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The Sword Volume 1: Fire (Sword)
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Image Comics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781582408798
ISBN: 1582408793
Label: Image Comics
Manufacturer: Image Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 152
Publication Date: 2008-06-25
Publisher: Image Comics
Studio: Image Comics
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Editorial Reviews:
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It was a day like any other for Dara Brighton, a promising young college student, until three strangers knocked on her door, looking for a unique sword, and destroyed her life! A modern day fantasy series from the creators behind Ultra and Girls!
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Summary: Awesome x 1000
Comment: I read a lot of graphic novels, books, and comics, and this ranks up there among my favorite. Inventive, action-packed, and very cinematic. This is comics done right. Love it.
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Summary: I've been saying it for years
Comment: The dynamic duo that is the Luna Brothers have been impressing me ever since I purchased Ultra. While some of their stories are unique or a new take on an old genre If you take the time to read these comics you will find brilliance. One thing you will notice about their comics is that there is a bit more dialog going on than most comics. It really helps flesh out the characters and helps broaden the world. I will say it now, if you like this then pick both Ultra and Girls.
SPOILERS!!!
The story is that of a young college girl, Dara Brighton, who is disabled from the waist down and just trying to get through everyday life. She has a great best friend who is with her through thick and thin and a supporting family who does just the same. Her entire life comes to a crashing halt when three mysticaly powered strangers come to her house and demand her father gives them their sword. The father denies knowing anything about the sword causing the strangers to kill her entire family. During the course of this debacle Dara crashes through the floor of her now destroyed home. She find the sword under the house and is miraculously healed of paralysis and thus begins the rest of the tale.
The art of this comic is what i would call deceptive art. It's not necessarily the most highly detailed but it easily conveys the story and there is a suprising amount of violence and gore. The closest way I can describe it is adult Saturday morning cartoon. It's pretty colourful and continues in the same style that their other comics were in. It's very much their own when it comes to the art.
I'am quite pleased with how the story started with this volume and volume 2 comes out in December so I will be picking that up as well. The only thing I can say that might through more casual comic reader off is the amount of dialoge. Like I said before thee is a lot but I feel it helps the story out very nicely. I personally can't wait for the next volume.
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Summary: Great Art, Great Story
Comment: I bought this on the recommendation of Blair Butler on G4TV, and I am not disappointed. It was a very good book. The back story of the 4 and the sword they created was very well drawn, and rivals many other comics that I have read. I look forward to seeing what the Luna brothers do for the second book.
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Summary: Blew my mind.
Comment: KAPOW! (my mind blowing up). Thats what it was like when I first picked this up. I had never heard of the Luna Brothers before though I read the first issue of The Sword online at the image website and shortly bought the first trade. The art is amazing, and the dialogue is on par with some of my favorites (Kirkman, Ennis). After reading this I checked out their other work which includes Ultra and Girls. Ultra I didn't like too much, but Girls, again, blew my mind.
Back to The Sword, it's a story of a disabled girl whose family is killed by 3 intruders looking for a mystical sword that her father supposedly had. She is the lone survivor and when she finds the sword it cures her disabilities and gives her great powers, but only when she's holding it. I can see why the three intruders wanted it so bad, but why? Well, you'll just have to read to find that out!
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