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Sunstone: Mercy Vol. 3
The third arc of the wildly popular MERCY series, presented in a beautiful, deluxe hardcover!
Loving someone means building a shrine within your heart dedicated to them. A shrine made of good memories and treasured moments. Anne is about to find the shrine of her heart ransacked by none other than the person it was devoted to. As for Ally and Alan, they find themselves straining as a risky hobby grows into an obsession and threatens to destroy all other aspects of their lives. A friendship is about to be put to a test that it may just end up failing. Time to grow up.
Collects MERCY Volumes 6-8
Loving someone means building a shrine within your heart dedicated to them. A shrine made of good memories and treasured moments. Anne is about to find the shrine of her heart ransacked by none other than the person it was devoted to. As for Ally and Alan, they find themselves straining as a risky hobby grows into an obsession and threatens to destroy all other aspects of their lives. A friendship is about to be put to a test that it may just end up failing. Time to grow up.
Collects MERCY Volumes 6-8
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Published November 13, 2024
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Stjepan Šejić
354 books1,549 followersStjepan Šejić is a Croatian comic book writer and artist, known for his work on the series Witchblade, Aphrodite IX, Sunstone, and The Darkness among others.
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January 30, 2025
I was blown away by the first two Sunstone volumes last year and I place them within my Top 3 Comics of all time, that start with an 's' and have two syllables: Sandman, Starman & Sunstone (Just kidding, those three are actually my absolute favourites).
This is a completely new story, labelled as 'Sunstone Mercy' and the author tells me to forget about Sunstone in the foreword of this edition. Fair enough!
This volume tells two stories: The relationship of Alan & Ally, which has been told before (I know, I should forget) and the first relationship of Anne & Laura.
I could criticise that the story is incredibly slow paced, but I really enjoyed seeing how both relationship started, blossomed and then fell apart at a pace, where I could really learn about these characters. This does include even more spicy scenes than previous volumes and also more genitals. Up until I've read Sunstone I would have not touched a book with such a display, but it just works in here and does not bother me.
I credit this mostly to the stellar writing. There's a couple of scenes here, which have been told before in Sunstone and yet the writing is compelling enough to keep me turn page after page. I admit though, that I found the relationship of Anne & Laura more interesting and I wish that the book would have shortened the Alan and Ally parts (slightly), although I'd have liked to see the hint of wrestling that was shown to be expanded (I wonder if anyone will ever read this part, lol).
The artwork is amazing, especially the female characters look stunning.
The worst thing is: I have to wait years for volume 4. Maybe I should the other works of Stjepan Šejić. If I wasn't clear: Everyone should read Sunstone and volume 3 should not be missed either!
This is a completely new story, labelled as 'Sunstone Mercy' and the author tells me to forget about Sunstone in the foreword of this edition. Fair enough!
This volume tells two stories: The relationship of Alan & Ally, which has been told before (I know, I should forget) and the first relationship of Anne & Laura.
I could criticise that the story is incredibly slow paced, but I really enjoyed seeing how both relationship started, blossomed and then fell apart at a pace, where I could really learn about these characters. This does include even more spicy scenes than previous volumes and also more genitals. Up until I've read Sunstone I would have not touched a book with such a display, but it just works in here and does not bother me.
I credit this mostly to the stellar writing. There's a couple of scenes here, which have been told before in Sunstone and yet the writing is compelling enough to keep me turn page after page. I admit though, that I found the relationship of Anne & Laura more interesting and I wish that the book would have shortened the Alan and Ally parts (slightly), although I'd have liked to see the hint of wrestling that was shown to be expanded (I wonder if anyone will ever read this part, lol).
The artwork is amazing, especially the female characters look stunning.
The worst thing is: I have to wait years for volume 4. Maybe I should the other works of Stjepan Šejić. If I wasn't clear: Everyone should read Sunstone and volume 3 should not be missed either!
January 24, 2025
(Zero spoiler review) 2.5/5
Despite having exactly zero interest in the subject matter of this of this series, I found myself rather captivated by the first two deluxe editions. Sure, there were foibles to pick at, but this rather risque slice of life story captivated me in a way I certainly didn't expect. You know, when you remove the naked ladies on every other page. Unfortunately the love affair seems to be over with Volume 3: Mercy. Or maybe we're on a break.
I can't remember exactly how volume two ended (it would have been easy enough to check), but this massive prequel-ish detour seems wholly unnecessary, and was clearly only done to add length to the series as a whole. We get two simultaneous arc's here. One of which is mostly bland and unnecessary. The other is a complete and utter waste of time, completely foregoing anything that comes within a country mile of traditional storytelling, to instead have the two characters just find different ways to engage in BDSM, until they don't anymore. Once you realise that literally NOTHING is going to happen other than a slightly different way to nail each other, you will lose interest at warp speed, if not faster. That, and Sejic's penchant for filling the page with text when far less would have been more, only adds to the terminal pacing and boredom that fills these pages.
That and his sense of humour really grates after the twentieth cringe inducing joke, which is always followed up by some inane rejoinder from the other party. Seriously, I would hate to have to hang out with any of these people for any miniscule length of time. And the increasing feminisation of Alan as his 'story' progressed was beyond insufferable.
Sejic's art and my previous fondness for this series scrapes it into the respectable category, (even though it really doesn't deserve it), but it's really deeply disappointing. I was having a decent time here, right up until I wasn't.
In the grand scheme of things, this is completely and utterly skippable. Here's hoping for a return to form next time. 2.5/5
OmniBen.
Despite having exactly zero interest in the subject matter of this of this series, I found myself rather captivated by the first two deluxe editions. Sure, there were foibles to pick at, but this rather risque slice of life story captivated me in a way I certainly didn't expect. You know, when you remove the naked ladies on every other page. Unfortunately the love affair seems to be over with Volume 3: Mercy. Or maybe we're on a break.
I can't remember exactly how volume two ended (it would have been easy enough to check), but this massive prequel-ish detour seems wholly unnecessary, and was clearly only done to add length to the series as a whole. We get two simultaneous arc's here. One of which is mostly bland and unnecessary. The other is a complete and utter waste of time, completely foregoing anything that comes within a country mile of traditional storytelling, to instead have the two characters just find different ways to engage in BDSM, until they don't anymore. Once you realise that literally NOTHING is going to happen other than a slightly different way to nail each other, you will lose interest at warp speed, if not faster. That, and Sejic's penchant for filling the page with text when far less would have been more, only adds to the terminal pacing and boredom that fills these pages.
That and his sense of humour really grates after the twentieth cringe inducing joke, which is always followed up by some inane rejoinder from the other party. Seriously, I would hate to have to hang out with any of these people for any miniscule length of time. And the increasing feminisation of Alan as his 'story' progressed was beyond insufferable.
Sejic's art and my previous fondness for this series scrapes it into the respectable category, (even though it really doesn't deserve it), but it's really deeply disappointing. I was having a decent time here, right up until I wasn't.
In the grand scheme of things, this is completely and utterly skippable. Here's hoping for a return to form next time. 2.5/5
OmniBen.
July 27, 2025
A great installment in the universe.
I really liked Anne and Allan and can't wait to read more of them..
I really liked Anne and Allan and can't wait to read more of them..
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