Earthlight Volume 2

Earthlight #2

by Stuart Moore, Christopher Schons (Illustrator)

Earthlight has survived catastrophic accidents, political strife, and clamorous discord. But now the lunar colony faces a deadly threat from the very power satellites that orbit the moon, beaming much-needed energy back to Earth. Terrorists have seized the Power Bases, plunging Earthlight into darkness. Worse, they threaten to burn whole Earth-cities to ashes if their demands aren't met. And for fifteen-year-old Damon Cole, it's a disaster that will strike closer to home than he could have ever imagined.

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Young Adult

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 2006

About the author

STUART MOORE is a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor.

Among his current writing projects are THE ZODIAC LEGACY, created and cowritten by Stan Lee and published by Disney, featuring an all-new team of teenaged super heroes in a series of illustrated prose novels and graphic novels; DOMINION: LAST SACRIFICE, a comic book series for Amazon/Jet City; and THANOS: DEATH SENTENCE, an original Marvel prose novel. Recent work includes EGOs, an original comic book series from Image Comics, and GARTER'S BIG SCORE, an original ebook novella for Kindle. He also contributed two series, TEACH and OUT WITH A BANG, to the launch of the online comics app Stela. Other comics work includes WOLVERINE NOIR and NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (Marvel); FIRESTORM (DC Comics); assorted Star Trek and Transformers projects; and the science-fiction graphic novels EARTHLIGHT, PARA, SHADRACH STONE, and MANDALA. Prose writing includes the novel version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR, and Disney Worldwide's JOHN CARTER: THE MOVIE NOVELIZATION.

Reviews

[Jeff Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

again with the obvious plot points.

[Ange (Our Epic TBR List) Schmelzer · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Earthlight colony is still trying to find balance and feel safe after it's terrible terrorist takeover that was perpetrated by some of their own, but Damon's father also has to keep the colony from being shut down by Earth. While the grown ups are busy as usual with their jobs and fixing the mess leftover after the takeover; the kids are left with no one. What will happen next? Will the colony stay open? Will the video they kids decide to make about Earthlight help?
This one was a nice carry through from Volume 1, but the ending was great! It left me dying to read the next one!!

[J-Lynn Van Pelt · Rating 3 out of 5]

After his mother, the former school teacher and closet terrorist from British People’s Anarchist Revolutionary Army, takes over the moon’s power station, Damon finds himself in the middle of a fight for world power.

The graphic novel is like two separate stories combined, it starts off with an action packed adventure and then phases into a social commentary. While the ending couldn’t hold up to the cliffhanger in the first volume, it did make me think.