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Checkout FunnyFact.com | SuperHeroBooks - Amory Wars Volume 1: The Second Stage Turbine Blade (Amory Wars)
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List Price: $14.99
Our Price: $9.77
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Manufacturer: Image Comics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
EAN: 9781582409412
ISBN: 1582409412
Label: Image Comics
Manufacturer: Image Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2008-04-30
Publisher: Image Comics
Studio: Image Comics
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: claudio sanchez, as awesome as you think.
Comment: I could hear past coheed albums playing in my head as I read this great comic book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Huge disappointment
Comment: As I like the C&C albums very much, I bought this comic assuming it would be of the same high, intriguing and creative quality. Boy was I wrong. One reviewer compared the "Amory wars" with films by David Lynch. Well, I am a huge Lynch fan (Mulholland drive is my favorite) and this is in no way of a similar quality.
The drawings are awful, primitive and ugly. The storytelling is clumsy and inelegant. The story is full of childish clichés, the sci-fi aspect of the story is unbearably stupid and the plot is full of infantile superhero clichés. The narrative leading up to the killing of the children was totally unconvincing to me. I never got absorbed in the story at all.
"The Amory wars" has made me understand that creative genius may be domain-specific. Hopefully I put this experience behind me and regain my enjoyment of the C&C albums in the future.
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Summary: Absolutely a must have if you're a Co&Ca fanatic!!!
Comment: This is an excellent companion to go along with their albums. I chose this version over the individual comics because it gave me all 5 issues of The Second Stage Turbine Blade, Vol. 1, in one full book. Claudio (The Writer) is a very talented individual. I do not believe that anyone who is a fan of Co&Ca could be disappointed by this graphic novel.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sweeeeet
Comment: This product (as predicted) is amazing. If you listen to his music, you'll love this graphic novel. If only it had reached me sooner...it took a bit long than predicted, so I ended up rush ordering - - - TOTALLY WORTH IT!
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Summary: Well, Well, Well...
Comment: Obviously the other person who reviewed this product has never heard of "non-linear storytelling"...or of the visionaries Quentin Tarantino or David Lynch who make their living off of telling great and epic pieces using a non-linear format.
The story at this point is supposed to feel like there is something missing...thats because there is...the opening chapter has not been released to the public yet. Think in terms of Kill Bill or Pulp Fiction.
The story shows you the plot and gets you attached to the characters and then will go back and explain who you are really pulling for. (And if I'm not mistaken, the first one or two reveal a little about the past of the main characters) These comics begin telling the story at the beginning of the first album "The Second Stage Turbine Blade", which (as any true Coheed junky would know) is the second chapter in the story. (And it's not that hard to tell what chapter is what based on the albums. The number of the chapter is in the title of the album)
The reason for lack of text and lack of certain characters character development is because there is so much action and suspense building. These stories are building up to a very epic finale (don't want to say too much or ruin it). If anyone has any doubts on where this story is going, then read "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume 1: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness". That graphic novel shows the beginning of the "end" of the story.
And as for the "simplicity" of the whole thing...i believe that if I were telling a story about a galactic apocalypse, androids, fallen angels, robots that can speak to "God", super powers, baby killing, tragic love stories, deceit, and over all Good v.s. Evil...i would HAVE to at least TRY to tell it in the simplest form possible just so i wouldn't lose the reader in a permanent state of confusion.
(on a side note...for more of a background on the story, there is a "sketchbook" that was released under the Amory Wars title that gives a background on each character and an "extended" look at the original opening of the story...)
Over all, the Amory Wars epic is a very new concept to the world...and, even though it seems to pair with other certain stories at times, it is very original in many ways. I believe it is too early to judge the overall story, but i believe we are in store for greater things.
The collected and the comics themselves get 5 stars!
*****
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Editorial Reviews:
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From Coheed & Cambria's Claudio Sanchez, comes a deeper look into the saga behind their best-selling debut album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade! Coheed and Cambria lead a seemingly normal, quiet life with their four children. Yet when villainous forces behind the mysterious keywork reveal hard hitting truth's behind the couple's real nature, a battle begins that crosses all worlds!
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