The Day Five Heroes Stepped Out of My Sketchbook and Into the World
There’s a quiet moment that happens before something becomes real.
It happens when the world is asleep.
When doubt is loud.
When belief is fragile.
It happens when you draw anyway.
The Mighty Five did not begin as a plan.
They began as a feeling.
A feeling that children deserve heroes who are joyful.
Heroes who are kind.
Heroes who are strange, funny, brave, and human.
Heroes born not from perfection but from imagination.
Super Chopstick Girl was the first.
She stood small, but unshakable.
Then came Super Bento Boy, carrying warmth and comfort.
Himawari Hammer, bright as the sun itself.
Slipper Ninja, fast and unpredictable.
And finally, Onigiri-Man, quiet but unbreakable.
They were never meant to stay on paper.
They were meant to step forward.
The Mighty Five Volume #1 is not just a collection of characters.
It is a doorway.
A doorway for children to create.
To draw.
To imagine.
To believe that their ideas matter.
Inside this book, children do more than read.
They learn to draw heroes.
They learn to build worlds.
They learn that creativity itself is a superpower.
This is the first volume.
Not the end.
The beginning.
The Mighty Five are here.
And they are just getting started.
Steven Taylor
— Page & Pause Studios
