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Caroto: The Big Break
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Caroto: The Big Break is a darkly comic graphic novel about ambition, delusion, and sometimes it's better not to meet your heroes.
Jerry Caroto is a carrot-headed nobody from a nowhere town who believes he's destined for greatness. When he lands a chance to audition for the world's most famous superhero team, he thinks he's finally getting his big break. What he doesn't realise is that the tryouts aren't a job interview - they're a televised death maze.
Thrown into a surreal, ultra-violent game show run by a flamboyant, unhinged host, Caroto must survive a series of increasingly dangerous trials alongside a cast of bizarre heroes, monsters, and failures. The line between entertainment and exploitation quickly disappears.
Blending dark humour, satirical commentary, and high-energy action, Caroto: The Big Break skewers superhero culture, reality TV, and the idea that talent alone is enough to succeed. Influenced by underground comics, manga, and Saturday-morning cartoons gone wrong, the book balances absurd comedy with moments that hit uncomfortably close to home.
At over 100 pages, this debut graphic novel delivers a complete, self-contained story packed with bold black-and-white artwork, sharp dialogue, and a world that feels both ridiculous and painfully familiar.
If you like your comics strange, honest, and a little unhinged - Caroto: The Big Break is for you.
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