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8house #2
8House: Arclight #2
Two knights hunt an alien creature using blood magic.
30 pages, Unknown Binding
First published July 22, 2015
30 people want to read
About the author
Brandon Graham
196 books199 followersBrandon Graham (born 1976) is an American comic book creator.
Born in Oregon, Graham grew up in Seattle, Washington, where he was a graffiti artist. He wrote and illustrated comic books for Antarctic Press and Radio Comix, but got his start drawing pornographic comics like Pillow Fight and Multiple Warheads (Warheads would go on to become its own comic published by Oni Press in 2007). In 1997, he moved to New York City where he found work with NBM Publishing and became a founding member of comics collective Meathaus. His book Escalator was published by Alternative Comics in January 2005, when he returned to Seattle. His book King City was published by Tokyopop in 2007 and was nominated for an Eisner Award. In May 2009 Graham announced that King City would continue publication at Image Comics and his Oni Press title Multiple Warheads would resume publication after a delay, this time in color. Also at Image he is the writer on Prophet, the return of a 1990s series, with the rotating roster of artists Giannis Milonogiannis, Farel Dalrymple, Simon Roy, and himself.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Born in Oregon, Graham grew up in Seattle, Washington, where he was a graffiti artist. He wrote and illustrated comic books for Antarctic Press and Radio Comix, but got his start drawing pornographic comics like Pillow Fight and Multiple Warheads (Warheads would go on to become its own comic published by Oni Press in 2007). In 1997, he moved to New York City where he found work with NBM Publishing and became a founding member of comics collective Meathaus. His book Escalator was published by Alternative Comics in January 2005, when he returned to Seattle. His book King City was published by Tokyopop in 2007 and was nominated for an Eisner Award. In May 2009 Graham announced that King City would continue publication at Image Comics and his Oni Press title Multiple Warheads would resume publication after a delay, this time in color. Also at Image he is the writer on Prophet, the return of a 1990s series, with the rotating roster of artists Giannis Milonogiannis, Farel Dalrymple, Simon Roy, and himself.
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September 21, 2015
So the story goes on in issues #2 which once more combines the words by Graham with the art by Churchland (which is the best bit). In this issue we get to see more of the world, the society, the queer sexual people and the wonderful, wacky characters. It definitely seems as though people are not limited by stereotypes and gender roles in this series so far, men can dress as women would be 'expected' to and vice versa. The people of the world are all interesting, exciting and full of excellent fashion-sense too (a wonderful bonus). Seeing the parties and societies and the bright lights meeting the darker secrets is just fascinating. I cannot wait for more :)
The artwork is again utterly magical in all senses of the word. There's some cool fights of blue magic meeting red blood magic and some mystical beasts which are very intriguing. We also get to see more of the landscapes and the architecture which is just so organic and pretty. This is definitely a place where high society and the politics of the world are offset by beauty and snark. I love it!!
Also we have a made-up language of runes which help us to read and understand some of the different types of people and I loved that and working it out for myself. I SO hope we return to this part of the world because I loved it and I am so fascinated and intrigued by what on Earth (or rather OFF Earth?) is going on! Another fabulous 4.5*s
The artwork is again utterly magical in all senses of the word. There's some cool fights of blue magic meeting red blood magic and some mystical beasts which are very intriguing. We also get to see more of the landscapes and the architecture which is just so organic and pretty. This is definitely a place where high society and the politics of the world are offset by beauty and snark. I love it!!
Also we have a made-up language of runes which help us to read and understand some of the different types of people and I loved that and working it out for myself. I SO hope we return to this part of the world because I loved it and I am so fascinated and intrigued by what on Earth (or rather OFF Earth?) is going on! Another fabulous 4.5*s
May 9, 2017
????????????????
I only gave it 3 because of the art. I'm super confused and honestly, I don't think it's me.
I only gave it 3 because of the art. I'm super confused and honestly, I don't think it's me.
February 25, 2018
I read this as part of a volume, and it just fell so freaking flat for me. I don’t know what I read or why. The climax of the story was almost anti-climactic. There is never a sense of urgency. The plot was minimally better, and explained a little more, but the relationships between characters is flat and not believable. It was just odd, and The artwork wasn’t my style. It was all just not really for me.
August 30, 2017
Arclight's transformation into a tree-like being is shown in detail here, if anyone wanted to see that. The universe gets more complex with more magic from both Arclight who uses blood and her enemies who use the elements. Also there are dragons.
January 28, 2018
Art remains gorgeous, but the story seems to have come unstuck in time. I feel like I learned little more than I had already gotten from the first issue.
May 31, 2018
Ovo izdanje djeluje samo ko dio cjeline, i zato sam manje zadovoljan nego proslim.
July 25, 2019
Honestly I have no idea what's happening
March 11, 2018
4.25 stars
February 7, 2017
I'm really enjoying Churchland's artwork and want to see more of this world.
October 4, 2015
everything i want from a story tbh
May 1, 2016
I am impatient for more! The world gets more intriguing and beautiful!
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