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= Space Boy (Comic) =

Intro
Space Boy is a popular sci-fi webcomic written and illustrated by Stephen McCranie. It follows the life of a young girl named Amy, who wakes up in the future and navigates the unfamiliar. She takes interest in a quiet classmate, whose very presence is shrouded in mystery, and uncovers a deeper plot as she befriends him.

It began as the first Webtoon comic contest winner in 2015, then later published on March 5th of the same year as a Webtoon original series.

It is an ongoing series, updating every week on Thursdays.

Plot
Amy, the 16-year-old protagonist, and her family is cryogenically frozen for 30 years for the journey to Earth after her father loses his job at a mining colony in deep space. She begins her new life on Earth as she adjusts to her new school and environment. As she makes new friends, she tries to befriend a mysterious, lonesome classmate named Oliver. Although hesitant at first Amy and Oliver develop a bond, and Oliver’s background is revealed.

Oliver is the lone survivor of a young colony in deep space on a mission to reach a location called the Artifact; all passengers on the ship were vaporized during a maintenance accident when he was a young child. Now Oliver is determined to reach the Artifact himself, which is a mysterious location that is believed to have new technologies, materials, and potential for alien life in the universe. His physical body lives alone on the ship in the black abyss of the cosmos. His body on Earth, however, is a robot designed by scientists that perfectly resembles Oliver’s form. It allows Oliver to experience a normal life on Earth by projecting his consciousness into it without being physically there. Details of his identity and the mission are classified to the state, because of this Oliver is not allowed to make meaningful relationships on Earth for fear of disclosing too much. The danger arises when this identity is discovered by Amy, she and her friends are followed and kidnapped. A supernatural specter makes an appearance, threatening to possess Oliver and inexplicably working with the leader of the communications team on Earth.

Major Characters

 * Amy is the protagonist of Space Boy. She’s a kind, friendly girl and describes the people in her life as flavors due to her synesthesia. She considers herself pomegranate-flavored. She has brown hair always tied into upward-facing pigtails and light golden yellow eyes.


 * Oliver is the secondary protagonist of Space Boy. He’s a cold, distant boy that Amy remarks as having no flavor at first. But he gradually reveals his warmer side when he befriends Amy. He has short white hair and grey eyes.
 * Jemmah is Amy's best friend from the mining colony she used to live at. After Amy wakes up on Earth, several years have passed and Jemmah is much older. Despite the age gap, Amy and Jemmah remain good friends and maintain contact. Amy considers Jemmah pineapple and jalapeno-flavored.

Publication
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy won Webtoon’s comic competition in 2015 and got published on Webtoon’s website later that year in March 2015 as an Original. On July 3, 2018, Dark Horse Comics adapted Space Boy into graphic novel books. To date, there are 13 published volumes.

Reception
Space Boy currently has more than 440k followers and a 9.84 rating, with 77.5 million overall views. It is rated #3 in the Originals sci-fi genre. In 2019, it got nominated for the Harvey Award under the Digital Book of the Year category. Since then Stephen McCranie has done interviews on his process and story, with several book reviews since the print publishing.

On November 25th, 2021 a youtube channel called "Space Boy: The Official Fandub" uploaded fandubs of most of the season one webtoon episodes. At the moment it is on hiatus.