Dark Cloud

12-time award winning Graphic Novel, including 3 categories in the Great Southwest Book Festival Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars "Combining gritty realism, mysterious gods, and a noble heroine, Dark Cloud is a vibrant, exciting graphic novel." - Foreword Review In post-apocalyptic Arizona, a young woman with a mysterious connection to the land - and a combat robot - steps forward to confront an evil, militaristic dictator bent on detonating a recently acquired nuke." Meet Dark Cloud, a young woman who comes from a traumatic past that she can't afford to remember, leaving her on high alert and trusting of no one. The sole exception is Ricardo de Castile, the wizard-like engineer who dresses as a Franciscan monk to hide his true specialty and is the creator of the combat robot that has her back. Originally designed as a prototype doomsday weapon by the Federal Government, the combat robot, now renamed Klaatu, has been reprogrammed by Ricardo to fight as part of a team alongside Dark Cloud, the daughter he should have had in the first place. Normally she would prefer to hide from the world as it has become, but when she discovers that her militaristic neighbor, General Stone, has acquired a nuke, Dark Cloud's love for the land will not let her stand idly by. Welcome to the Future West...