DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test

Name: DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781454948964
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By Hamish Steele

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DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test follows Barney Guttman as he navigates a world turned upside down. Struggling with his family’s acceptance of his trans identity, Barney finds solace working at Phoenix Parks, an eerie amusement park with a dark secret. When a demon king is accidentally summoned, Barney, his best friend Norma, and his possessed dog Pugsley must race to save the world, all while Barney confronts his own fears of first love with fellow park employee Logan. This graphic novel blends workplace comedy, supernatural horror, and LGBTQ+ romance in an imaginative and hilarious adventure.
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DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test is ideal for readers aged 14 and up, especially those who enjoy diverse and inclusive stories. Fans of Hamish Steele’s Netflix series Dead End: Paranormal Park will find delight in this origin story, as will anyone seeking graphic novels that mix supernatural thrills with heartfelt representation and humour.

Barney and his best friend, Norma, are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at the Dead End theme park also means battling demonic forces, time traveling wizards, and scariest of all-their love lives!

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Age range 14+

From the creator of Netflix original series Dead End: Paranormal Park comes the graphic novel series that started it all!

Barney Guttman's life has been turned upside down. His family is struggling to fully embrace his trans identity, but thanks to his best friend Norma, he's just landed a job at Phoenix Parks, a Dollywood-esque amusement park inspired by the long life and career of mysteriously youthful actress and singer Pauline Phoenix. Soon, Barney and his dog, Pugsley, secretly move into the haunted house attraction. Little does Barney know, the house contains a portal to the demonic planes of Hell.

When Courtney, Barney's devilish new roommate, invites a demon king to Earth through the portal, they offer Barney and Norma as flesh vessels for the king, but in a strange twist, Pugsley is possessed instead! It's a race through the park to save Pugsley - and the world - from the demon king's reign of terror that leaves Pugsley with strange and magical side effects. With all of this chaos going on, Barney is also discovering he has a crush on park employee, Logan, so he must face his biggest fear of all... talking to someone he likes.

Follow the lives of this diverse group of friends in this hilarious and moving graphic novel series, complete with talking pugs, vengeful ghosts, and first love.

Part workplace comedy, part supernatural horror adventure, with a splash of LGBTQ+ romance, The Watcher's Test is perfect for fans of author Hamish Steele's TV series Dead End: Paranormal Park who are in search of more adventures, for graphic novel lovers who want more diversity in their reads, or simply as an introduction to the zany, creative, and laugh-out-loud funny world of DeadEndia.

DeadEndia is immediately appealing with its colourful art, unique setting, and funny jokes, but I especially loved the complicated emotional arcs of the characters and the weird, spooky magic underlying everything!' - Molly Knox Ostertag, creator of The Witch Boy

'Heart-warming, heartbreaking, heart-pounding, and heartfelt!' - Marika McCoola, The New York Times bestselling author of Baba Yaga's Assistant

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781454948964

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Union Square & Co.

Illustration: all in color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 240

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Adult Graphic Novels Fiction Graphic Novels Hamish Steele LGBTQ+

About the Author

Hamish Steele (he/they) is a freelance animation director and illustrator who grew up surrounded by legends, myths, and folktales. Since graduating from Kingston University in 2013, Hamish has worked for the BBC, Cartoon Network, Disney, and Nickelodeon, among others. He is the creator of and showrunner for the Netflix series Dead End: Paranormal Park, based on his graphic novel series, DeadEndia, and the Eisner Awardwinning creator of the graphic novel Pantheon. Hamish currently lives in London and can be found online at https://hamishsteele.co.uk/.

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