They're kids. The army calls them soldiers anyway.
A graphic novel adaptation of The N00b Warriors by Scott Douglas.
Fifteen years ago, a blog post started a war. Now the Forever War is running out of soldiers, and kids as young as thirteen are being drafted.
Sixteen-year-old Dylan Austen and his best friend, Trinity, are marked for Company D: the guinea pigs, the recruits nobody expects to come back. Their training is a video game. Their first battlefield is an abandoned amusement park.
Dylan never wanted to lead. But from the ruined park to the trenches of Seattle, he becomes responsible for Trinity; for Hunter, a thirteen-year-old who won't leave his side; and for a company of kids fighting a war no one can explain. Their commander has his own mission: a legendary golden game console said to send whoever finds it home.
The deeper Dylan goes, the clearer it becomes that the people running this war are playing a game of their own.
Told across nineteen Levels in full-color comic form, The N00b Warriors: Book 1 is a coming-of-age graphic novel and war story about friendship, loyalty, and what it costs to grow up too fast.
Content note: war violence, death of characters including teens. Recommended for readers 13+.
