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Glory by Keatinge & Campbell #2
Glory: War Torn
Glory reaches its shocking conclusion! Featuring the introduction of Glory's ultra-violence prone sister, Nanaja, the truth behind their parents' hidden alliance, and a very special guest appearance by Ernest Hemingway!
Collects Glory #29-34.
Collects Glory #29-34.
144 pages, Paperback
First published July 30, 2013
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August 6, 2013
This is the second and final volume of Joe Keating's Glory Saga, and once again, Ross Campbell's art is the main selling point. Fantastic monsters, elaborate armor, and lunatic heroes populate this story of nearly endless bloodshed.
It's difficult to pinpoint an actual plot after finishing the series. I am in no way clear of the justification of the endless battle scenes: why Glory's parents were previously at war with each other, why they made up, why Silverfell sent his armies to attack Glory, or why there was a giant mecha monster God stomping Tokyo. Of course, the reasons for the battle scenes are less important then the character's reactions to them which is the real focus of the story. Glory's ragtag band struggle to keep up with the increasingly epic battles and the continuing shift of enemies while trying to enjoy Paris, hot chocolate, and pizza. Glory's anger drags everyone onward across the globe, eventually to a waffle breakfast at her family's home.
Instead of Riley, Glory dominates the latter half of this series. More and more of her past is revealed, new family members are added to her bloodline menagerie and old lovers appear. Glory's rage drives her to be ever more monstrous and blood thirsty and Riley is left to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop the berzerk alien Goddess.
Strangely, the ending is satisfactory and tragic. This is a crazy series that serves up an equally crazy ending that nonetheless feels true to everything that has come before it. Unlike majority mainstream comics, this story is dense and will be well worth reading again. I'm so glad that books like these get published, wonderful and bizarre as they are.
It's difficult to pinpoint an actual plot after finishing the series. I am in no way clear of the justification of the endless battle scenes: why Glory's parents were previously at war with each other, why they made up, why Silverfell sent his armies to attack Glory, or why there was a giant mecha monster God stomping Tokyo. Of course, the reasons for the battle scenes are less important then the character's reactions to them which is the real focus of the story. Glory's ragtag band struggle to keep up with the increasingly epic battles and the continuing shift of enemies while trying to enjoy Paris, hot chocolate, and pizza. Glory's anger drags everyone onward across the globe, eventually to a waffle breakfast at her family's home.
Instead of Riley, Glory dominates the latter half of this series. More and more of her past is revealed, new family members are added to her bloodline menagerie and old lovers appear. Glory's rage drives her to be ever more monstrous and blood thirsty and Riley is left to make the ultimate sacrifice to stop the berzerk alien Goddess.
Strangely, the ending is satisfactory and tragic. This is a crazy series that serves up an equally crazy ending that nonetheless feels true to everything that has come before it. Unlike majority mainstream comics, this story is dense and will be well worth reading again. I'm so glad that books like these get published, wonderful and bizarre as they are.
February 1, 2015
For all the Rob Liefield bashing that goes on, much of it deserved I think, the guy can create good concepts, even it it does takes others to fully realize what those concepts can be. Much like what was done by Brandon Graham with Prophet, Keatinge builds on Liefield's and Alan Moore's work on Glory, taking her from a Wonder Woman knockoff and giving the reader a much more developed mythology.
Glory has a complicated family history which unfolds in this volume. Two sisters, conflict with both of her parents, and arguably a well handled bi-sexual love life. For those who wants big, bloody, battle scenes there are those to be had. What makes this a slightly above average read is the ambiguity that is created.
Is Glory a bigger danger to those around her than the ones they are tracking down? I don't know if we get a definitive answer, and plot threads are left hanging in case Keatinge returns tot he character.
Glory has a complicated family history which unfolds in this volume. Two sisters, conflict with both of her parents, and arguably a well handled bi-sexual love life. For those who wants big, bloody, battle scenes there are those to be had. What makes this a slightly above average read is the ambiguity that is created.
Is Glory a bigger danger to those around her than the ones they are tracking down? I don't know if we get a definitive answer, and plot threads are left hanging in case Keatinge returns tot he character.
February 19, 2016
I finished reading this and I was very disappointed. First of all, I picked up the last issue of the comic on a whim and I thought it was super cool. It was labelled issue 31, and I wanted to see how they got to what seemed like a very powerful ending. Well, I found out! I read volume 1 and was amazed. The story started with a young woman who had dreams about the past and future of Glory, a very powerful superhero, and was so mesmerized that she sought her out in the present day, then got recruited into her deadly way of life... deadly for regular humans, anyway.
As the story progressed we learned more about Glory's past on earth as well as bits about her home world and race. We were teased with how important her parent's deaths were to her current bleak outlook on life as well as to the future of the earth from some calamity. Meanwhile, the young woman kept having more and more dire visions of the future, out to centuries hence, revealing that whatever is about to happen in the near future has terrible lingering consequences. Finally, at the end of the book, it is revealed that her father - dun dun dun - is alive!
So in this book, it turns out that yeah, so's her mother, and her sister is mean, but then a bigger monster shows up and all four of them are cool with each other, plus there's a baby. Then they kill the bigger monster, and glory flips out into a powerful glowy roid rage form, and the young woman decides that despite seeing the future (where everything is pretty cool and there is space travel), she'll just stand in front of Glory and get eviscerated to snap her back to her senses. So she dies, and they move to the last issue, which admittedly was pretty cool.
Here's the problem though. I think that the story could have gotten there nicely in 31 issues, but that isn't what happened. It was more like 10 issues or less! Turns out Glory was an old character from the nineties that they gave a face lift and a new lease on life... without restarting the numbering on the book!
Long story short... they clearly axed the title at the second book mark, and they threw in a giant monster to wrap everything up. There are plot threads just hanging around all willy-nilly... some that they started up in the last issue! Why did they turn Glory and her family albino anyway? Why does she keep changing size? Why was the POV character dreaming of different times? Why can't glory grow her arm back, when she clearly could last time? Lame.
As the story progressed we learned more about Glory's past on earth as well as bits about her home world and race. We were teased with how important her parent's deaths were to her current bleak outlook on life as well as to the future of the earth from some calamity. Meanwhile, the young woman kept having more and more dire visions of the future, out to centuries hence, revealing that whatever is about to happen in the near future has terrible lingering consequences. Finally, at the end of the book, it is revealed that her father - dun dun dun - is alive!
So in this book, it turns out that yeah, so's her mother, and her sister is mean, but then a bigger monster shows up and all four of them are cool with each other, plus there's a baby. Then they kill the bigger monster, and glory flips out into a powerful glowy roid rage form, and the young woman decides that despite seeing the future (where everything is pretty cool and there is space travel), she'll just stand in front of Glory and get eviscerated to snap her back to her senses. So she dies, and they move to the last issue, which admittedly was pretty cool.
Here's the problem though. I think that the story could have gotten there nicely in 31 issues, but that isn't what happened. It was more like 10 issues or less! Turns out Glory was an old character from the nineties that they gave a face lift and a new lease on life... without restarting the numbering on the book!
Long story short... they clearly axed the title at the second book mark, and they threw in a giant monster to wrap everything up. There are plot threads just hanging around all willy-nilly... some that they started up in the last issue! Why did they turn Glory and her family albino anyway? Why does she keep changing size? Why was the POV character dreaming of different times? Why can't glory grow her arm back, when she clearly could last time? Lame.
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July 30, 2013
I must admit that I would not have read Glory if it wasn't for Ross Campbell doing the artwork. Stories about superheros/super-beings-from-another-dimension really aren't my thing but this one I really enjoyed. The art was just SO good. One of my favourite pages was when there was all the heros that Glory had worked with before showing up for the final battle and there were women and men of all different sizes and real diversity. The story ended up being both tragic and sweet. The reunion at the end of the comic was really touching. There was definitely a nice added layer of humanity to this, even when the main characters weren't human. It was an interesting and believable world. I'm a bit sad there won't be anymore but I felt this was a good tight story, despite all the action there were lots of really emotional moments that I really enjoyed.
April 20, 2018
Kind of sad that series was cancelled after this, I would really like to read more. I think that if the series had continued, this book would be pretty different. Still, for what it is, it's pretty good. They wrap things up, while leaving some stuff open. And the end of one adventure is really just the beginning of another. As we all know, nothing really ends.
November 17, 2016
Qué queréis que os diga, me flipa este personaje...
May 16, 2019
İkinci cilt, hem devasa team-up ile oldukça epik hem de çok duygusal ve etkileyici bir final.
August 1, 2013
Ten times better than the first Volume. I thought the first volume was slow and not full of the title character. This volume fixes all that, full of WAR, Giant Monsters, all the superheros of Image and tons of Glory. We finally get some real backstory to Glory and it is extremely interesting and well done. The writers of this book really knew how to make an awesome Female hero in a kickass world. My big problem with the last issue was the narrator of this story, Riley. I found her annoying and mostly useless, a strong contrast to Glory. yet this volume, they spend less time with her and more with Glory and they kind of explain why Riley is important, and as a reader, you feel like she is more important this issue.
I love this series and it is sad that these are the only two books of it but this volume was a kickass ending to the series.
I love this series and it is sad that these are the only two books of it but this volume was a kickass ending to the series.
August 8, 2022
Glory se prepara a enfrentar a su destino!!!, brazos rotos, secretos familiares, sangre a montones y dioses enojados !!!
LO BUENO: Aparece Nanaja y es un personaje Punk, asesino y rastrero que te da lo mejor del tomo, una actitud asesina y desenfadada y el dibujo de Ross se deleita en este personaje. Hay unas escenas de plea que te hacen doler los huesos , y el arte de Ross esta mucho mejor, mas suelto, detallado.
LO MALO: En el primer tomo se preveia una guerra, traición, sangre, la muerte de una amiga...y eso pasa, pero se pierde la épica, y todo se vuelve una novela en la que se pelea familiares, después se quieren y peleamos contra un mousntruo y hay un amor antiguo y perdido, y ya, muy videojuego.
LO BUENO: Aparece Nanaja y es un personaje Punk, asesino y rastrero que te da lo mejor del tomo, una actitud asesina y desenfadada y el dibujo de Ross se deleita en este personaje. Hay unas escenas de plea que te hacen doler los huesos , y el arte de Ross esta mucho mejor, mas suelto, detallado.
LO MALO: En el primer tomo se preveia una guerra, traición, sangre, la muerte de una amiga...y eso pasa, pero se pierde la épica, y todo se vuelve una novela en la que se pelea familiares, después se quieren y peleamos contra un mousntruo y hay un amor antiguo y perdido, y ya, muy videojuego.
September 24, 2013
Overall I enjoyed reading Glory, but I didn't like volume #two quite as much as the first volume. The creators decided to shorten the story; they argued that it was for the good of the story but I'm not entirely convinced it was. Especially the last few issues felt a little rushed.
That said, I really like Campbell's art and there were a few moments in the book were I had to laugh out loud (the breakfast scene with dad comes to mind), since the story is pretty crazy (kind of in a good way).
Even though the story is a little bonkers I would still recommend the series, because -considering Glory's origins- it's just amazing what Keatinge and Campbell have done with the character.
That said, I really like Campbell's art and there were a few moments in the book were I had to laugh out loud (the breakfast scene with dad comes to mind), since the story is pretty crazy (kind of in a good way).
Even though the story is a little bonkers I would still recommend the series, because -considering Glory's origins- it's just amazing what Keatinge and Campbell have done with the character.
August 28, 2016
El primer tomo me gustó hasta por ahí nomás; este, bastante más. Lástima que se va poniendo cada vez mejor y de golpe, pum, fin. De todos modos, antes de ponerle punto final a la serie, se animan a negarle la resurrección a un montón de personajes. Y teniendo en cuenta que este es un comic de superhéroes, pese a que escapa al género en varios aspectos, que no le pongan puertas giratorias al más allá es de agradecer. Eso sí, esa última maldita página medio que me fuerza a leer Prophet, así que cuando tenga el tomo 1 a mano será su turno.
August 15, 2013
Glory was a great comic and the real weakness in this volume is wrapping up such an expansive story in a handful of issues. I can only assume the abruptness of the ending was a consequence of the book being cancelled. because the first volume set up a big story and this second volume ran around wrapping everything up very quickly. It was a strong ending to the story considering all that. But it just left me wishing we had more time.
January 13, 2015
Way better than the first volume, this is still a plot-free gorefest. I did like the different art styles used for the fun little interludes of Glory's adventures with Hemingway, Picasso and Co, and I love the all shapes, all sizes, properly diverse cast of characters. But the main art is pretty ugly, and Nanaja looks like one of those naff tongue-out mannequins that model cheap leather coats to goths in Camden Market.
July 28, 2015
The second volume of the Keating/Campbell saga rebooting Rob Liefeld's 90's extreme femme-fatale-cashgrab character, concludes its in an amazing way. Glory's legacy of a family torn by war, and everyone caught in the middle has an incredible mix of emotions, heightened by incredible layouts by Campbell.
There's a "Complete Saga" volume now (Collecting the whole run containing Vol. 1 "War Torn, and this one). If you like this type of story I recommend that collected edition better.
There's a "Complete Saga" volume now (Collecting the whole run containing Vol. 1 "War Torn, and this one). If you like this type of story I recommend that collected edition better.
August 23, 2013
I've never read Glory before (by Rob Liefeld or any one else) as I followed the series only when writer Joe Keatinge and artist Ross Campbell took over. Campbell's art is as unique as it is unusual and it really grew on me. I enjoyed the heck out of their contributions and since they've wrapped up I too will check out of any other Glory work unless their names are attached.
January 21, 2014
Y lamentablemente cancelaron la serie, que iba como avión. El cierre fue decente, en todo caso, aunque odié profundamente que apareciera de la nada un enemigo-ex-machina y que los personajes banalizaran su relación como una típica familia gringa. Al final no había mucho espacio para hacer un cierre perfecto, pero se agradece que pudieran cerrar el ciclo.
May 16, 2013
3.5 really since like this book kind of lost its way a bit and the ending was...weird. the impact of the event was minimal for me. i liked it well enough but hmmm. i might change it later. lol it was kind of stupid.
March 25, 2014
What a frustrating read! The drawing was just beautiful and the story had so much potential, but I really think Mr. Keatinge tried to fit too much into too few issues. I wish this could have been expanded to give more depth to an awesome storyline.
April 17, 2014
This is everything I ever wanted in a comic book and it got ripped away from me. I don't know what is it with badass warrior ladies only getting two volumes. The ending was rushed/axed, but it's still one of the best comics I ever read in my life.
August 20, 2013
I'm still accustoming myself to the art style, but I definitely enjoy this take on the Glory mythos. I read it in a single sitting and I'm totally picking the 3rd volume.
April 16, 2015
Glory and her friends go up against her psycho sister, their parents and their family's gods in the conclusion of this series. Good, if rather downbeat in the conclusion.
October 5, 2016
The plot is bizarre and somewhat incomprehensible.
The art is a mess half the time.
So not my thing.
The art is a mess half the time.
So not my thing.
February 22, 2014
Simplemente la Hostia. Una pena que se acabara tan pronto. Supera con creces el primer volumen.
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