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Skylanders: Light In The Dark
New forces have come to Skylands in the Light and Dark elements and the evil candy king, Pain-Yatta, may have found a way to harness those forces for his own, evil deeds. Can Knight Light, Gear Shift and their friends ban together in time to stop the avalanche of candy from crushing all of Skylands? Also included in this volume is "Graduation Day" featuring all your favorite Skylanders Minis!
- GenresGraphic NovelsFantasy
88 pages, Hardcover
First published January 26, 2016
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About the author
Ron Marz
1,644 books122 followersMarz is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil’s Due Publishing’s Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.
Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.
His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).
Photo by Luigi Novi.
Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.
His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).
Photo by Luigi Novi.
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July 22, 2023
Despite the comicwow.com quote on the back, I can actually find a lot not to like about this.
"The storyline is interesting, the artwork is fun, and it's a video game, too! What's not to like?" Actually, there is SO MUCH going on that it's hard to follow. A problem I had with the Skylanders in general was the whole point was to sell the toys-as-dongles, so there are SO MANY characters, and ALL OF THEM should get something approaching equal screen time so each player can maybe see their favourite doing something.
This collection also STARTS with three four-page shorts, and only the third ties into the "main" storyline (or, at least, the subsequent storyline, which is then followed by a completely different storyline). If I were at least a fan and familiar with the characters, then that might be a different story, but it's not terribly approachable for newcomers (even this one, who is vaguely familiar with the dongles-as-toys from having bought a couple that looked cool but didn't learn about them).
The artwork is kind of fun, I guess, but it's also VERY BUSY in a lot of places, because... CANDY. It's as though almost every single individual piece of candy was hand-drawn. Yikes!
And it is, in fact, a video game.
Well, I think Skylanders fans would like this, but newcomers have a slight bit of heavy-lifting to do to get into the story. Mostly, telling who's a "good" guy vs. a "bad" guy (they all look sort of samey).
"The storyline is interesting, the artwork is fun, and it's a video game, too! What's not to like?" Actually, there is SO MUCH going on that it's hard to follow. A problem I had with the Skylanders in general was the whole point was to sell the toys-as-dongles, so there are SO MANY characters, and ALL OF THEM should get something approaching equal screen time so each player can maybe see their favourite doing something.
This collection also STARTS with three four-page shorts, and only the third ties into the "main" storyline (or, at least, the subsequent storyline, which is then followed by a completely different storyline). If I were at least a fan and familiar with the characters, then that might be a different story, but it's not terribly approachable for newcomers (even this one, who is vaguely familiar with the dongles-as-toys from having bought a couple that looked cool but didn't learn about them).
The artwork is kind of fun, I guess, but it's also VERY BUSY in a lot of places, because... CANDY. It's as though almost every single individual piece of candy was hand-drawn. Yikes!
And it is, in fact, a video game.
Well, I think Skylanders fans would like this, but newcomers have a slight bit of heavy-lifting to do to get into the story. Mostly, telling who's a "good" guy vs. a "bad" guy (they all look sort of samey).
June 5, 2017
Read it there are awesome names like pain yatta,lobstar and more!
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