders from Mars". When aliens from outer space invade a small suburban town and hatch a fiendish plot to take over the earth and meet the original cast of "Star Trek", four misfit kids named Zach, Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs set out to save the world--And all before bedtime. After all, tonight's a school night. Story by Darryl Hughes, art by Monique MacNaughton

Customer Reviews

A groovy ghoulie grab bag of scifi goodness!!!
What first drew me to GAAK was it's cover. A brilliant take on the classic creature feature movie posters of the 50's and 60's. And infact GAAK reads as if it could have been one of those fun old creature feature classics. After a creepy opening with our "Goonies" like teen heroes Zach, Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs searching a shadowy cavern for some "thing" that they really don't seem to want to find that ends with a wonderful tip of the hat to H.R. Giger/Alien, we're introduced to Eden'sVille, Maryland and small town life as it's lived there. But once the introductions are over, the fun begins. The US military tracks a giant meteor on a collision course with earth. But this is no ordinary meteor. Why not? Well, it does tricks--Like dodging missles. The army tracks the rouge meteors descent to, you guessed it--Eden'sVille. Where Zach, up late looking at the stars through his telescope, watches the meteor crash land on the outskirts of town. Bringing the hysterically funny, "Star Trek" loving alien Gakk and his posse of "Acme Instant Alien Kreatures" for a not so friendly visit to our little planet. GAAK then goes down two separate roads. As Zach desperately does is best to convince everyone that the sky has fallen and brought uninvited guests of the groovy ghoulie variety; the uber paranoid Clint Eastwood like military leader General Patton (no relation) and his long suffering second in command Colonel Schultz prepare "Operation: No room at the alien" to deal with the alien invasion threat. And the pun, like the fun, is intended. The humor in this fun all ages book should appeal to kids with rough and tumble senses of humor and adults that like spoofs of science fiction. While one would expect a cartoony style from a funny book, Monique MacNaughton's crisp, clean art is instead semi-realistic with lots of creepy shadowing. Very old school EC Comics. All in all, "GAAK" by Darryl Hughes is an awful lot of fun.

Like Spielberg's best!!!
This book reads like every Spielberg movie that you've ever watched and enjoyed. With a little Tim Burton thrown in for seasoning. It's the story of four "Goonies" like misfit kids named Zach, Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs who overcome bullies, annoying brothers and sisters, and disbelieving adults as they try to save the world from kooky aliens from outer space. In the story, Zach witnesses the crash landing of a huge meteor in the woods on the outskirts of the small suburban town Eden'sVille. When two town locals named Teddy and Freddy Baker "disappear" mysteriously while on a camping trip in the woods the night of the meteor crash, Zach becomes convinced that what he saw was out of this world. But no one will believe him. Not even Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs. Convincing them that they have to find out what's going on because no one else will, Zach and his friends go out to the woods to find the meteor crash site and uncover the truth. What they find waiting for them in the dark woods is pure 50's style creature feature as Zach, Jemmy, Plato, Chubs, and the town of Eden'sVille find out that things that go bump in the night--Are better left alone. And I think I've found my new favorite scifi character. With his HUGE Woody Woodpecker hairdo, the alien leader "Gakk" is hysterically funny, off the wall, Jim Carrey acting, William Shatner loving, space oddity who is destined to become a scifi fave. Wonderfully written and illustrated "GAAK" is a groovy ghoulie good time for scifi fans of all ages. Two thumbs up!!!

A SCIFI FUN READ!!!
The best thing that can be said about GAAK is that it keeps a smile on your face while you're reading it. And for scifi fans like me, GAAK has everything that a fun alien invasion adventure should have: Small towns, clever kids, paranoid army guys, kooky lactose intolerant aliens, fanatical William Shatner fans from outer space, and Elvis lives just up the street. I'm grinning just thinking about it. It's a groovy ghoulie good time. Nicely done.