Bountiful Garden Vol. 1 (Paperback)

A group of teen scientists are shaken from cryosleep ahead of schedule and find themselves facing down a cosmic horror that may already be inside their heads.

In the year 2200, a team of teenage scientists are sent on a terraforming mission to a distant planet. Selected as the best and brightest of their generation, architect Jonas, botanist Marnie, biologist Jane, engineers Anya and Kamari, and security detail Kurt are all put into cryostasis expected to wake up when it is time to prepare to land on their assigned planet. When they are awakened abruptly, ten years early, halted above a strange planet, the teens are tasked with trying to figure out why they’re stalled – or what stalled them. As they break into two teams, one tasked with fixing the ship, the other with exploring the unknown planet below, they’re faced with an increasingly nightmarish scenario as they encounter a cosmic horror that seems to not only have attacked their ship, but also their minds. Collects issues #1 – 5.

Ivy Noelle Weir is an award-winning comic book writer, librarian, and publishing professional. Writing comics and prose for all ages, Ivy is the author of The Secret Garden on 81st Street (Little, Brown for Young Readers), the co-creator of the Dwayne McDuffie Award-winning graphic novel Archival Quality, and her writing has appeared in anthologies such as Princeless: Girls Rock (Action Lab Entertainment) and Dead Beats (A Wave Blue World). Ivy has won multiple awards for her quality work, including the Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree and Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics in 2019, as well as, the American Library Association Emerging Leaders award in 2015.

I draw and, sometimes write, comic books. I complain a lot but I love it and can’t imagine not doing it. I’ve been lucky enough to work with a lot of different publishers on different and varied type stuff. Some of those publishers are TKO, DARK HORSE, IDW, TOP SHELF, BOOM!, A WAVE BLUE WORLD, IMAGE (back up type stuff), MAD CAVE, SCOUT, etc. As well as a heavy assortment of smaller indy publishers.

Justin Birch is a Ringo Award-nominated letterer born and raised in the hills of West Virginia. Lettering comics since 2015, he is a member of the lettering studio AndWorld Design and has worked with AWA, Boom!, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, Mad Cave Studios, and numerous indy publishers. Justin still lives in West Virginia, only now it’s with his loving wife, daughters, and their dog, Kirby.