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Geschichten aus Arrakeen

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Zwei faszinierende Comic-Kurzgeschichten aus dem »Dune«-Universum!

Im Chaos der schicksalhaften Schlacht um Arrakeen wird eine Gruppe Soldaten des Hauses Atreides durch einen Erdrutsch in einer Höhle gefangen. Während sein Herzog Leto Atreides um sein Leben kämpft, muss Sergeant Vitt alles dransetzen, um seine Männer zu befreien und irgendwie zurück auf ihren Heimatplaneten Caladan zu bringen. Auf der anderen Seite der Frontlinie sieht sich Jopati Kolona einer folgenträchtigen Entscheidung gegenüber: Er ist einer der Sardaukar, ein Elitekrieger des allmächtigen Imperators, und es ist seine Aufgabe, den Wüstenplaneten Arrakis den Händen der Atreides zu entreißen. Die Pflicht ist das höchste Gut der Sardaukar, und eigentlich sollte diese Mission Grund zur Freude für Jopati sein, denn die Atreides vernichteten einst seine Heimatwelt. Aber ist es wirklich Rache, nach der es ihn dürstet?

Umfasst die »Dune«-Oneshots »Das Blut der Sardaukar« und »Das Flüstern der Meere Caladans

112 pages, Hardcover

First published May 11, 2022

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Brian Herbert

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Brian Patrick Herbert is an American author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Patrick Herbert.

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Profile Image for ♥Milica♥.
1,877 reviews740 followers
June 21, 2025
I realised that I read the first of the two stories previously when I opened this, but I somehow missed the second so at least that one was new to me. The first was better, honestly, the second was just alright. The art is still good, so that's a plus.
Profile Image for Andy.
1,319 reviews92 followers
April 21, 2024
Die Zeichnungen fand ich hässlich.
Die Geschichtchen dünn und vorhersehbar aber als Ergänzung zum ersten Band in Ordnung.
Ohne die Kenntnisse aus "Dune, der Wüstenplanet" ergeben sie für den Leser keinen Sinn.
Profile Image for Corey Allen.
217 reviews14 followers
February 8, 2023
Well, this was disappointing. Tales from Arrakeen tells 2 short stories with characters I could literally care less about.

Blood of the saradukar- We follow a random saradukar agent during the battle of arrakeen. There is also some flashbacks that explain some of the reasons why he hates the Duke so much. And honestly, I could literally care less. This is a character I have never heard of. He’s just some random dude. There was some cool action, but other than that, there’s not much here I care about. -⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

A dream of caladan seas- This time, we get to see to see the war from an atrides solider. Is it any better? No. Not much to say here. Once again some cool action sequences but not much else. - ⭐⭐out of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The art- The only thing, I didn't like about the art was the character designs they looked very off to me.

Overall, this was pretty trash. It baffles me, why you wouldn't tell an interesting story with characters people actually care about.
Profile Image for Daniel.
520 reviews69 followers
March 13, 2024
Zwei One Shots aus dem Dune Universum, zusammengefasst in einem Hardcover.
Beide Geschichten spielen wie der Titel verrät auf Arrakis, in der neuen Hauptstadt Arrakeen während des Hinterhalts der Harkonnen gegen die Atreides.
Eine dreht sich um die Sardaukar Sondereinheit des Imperators und wie ein einzelner Soldat hierher kam. Sein Heimatplanet wurde analog zu Arrakis mit getarnten Elitesoldaten des Imperators überfallen und an die Atreides gegeben als Lehen. Letos Vater lehnte dies Lehen allerdings im Nachgang ab, aufgrund dieser Geschichte, daher werden hier Zweifel gesäht.
Die zweite Geschichte dreht sich um eingeschlossene, verzweifelte Atreides Soldaten, die sich zurück auf ihren Heimatplaneten Caladan wünschen und per Magie dorthinkehren.
Insgesamt okaye Ergänzung zum Dune Universum, nicht so sauber und schön gezeichnet.
Kein Muss
Profile Image for Ronald.
1,457 reviews15 followers
September 29, 2022
Oh right, I read these in single issue back in the day before reading them in this collection, these comics sucked. The first story follows a whiny Sardaukar officer unhappy with his mission of killing off House Atreides and all their servants. The story felt like this was issue one of a new ongoing comic which I thought would be a great way to tell stories in the "Dune Universe". Give the character and those around him more exposure and adventures beyond the Dune story. Instead nope, that is all folks.
The second story is a bunch of Atreides soldiers fail at their job and slowly ever so slowly pine for their homeworld. Then . The story was just whiny and mopey.

Anyway, you are given the chance to write in the Dune universe and this is the best you can do? I have read fanfiction about / in the Dune universe that was better. It is time to move beyond the one night battle of Arrakeen.
Profile Image for Mark N..
181 reviews11 followers
November 17, 2022
I read this because I'm a completionist. I may have to rethink that policy . . .

My grandfather had a saying, "Yeah, you keep f*cking that chicken".

Essentially it means sweating away at a pointless endeavor (I like his version better).
So Brian keeps humping away at his father's legacy, allowing countless after-products of low quality to get churned out (not unlike the Star Wars/Trek franchises . . . )

I think I just need to come to terms with, unless Frank's name is on it, it's a pass.

Mediocre art, & boring stories, not really the stuff graphic novels are meant for.
I would skip it, and for god sakes don't buy it
(luckily my library is well stocked, so my commitment was minimal).
Profile Image for Joe Pranaitis.
Author 23 books87 followers
October 26, 2022
Author's Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring us through the illustrations by both Adam Gorham & Jakub Rebelka two tales from the battle of Arrkeen during the events of Frank Herbert's Dune. The first tale is the Blood of the Sardaukar, this story deals with the last son of a once great house that had been destroyed by the former Emperor and House Atreides, that son fourty years later takes his revenge on the house that brought his family down. Even though Duke Leto had gone to great lengths to give them their planet back. The second tale is A whisper of Caladan Seas, in this tale which has been told to us before in both Tales of Dune books we are trapped with a group of Atreides shoulders who are trapped by Harkonnen bombardment. It isn't until the Freman find the bodies that they find that they all had water in their lungs when they died. This is a great collection and I know that there are more tales from the Dune Universe to come and I'm looking forward to reading them. I highly recommend this graphic novel to all Dune fans.
Profile Image for Chris Lemmerman.
Author 7 books123 followers
December 30, 2024
A collection of two Dune one-shots, both set during the Battle of Arrakeen in which the Atriedes family was essentially wiped out.

Blood of the Sardaukar gives us some insight into the Sardaukar training regime (spoiler alert: it's not fun), while also showing that pretty much everything in this damn universe goes wrong because of the Emperor, whoever is in charge. Then A Whisper Of Caladan Seas reveals some stuff about the way Caladan works outside of the palace. Both of these are decent additions to the canon, but don't really add much we haven't seen elsewhere.
Profile Image for Zedsdead.
1,369 reviews83 followers
March 20, 2024
Two stories from the point of view of soldiers fighting in the treacherous Harkonnen invasion of Atreides-controlled Arrakeen.
--A Sardaukar colonel relates his brutal backstory then finds a tiny way to aid the Atreides enemy with whom he secretly sympathizes. (Leto's heroically noble actions towards the colonel's home planet are just...implausibly simple. Dumb. A writing fail.)
--An Atreides sergeant and master jongleur--a sort of psionic storyteller--leads a few demoralized survivors holed up in a cave. Fremen scavengers eventually find them all dead. (Dull and non-illuminating.)

The production was at least minimally competent but I don't feel I gained anything by this read. At least it was short.
Profile Image for Dakota Morgan.
3,399 reviews54 followers
February 10, 2023
Adequate and satisfying short stories featuring side characters during the Harkonnen invasion of Arrakis. We get one side of the story with a random Sardaukar who has a surprising history with House Atreides. Then we get the other side with a random Atreides soldier who is stuck in a cave after the invasion.

I appreciate the expanded universe nature of these tales - the little people were kind of nameless/faceless in the primary Dune book, so it's good to see that they have feelings and histories too. The art throughout is sometimes inelegant, but it gets the job done. A fine addition to the Dune-iverse, but not required reading.
Profile Image for Eris Tiner.
135 reviews1 follower
November 17, 2024
This book was a let down with pretty art. The characters seemed like an attempt at world building with lackluster results. The overall story of a Sardaukar solider and a member of Atreides guard seemed like a promising prospect especially placed within the same warzone yet it was demised by a story that seemed to only barely build character. The art is the only redeeming qualities of this dreadful book of disappointment.
Profile Image for Javier Calle.
Author 19 books125 followers
February 9, 2025
Dos historias que enriquecen la batalla de Arrakis y, en uno de los casos, da una perspectiva totalmente diferente de lo sucedido y de cómo pequeñas cosas pueden cambiar el destino posterior.
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19 reviews
May 29, 2022
Didn't care too much for the artwork as well as the characters involved. Two stories involving soldiers looking back on their lives and/or being nostalgic of their lives before going into battle. A couple of name drops from the book, but nothing of interest really happens in my opinion
Profile Image for Anja von "books and phobia".
796 reviews15 followers
September 25, 2023
Auch wenn ich nie in die Bücher von Frank Herbert hineinfand, muss ich gestehen, dass mir die Welt unglaublich gut gefällt. Aus diesem Grund griff ich bisher gerne zu den Novels, denn diese schafften es, die wichtigsten Themen kompakt und leicht verständlich zu zeigen.

Mit "Dune: Geschichten aus Arrakeen" präsentierte man nun 2 Geschichten, welche während der Schlacht um Arrakeen spielten. Etwas schade fand ich hier, dass es eben nur 2 Geschichten waren, die beide aus der Sicht von Kriegern erfolgten. Zwar waren sie trotzdem unterschiedlich, aber ich persönlich hätte mir doch noch einen anderen Blickwinkel gewünscht.

Schon die erste Geschichte spiegelte für mich Welt aus Dune wider, denn in "Das Blut der Sardaukar" zeigte sich, wie hier mit List und Tücke versucht wird, ganze Häuser zu stürzen. Hier lernte man Jopati Kolona kennen und durfte erleben, wie er schließlich ein Sardaukar wurde.

In "Das Flüstern der Meere Caladans" ging es da schon etwas ruhiger zu. Man erlebt hier, wie eine Gruppe Atreides-Kämpfer in einer Höhle eingeschlossen wurde. Unter ihnen Sergant Vitt, welcher ein Jongleur ist und den todgeweihten Männern ihren letzten Wunsch erfüllt, nämlich wieder auf Caladan zu sein.

Mir selbst gefielen beide Handlungen, da sie doch die Welt wundervoll präsentierten. Optisch sagte mir der Band auch zu, ich kann aber auch verstehen, wenn man diesen teils doch sehr kantigen Zeichenstil nicht mag. Am Ende findet man schließlich noch eine kleine Covergalerie und einen Einblick in die Produktion des Bandes.

Fazit:

Auch wenn die Geschichten ohne Vorkenntnisse gelesen werden können, kann ich nur empfehlen vorher einen Blick in den ersten Dune-Band zu werfen oder das Buch zu lesen. Gerade der Hintergrund, warum die Schlacht stattfindet, geht ansonsten verloren, genau wie das Wissen über die Harkonnen und Atreides.
269 reviews
April 9, 2023
Die Autoren Brian Herbert und Kevin J. Anderson erzählen uns durch die Illustrationen von Adam Gorham und Jakub Rebelka zwei Geschichten aus der Schlacht um Arrakeen, die in Frank Herberts Dune-Universum stattfinden.

Die erste Geschichte ist „Das Blut der Sardaukar“, in der es um den letzten Sohn eines einst großen Hauses geht, das vom ehemaligen Imperator und dem Haus Atreides zerstört worden war. Dieser Sohn nimmt vierzig Jahre später Rache an dem Haus, das seine Familie zu Fall brachte. Und das, obwohl Herzog Leto alles daran gesetzt hatte, um ihnen ihren Planeten zurückzugeben.
Die zweite Geschichte heißt „Das Flüstern der Meere Caladans“. In dieser Erzählung ist eine Gruppe Soldaten der Atreides gefangen, die durch die Bombardierung der Harkonnen in eine Falle geraten sind. Erst als die Fremen die Leichen finden, stellen sie fest, dass sie alle Wasser in ihren Lungen hatten, als sie starben.
In beiden Storys geht es um den Angriff der Harkonnen auf Arrakeen, erzählt aus zwei verschiedenen Blickwinkeln.

Mich hat sowohl die künstlerische Umsetzung als auch die beteiligten Charaktere nicht allzu sehr überzeugt. Die zwei Geschichten, in denen Soldaten auf ihr Leben, das sie vor den Kampfhandlungen und Konflikten führten, zurückblicken, sind eher oberflächlich erzählt, allerdings sind sie in sich abgeschlossen und können als Ergänzung zur Hauptgeschichte Dune bzw. zur Trilogie Haus Atreides gelesen werden, aber meiner Meinung nach passiert nichts wirklich Interessantes. Wer Sammlungen gerne komplett hat, kann hier aber ruhigen Gewissens zugreifen.
Eine Cover-Galerie und Skriptvorlagen runden das Buch ab.
Profile Image for Andy Hickman.
7,393 reviews51 followers
November 7, 2023
DUNE: TALES FROM ARRAKEEN
Awesome to be re-emersed in the Dune galaxy.

Dune: Blood of Sardaukar ****
“At one time, the Atreides Duke was the person I hated most in the Imperium, because of what he did to my family. Now I’m not so sure..”
Excellent individualised POV of the attack on Arrakis.

Dune: A Whisper Of Caladan Seas ****
Remembering Cadan, “Smell the salt water, the iodine of drying seaweed .. Hear the whisper of waves, the splash of a distant fish .. Listen to the –"
For a bunch of men who are the remnant of Atreides soldiers trapped in the cave-cliffs of Arrakis at the end of the Harkonnen invasion the power of storytelling to alleviate the fear of their pending death is indeed a powerful and magically experience. You imagine this exercise playing out in real life situations such as POW camps or in collapsed mining tunnels.
Profile Image for Bruno Franco Netto.
147 reviews
September 23, 2025
This is a compilation of two short-stories set during and after the battle of Arrakeen, where the House Atreides is destroyed by House Harkonnen with the help of the feared Sardaukar. Both of these stories are brief tales told from the perspective of secondary characters, rather than seen from the perspective of the main characters of the story as in the Dune book. There is nothing here that truly adds to the story or the universe created by Frank Herbert, but these stories are nonetheless pleasant excursions to this fascinating world.
Profile Image for Vail Chester.
862 reviews
November 20, 2025
Just two stories of two sides of a massacre.
One was about a boy who is the last of his family, seeking revenge against who he thinks wronged his house. He eventually becomes one of the elite nameless stormtroopers of the Emperor, and he finds out his hate might be misplaced. But then, he still has no qualms about razing the Atreides estate in the middle of that 1st movie.
The other is about some loyal Atreides soldiers who all wish for home in their last moments hiding in a caved-in tunnel. It's dark & depressing!
Profile Image for Martijn Van.
Author 5 books5 followers
August 29, 2023
There comes a point in the existence of every franchise when familiar existing scenes are described from new angles. This comic is that moment for Dune. The attack on the Artreidis family on Arrakis is told from the point of view of two soldiers. Both on opposite sides of the line of fire. Fine but unnecessary.
Profile Image for Rachel Newhouse.
Author 42 books39 followers
June 30, 2024
These are two one-off stories set around the battle for Arrakis. They're fine, but they definitely have that ret-conned vibe. I like the first story better than the second. The first story actually tied into the main plot of Dune. The second story was mystical and didn't have a real point.

CW: violence, brief language
Profile Image for Christopher Lim.
28 reviews
June 21, 2022
Art not great - purposefully trying to be abstract-ish. I prefer to see the duniverse in more detail - that to me is the purpose of buying the graphic novel instead of reading the novels - I want to see these worlds come alive. Stories are uninspiring
Profile Image for Xiankowaty01.
243 reviews7 followers
September 9, 2024
Oba opowiadania czytałem (były po prostu ok) i mam wrażenie, że lepiej działały w formie tekstu niż komiksu. I jak Szepty są bardzo ładnie narysowane, tak przez formę graficzną trochę straciły na tej atmosferze
Profile Image for Leanne.
95 reviews
June 3, 2022
This is drawn in the same style as the Dune graphic novel series that started last year. It's enjoyable if you like that. The second story is the best.
Profile Image for Al Berry.
694 reviews7 followers
June 7, 2022
Two unique and distinct stories, the first one the art is okay, the 2nd story the art is absolutely atrocious, I couldn’t even finish the story it was that bad. Pass on this drek.
Profile Image for James.
4,304 reviews
June 11, 2022
Seeing the Battle of Arakeen from the point of view of a Sardaukar and a Atreides soldier. I liked the abilities of the Jongleur.
Profile Image for Andres Pasten.
1,187 reviews5 followers
June 17, 2022
Dos relatos sobre la batalla de Arrakeen, uno de Sardaukar y otro de Atreides. Buenos dibujos en el segundo, pero la historia no aporta lo suyo. Pudo ser mejor.
Profile Image for Jefferson.
802 reviews7 followers
June 19, 2022
Interesting stories, if a bit brief, with some nice artwork.
Profile Image for Brendon.
202 reviews4 followers
July 29, 2022
It was fine, more importantly, another beautiful piece of work for the collection.
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