Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix Crushing Love Manga Out Now

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Ubisoft Film & Television's Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, out today, is a TokyoPop manga written by Ben Kahn (Immortals Fenyx Rising: From Great Beginnings). Set in the same universe as Netflix's Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, Crushing Love is a prequel story of how Dolph Laserhawk went from the Hero of Eden to rebel without a cause. In the graphic novel, Dolph walks through the best and worst memories of his life and attempts to reconcile with being betrayed by the love of his life.

According to the show's creator and executive producer Adi Shankar, the conventional choice for a story set in Dolph's past might have been a gritty, action-oriented comic book, but he wanted to take a "bold swing, creatively" to instead focus on the love story between Dolph and Alex Taylor.

"In the show, we meet Dolph and Alex at the very end of their love story, and it's unclear how much of their tale up to that point was genuine, and how much was calculated manipulation on the part of Alex," says Shankar. "That's something Dolph secretly wonders, and he never really gets an answer. This book gave us an opportunity to explore their relationship, both the wholesome and toxic parts, in much greater detail."

According to Kahn, manipulation was one of the key themes he wanted to explore in this story, along with how Alex's controlling influence had always been part of the relationship, even when Alex and Dolph were at their happiest: "My north star working on this story, especially given the themes of the show, was that Dolph discovers the most important decision of his life - leaving Eden for good - he didn't actually make it."

Kahn adds that as much as Crushing Love is a story about how Dolph left Eden for the love of