The critically acclaimed genre-bending adventure of a boy & his dragon continues! Set in Depression Era New York Enrico Savarese has adopted a four-eyed dragon the runt of the litter to train for battle in an illegal underground "sporting syndicate" However Enrico&s dedication is tested when he is forced to confront the brutal reality of training a dragon to fight & one of his closest allies engineers a match that no one is ready for About the Creators Joe Kelly is a founding partner of Man of Action Entertainment the bi-coastal creative studio started in 2000 that created the megahit Ben 10 & Generator Rex for Cartoon Network Man of Action a writers collective consists of creators Joe Casey Joe Kelly Duncan Rouleau & Steven T Seagle Disney Marvel&s Academy Award-winning feature Big Hero 6 utilized the characters & team created by Man of Action as credited in the main titles The film marked the first time Disney turned Marvel comic book characters into an animated film & is also the first film based on a comic book IP to win an Academy Award In comics Kelly&s Eisner-nominated I Kill Giants (illustrated by Ken Niimura) received numerous awards & accolades domestically & internationally including the " International Manga Award" in 2012 & was named the one of the " Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens" by the Young Adult Library Services Association upon its release Now I Kill Giants is in pre-production as a feature film with a script by Kelly & producers including Man of Action Entertainment Chris Columbus& 1492 Pictures XYZ Films & Treehouse Pictures Kelly&s legendary Superman story Action Comics 775 " What&s So Funny About Truth Justice & the American Way?" was turned into a hit DC Universe 2012 animated film Superman vs The Elite scripted by Kelly He&s long been credited with revising & revitalizing Deadpool Kelly&s other comic book projects include the dark irreverent comedy Bad Dog Four Eyes the genre-splicing revenge tale about dragon-fighting in depression-era Manhattan & BANG!TANGO a crime noir thriller that is violent sexy & perverse — while simultaneously an examination of violence sex & perversion