(previous interviews in this series can be found here.)

Welcome to another installment of 5 Questions with a 5-Year-Old. Today, Zoey chats with Mike Maihack, writer and artist of Cleopatra in Space from Graphix/Scholastic.

If you’re interested in Cleopatra in Space, you’ll definitely want to read our review of the first book: Target Practice. In short, you don’t want to miss this one. It’s fantastic.

A strong, spunky female protagonist. A sci-fi setting with historical flavoring. A good Indiana Jones style adventure. And a whole range of emotions–both expressed by the characters and elicited in the reader. What’s not to love?

Mike is a regular in the Kids Love Comics! area of Baltimore Comic-Con, and we always make it a point to swing by, say hi, and pick up some of his amazing art.

The first Cleopatra in Space book just came off press a few months ago, and it was great to see his table getting a lot of very deserved traffic. His commission list for the weekend filled up fast, which is always nice to see.

As always, all questions are Zoey’s. I simply prompt her with “clue words” so she can remember. (Make sure you turn on subtitles if you can’t make out Zoey’s questions.)

Thanks so much to Mike Maihack for taking the time to chat with Zoey!