Hilo #1

D. J. has always felt overshadowed by his siblings’ talents—until a mysterious crash in the woods draws him into something far beyond his usual quiet life. Three years after losing his only friend, Gina, to a move across the country, D. J. finds himself face to face with the unknown, and the one thing he’s always been good at—connecting with people—might be the key to what comes next.

In the cracked earth of a forgotten impact crater, a nameless boy awakens with no past—only the faint echo of a monster named Razorwark in his dreams. Taken in by D.J., he learns to speak by touching words, slowly uncovering pieces of himself, including the name Hilo. As he starts school and adjusts to a world that feels both alien and familiar, he finds that three years have passed—and Gina has come back.

In "Chapter 4 Gina" from Hilo #1, Hilo’s odd mix of innocence and bizarre knowledge stuns his classmates, but it’s his unexpected knack for fixing things that truly stands out. When he and his friends visit Gina at her new home, they find her discouraged by her family’s dismissal of her passion for astronomy—until Hilo effortlessly assembles her telescope in minutes.

In "Chapter 5: Nothing New Ever Happens Here" from Hilo #1, Hilo races to stop another mysterious impact, only to face a towering, reassembling robot that pushes him to his limits. As memories surge back, he fights back with laser fire, defending his friends—until D. J. makes a desperate move to end the threat. When the dust settles, D. J. and Gina find Hilo broken, revealing a truth that changes everything.

In "Chapter 6 Dig" from Hilo #1, Hilo pieces himself back together and recalls his past battles with Razorwark, who threatened those he cares about. The group rushes to D. J.'s home for a tense meal with his high-achieving family, where D. J. shares a quiet moment of doubt—confessing to Gina that he feels out of place, not quite fitting in with her, Hilo, or even his own family.

In "Chapter 7 Run" from Hilo #1, Hilo, Gina, and D. J. race against time when a strange meteor shower reveals it’s actually fragments of colossal robots descending on Earth—each one assembling into a new, larger threat. With the city under siege and the scale of the danger growing, they must fight to stop the final, towering machine before it’s complete.

In "Chapter 8 I Stop Them When They Go Wrong," Hilo confronts a new wave of robotic threats on Earth, forced to reckon with his past when the obliteratron robot attacks. Remembering his failure on his home world—where Razorwark wiped out all life—Hilo must face his fear and defend this new planet, even as he prepares to return to the battle he once fled.

D. J. is reeling from Hilo’s sudden departure, cut off even from Gina, when a desperate message cuts through the silence—Hilo’s warning. Razorwark has opened a portal, and he’s coming to Earth.