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The Complete Scarlet Traces #3
The Complete Scarlet Traces, Volume Three
Ian Edginton and D'Israeli's critically acclaimed sequel to HG Wells' classic SF The War Of The Worlds continues in this third paperback collection, as the Martians return to Earth to wreck their terrible revenge!
The visionary comic series from Ian Edginton and D’Israeli continues!
It is 1968 and the Martians have finally returned and are ready to wreck their terrible revenge. Can a ragtag team of Humans and Venusian survivors, spread across the solar system, stop the Martian plan to weaponise the sun itself and wipe humanity off the Earth?
This third volume of the critically acclaimed sequel to H.G. Wells' iconic novel The War of the Worlds is 128 pages long.
The visionary comic series from Ian Edginton and D’Israeli continues!
It is 1968 and the Martians have finally returned and are ready to wreck their terrible revenge. Can a ragtag team of Humans and Venusian survivors, spread across the solar system, stop the Martian plan to weaponise the sun itself and wipe humanity off the Earth?
This third volume of the critically acclaimed sequel to H.G. Wells' iconic novel The War of the Worlds is 128 pages long.
128 pages, Paperback
Published March 15, 2022
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About the author
Ian Edginton
798 books148 followersEdginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).
His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.
With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.
He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.
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His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.
With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.
He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.
http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Edgi...
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June 2, 2022
I have to say that I have been following the work of Ian Edgington and artist D'Israeli for some time now and I am so pleased I got my hands on the latest Scarlet traces book. I will admit that I thought that this was the final instalment however it would appear that there are hits of further stories to come we shall see.
The book is a continuation of the storyline from the previous books so it is really hard to comment at all without giving away some sort of spoiler - which I try my best never to do. Enough to say that the artwork is still amazing (as I would have expected) and the storyline fast pace and action packed almost from the first page.
What I would say is that (and its hardly surprising) is that the story is moving further and further away from Wells's original story - now in the 60s the solar system is now a much "bigger" place than anyone could have imagined - and so is the storyline.
A great read and highly recommended to anyone who has read the earlier books
The book is a continuation of the storyline from the previous books so it is really hard to comment at all without giving away some sort of spoiler - which I try my best never to do. Enough to say that the artwork is still amazing (as I would have expected) and the storyline fast pace and action packed almost from the first page.
What I would say is that (and its hardly surprising) is that the story is moving further and further away from Wells's original story - now in the 60s the solar system is now a much "bigger" place than anyone could have imagined - and so is the storyline.
A great read and highly recommended to anyone who has read the earlier books
January 7, 2024
‘I was a journalist during the last war on Mars. I was told an extraordinary tale by a noble soul, why, out of the tens of thousands deployed, had only a few hundred ever rotated home? It could simply have been down to cost, of course, but there was much more to it than that. My interest was piqued! He pulled some strings, got me onto a transport for mars, incognito, of course. I'd been in battle before but I wasn't quite prepared for what lay ahead...
It was chaos. Fortunately it worked to my advantage. People are disinclined to ask questions when they're busy fighting for their lives. 'I made my way to the captured Martian capital, which doubled as the earth force's command centre. I discovered what they didn't want us to know. Why so few men had returned. The Martians were changing, adapting themselves to look like us. Germ-resistant, earth- compatible, indistinguishable from the real thing. No one was shipped home for fear they weren't human.'
I've long had my eye on this series and I was pleasantly surprised when Tania bought me the set for jólabókaflóðið (the Christmas book flood or Yule book flood); the Icelandic tradition of giving a book on Christmas Eve.
This third volume collects Home Front and Storm Front.
The first sees the Martians exact their revenge on Earth. With the interstella fleet destroyed, there is little to no resistance other than from a familiar face and from a rebellious group of Venutian refugees who refuse to be captured again. But help is on it's way!
The second sees the War to end all Wars. Unlikely allies come together against the 'Martians' and we learn more about their history and what caused their descent into the killing mad terrors we see.
This volume rounds off the story well but also leaves it open for potential expansion. I can only hope that more is coming Cracking stuff. Another 5 stars.
It was chaos. Fortunately it worked to my advantage. People are disinclined to ask questions when they're busy fighting for their lives. 'I made my way to the captured Martian capital, which doubled as the earth force's command centre. I discovered what they didn't want us to know. Why so few men had returned. The Martians were changing, adapting themselves to look like us. Germ-resistant, earth- compatible, indistinguishable from the real thing. No one was shipped home for fear they weren't human.'
I've long had my eye on this series and I was pleasantly surprised when Tania bought me the set for jólabókaflóðið (the Christmas book flood or Yule book flood); the Icelandic tradition of giving a book on Christmas Eve.
This third volume collects Home Front and Storm Front.
The first sees the Martians exact their revenge on Earth. With the interstella fleet destroyed, there is little to no resistance other than from a familiar face and from a rebellious group of Venutian refugees who refuse to be captured again. But help is on it's way!
The second sees the War to end all Wars. Unlikely allies come together against the 'Martians' and we learn more about their history and what caused their descent into the killing mad terrors we see.
This volume rounds off the story well but also leaves it open for potential expansion. I can only hope that more is coming Cracking stuff. Another 5 stars.
June 11, 2024
I didn't realize that I was getting the 3rd volume in the series when I got this from the library. It was really hard to follow the storylines because I was missing 2/3 of the backstories. I also had trouble telling one character from another in the graphic drawings, and trouble figuring out where we were, what was going one, and sometimes even WHEN the story had switched locations. Too many aliens, too much jumping around. Not the right piece at the right time for me, and generally speaking, the graphic novel is not my genre of choice, so my feelings about this work reflect that, I am sure..
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February 4, 2021Initially a sequel to Wells' War Of The Worlds which imagined Britain transformed by retro-engineered Martian technology, and used that to continue Wells' project of reflecting imperialism back at us. But the more populous its solar system has become, and the more plates it tries to keep spinning, the more its attempts to combine an internally coherent steam-ish-punk space opera with social commentary and parallels to our own Earth feel awkwardly bodged together.
November 16, 2023
The first volume was brilliant. The second worked but didn't hold me as well. This, the third, was back on form for me. The battle returns home but also shows other life-forms out there. The multiple scenarios jumping from one to the other were well judged. I stand in awe of Edginton and his weekly episodic work and how it really does come together in this book. The kicker at the end left me wanted more immediately!
May 14, 2024
Love this series of books. For a start the initial concept is cool - the british empire expands using technologies they've scavenged from the ill-fated invasion of Earth in War of the Worlds - and added to that there's great characters, fantastic art, and all of the little hints and nods to existing works like Kolchak, Dan Dare, the Man Who Would Be King, UFO etc.
December 28, 2022
Why did I read this? The first one was really good. The second not so much. They're just parping it out at this point.
August 1, 2025
El pandemonium que se inició en el tono anterior avanza pesadamente de una manera que a mi ya solo me permite leer en diagonal. Muchos fuegos artificiales y pace chicha. Aquí me apeo.
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