Seven to Eternity Volume 1: The God of Whispers

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I had some issues with the story, in that there is so much for the reader to learn and understand about the world, there wasn't a lot of time for actual world-building. It's a slower read with tons of exposition and dialog, and several prose pages at the beginning of each issue.

Seven to Eternity : Rick Remender (author), : 9781534319318 Seven to Eternity : Rick Remender (author), : 9781534319318

El dibujo mejora sustancialmente con el paso de los números, aunque sigue teniendo escenas en las que no entiendo lo que se muestra hasta pasados unos segundos de observación. Fitting for a realm composed of magic, much of Zhal is positively radiant, and the veteran colorist digs deep into his palette to distinguish the Mud King’s dingy, fleshy lair from the rainbow hues of the Mosak rescue party. It really goes far beyond the idea of what is a hero and what is a villain, to really ask the tough questions of its characters and its society. Not as great as the previous volume, yet the Springs of Zhal delivers a great epilogue to a story that sadly doesn't have the original number of avid readers during the time when the first issue was published five years ago.To achieve his objective, the Mud King creates a scenario where his beloved daughter Penelope, trying to rescue him, could be slain? This enables the shade of his father, Zeb, to determine whether or not Osidis has indeed listed to the Mud King’s offer, and judge him.

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Faced with the ability to heal himself from a deadly lung disease, he meets a creature which literally lives in another’s dead and is capable of divining truth from lies. StE is such a big story set in a huge world filled with amazingly complex characters driven by such human ideals and impulses… there’s no protagonist or antagonist because everyone is so damn relatable, I loved it. All the characters are so multifaceted, that their roles never fall into a black and white, good or evil, forcing you to question everyone. As the story progresses, and he engages in betrayal and selfishness, we come to question him in small degrees. The plot hinges on big coincidences to manufacture cheap drama (what are the odds that the rebels break into the Mud King's inner sanctum five minutes after our hero arrives, allowing exactly enough time for some menacing exposition and not a second more?I firmly believe that the right is far worse in this regard than the left, but let’s be honest, this is something everyone on all sides is guilty of. And this is a problem with magic stories in general: without limitations and anything can happen, it’s really hard to care about any of it. I often found myself confused with what the characters were saying, how to link their actions to their motivations and what the laws of the universe (or rather, the world) were.

Seven to Eternity, Vol. 4: The Springs of Zhal - Goodreads Seven to Eternity, Vol. 4: The Springs of Zhal - Goodreads

Stuff which, despite very occasional garnishes of humour, operates at a level of operatic bleakness I ought not to go for, should find as tiresome as I do Daniel Warren Johnson's extended mopes – but which instead I find myself gripped by. El mundo y la ambientación me han gustado mucho, no tanto los pasajes del diario del protagonista y tanta reflexión del mismo una y otra vez sobre lo mismo.Remender has built a fantasy world where the hero is defined solely by his convictions, which is something I'm a believer in, so I'm already attached to the character. A band of Mosak Knights - sorcerers of different flavors - manages to capture him, and they set out on the road to a wizard who can sever Garils' hold over the people before killing him. But when I've been unable to enjoy or finish most of Remender's other indie work, the fact that I did finish this and found something to like about it says a lot.

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Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish creator-owned properties.It felt a bit rushed at times, but that might have been a reflection of my own desire not for this series to end. In the oversized opening issue, Adam leaves his family behind with little outward display of emotion, even though we soon learn that he never expects to live long enough to see his wife and seven children again. Draw a straight line from Vietnam through two terms of Dubya to the ascent of Trump, and the power of art to affect social change remains as specious as ever. Spiritbox sees an opportunity to be freed, and the mechanism which has kept his soul from the afterlife is the plot device whereby the swamp-devoured Katie Osidis extracts her revenge.