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The fate of the Meld is at stake. It's time to stop running. * Stunning sci-fi epic by Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire, Batman: Black and White)! Snappy dialogue, eye-catching scenery and a mystery as deep as twenty-two pages can accommodate.ÂComic Book Resources
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24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 17, 2015
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About the author
Rafael Albuquerque
561 books99 followersBorn in 1981, in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, Rafael Albuquerque begun his professional career working for advertising, producing illustrations for local companies. The comic book interest, however, started in 2002, when he decided to work exclusively for the publishing market.
Basically all of his portfolio was shown only at internet, and trough this media came his first comic book job. The Egyptian company AK Comics asked for some samples, and then he got his first gig overseas. Rafael´s colaboration (not only as artist, but sometimes as creator) was very important for the company.
In 2005, with the writer Felipe Ferreira, has created the owner creator graphic novel Crimeland (first called Rumble in la Rambla), published in 2007 by Image Comics.
For Boom! Studios has illustrated series like Savage Brothers (written by Andrew Cosby and Johanna Stokes), Pirate Tales (written by Chris Ward) and Jeremiah Harm (created by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant).
Rafael has also colaborate in antologies like Tales of Fear Agent (with Ivan Brandon) for Dark Horse Comics, Wonderlost (written by C.B. Cebulski) and the Eisner Award nominated 24Seven - vol2.
Nowdays Rafael is an exclusive artist from DC Comics, working in books like Blue Beetle (writtenby Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Matthew Struges), Robin (written by Chuck Dixon) , Stanger Advetures (written by Jim Starlin) and Superman/Batman (written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson).
Basically all of his portfolio was shown only at internet, and trough this media came his first comic book job. The Egyptian company AK Comics asked for some samples, and then he got his first gig overseas. Rafael´s colaboration (not only as artist, but sometimes as creator) was very important for the company.
In 2005, with the writer Felipe Ferreira, has created the owner creator graphic novel Crimeland (first called Rumble in la Rambla), published in 2007 by Image Comics.
For Boom! Studios has illustrated series like Savage Brothers (written by Andrew Cosby and Johanna Stokes), Pirate Tales (written by Chris Ward) and Jeremiah Harm (created by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant).
Rafael has also colaborate in antologies like Tales of Fear Agent (with Ivan Brandon) for Dark Horse Comics, Wonderlost (written by C.B. Cebulski) and the Eisner Award nominated 24Seven - vol2.
Nowdays Rafael is an exclusive artist from DC Comics, working in books like Blue Beetle (writtenby Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Matthew Struges), Robin (written by Chuck Dixon) , Stanger Advetures (written by Jim Starlin) and Superman/Batman (written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson).
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October 22, 2024
EI8HT #1, Rafael Albuquerque, Mike Johnson
Fast paced intensive story. It's got several key elements that make for an enjoyable tale- time travel, dystopia, sci fi, medieval conflict, oh, and dinosaurs
#5- "There's no God in the Meld, soldier. If you need to pray to anyone.. PRAY TO ME."
Fast paced intensive story. It's got several key elements that make for an enjoyable tale- time travel, dystopia, sci fi, medieval conflict, oh, and dinosaurs
#5- "There's no God in the Meld, soldier. If you need to pray to anyone.. PRAY TO ME."
June 19, 2015
Fairy standard SF time travel tale that starts off a bit bland and has issues with internal logical consistency.
I love Albuquerque's art, the work he does in American Vampire is astoundingly good. That's why I was fairly interested in this series when it came out. There are some really wonderful things in the art side of this book, but unfortunately the story side needs a lot of work:
World: The art is wonderful of course, Albuquerque's style is here as is his framing which makes for fun and beautiful world building. I especially love the controlled color pallet and how it was as part of story telling. It made for a very fun and interesting read and allowed the art to drive the story. The world building in terms of narrative though needs a bit of work. The world is fun, the Meld is a fun concept and will allow for some wonderful things to happen in it as there are not rules here. However at this moment the world is fairly half baked and there to serve the story (more below) and has some time travel issues that need to be clarified and dealt with. Overall, it's a fun world and somewhere I'd love to know more about. It's way too convenient and half baked but there is a lot of potential good ideas here.
Story: Once again the art being part of the story and also characters was a wonderful influence from Albuquerque, but that's about all that's really good about the story. 5 issues I felt was way too short for the story that him and Johnson were trying to tell. The first issue was fine, but subsequent issues jumped way too fast and it expected the reader to buy into the tension and the world way to quickly, especially the relationships. It made for a book that was somewhat fun to read but not emotionally connectable. The rules of time travel really need to be worked out in it's internal way for it to work. At this moment it seems to fast and loose and just way too convenient. Also, the villain was poorly misused as after issues of build-up we end with 2 pages worth of payoff which very much disappointed. Pacing issues, logic issues plague this first arc.
Characters: The same issues the story had is also present in the characters. Not enough time and too much info to digest for the reader for us to get into the characters. Any character arcs and developments were rushed and relationships forced. More time needed to be spent on all characters and their personalities, arcs and development. Everything seems to half baked and incomplete here.
I really wanted to love this book as it was from one of my favorite artists. But clearly he is way better at telling stories through art than through narrative. World building was fun but choppy and way too convenient, story was paced poorly with logic issues, and the characters were not relatable to the reader due to pacing and writing issues. This series needs a lot of work, the concept is still super fun with the Meld. I think they need to slow down for the next arc and simply focus on 1 character and tell a small tale while introducing the rules of this world.
Onward to the next book!
I love Albuquerque's art, the work he does in American Vampire is astoundingly good. That's why I was fairly interested in this series when it came out. There are some really wonderful things in the art side of this book, but unfortunately the story side needs a lot of work:
World: The art is wonderful of course, Albuquerque's style is here as is his framing which makes for fun and beautiful world building. I especially love the controlled color pallet and how it was as part of story telling. It made for a very fun and interesting read and allowed the art to drive the story. The world building in terms of narrative though needs a bit of work. The world is fun, the Meld is a fun concept and will allow for some wonderful things to happen in it as there are not rules here. However at this moment the world is fairly half baked and there to serve the story (more below) and has some time travel issues that need to be clarified and dealt with. Overall, it's a fun world and somewhere I'd love to know more about. It's way too convenient and half baked but there is a lot of potential good ideas here.
Story: Once again the art being part of the story and also characters was a wonderful influence from Albuquerque, but that's about all that's really good about the story. 5 issues I felt was way too short for the story that him and Johnson were trying to tell. The first issue was fine, but subsequent issues jumped way too fast and it expected the reader to buy into the tension and the world way to quickly, especially the relationships. It made for a book that was somewhat fun to read but not emotionally connectable. The rules of time travel really need to be worked out in it's internal way for it to work. At this moment it seems to fast and loose and just way too convenient. Also, the villain was poorly misused as after issues of build-up we end with 2 pages worth of payoff which very much disappointed. Pacing issues, logic issues plague this first arc.
Characters: The same issues the story had is also present in the characters. Not enough time and too much info to digest for the reader for us to get into the characters. Any character arcs and developments were rushed and relationships forced. More time needed to be spent on all characters and their personalities, arcs and development. Everything seems to half baked and incomplete here.
I really wanted to love this book as it was from one of my favorite artists. But clearly he is way better at telling stories through art than through narrative. World building was fun but choppy and way too convenient, story was paced poorly with logic issues, and the characters were not relatable to the reader due to pacing and writing issues. This series needs a lot of work, the concept is still super fun with the Meld. I think they need to slow down for the next arc and simply focus on 1 character and tell a small tale while introducing the rules of this world.
Onward to the next book!
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