Critical Review Of The Short Story Girrison

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Girrison is an artwork of scientific fantasy. It is a story of a “hero” on a journey in a distant world in a distant time. The artwork is a saga of young boy, Jarra, a poor factory worker who dreams of escaping his world of endless sufferings and toils bring him no fulfillment. His fantasy is common among the young. His thoughts are not abnormal. People who have endless series of toils always want an easy escape. Like Jarra, the young soon discovers that fantasies could lead us to a dangerous dead end.

His wish comes through, certainly not according to his plan, when his city was attacked by a dark object, Halodron. However, he escapes the conflict, but only to find himself thrusted into a war of other-worldy magic and weaponry.

As the destructions increases with the unfolding of history, soldiers of a forgotten resurface and the secrets of a mysterious technology know as Girrison comes to light. It scattered remains starts to “reawaken”. It then dawned on the hero that he has very little time and resources
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The artwork is PG rated 13 meaning no sex or bad language and no excessive gore.
Girrison is authored by Tom Lintern. He is an illustrator who started his career in Los Angeles drawing storyboards for various clients such as McDonald's, ESPN, Norelco, Disney, and Nickelodeon. In 2008 he became full time color illustrator in publishing children books after moving to New York.
Girrison is currently on Kickstarter to raise 6000usd in support of the project. So far it has raised 7,818usd with 248 backers. The artwork Garrison has 6 days left for backing. There are actually different category of backing and each category comes with a reward of the printed material which will be delivered to every backers as listed on

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