Author, Creator, Artist, Cover – Kevin D. Bandt
Author – Megan Bandt
An evil queen who wants to remain young and beautiful by ripping the life force or magic from those gifted with the power. Add an active insurgency, turn coats, and an impending overthrow of the queen and you get a pretty fast paced and well written story from Kevin and Megan Bandt. In all this is a story of people given powers that arrive from outer space, that bring peace to the planet. Until that peace is broken by the machinations of power politics. The gift is both curse and blessing as all things like this could be and the general group name for the magic infused people is “the carriers” There is an evil queen loose that lives in a castle that neutralizes the magic powers of the “carriers”. This leads to a series of atrocities against the carriers that will mean the decimation of the group. Of course we do not go into what will happen with the queen who wants to remain young forever but needs the powers of the carriers to carry out this mission in life.
The story starts off with a carrier that is being brought before the queen who escapes with the aid of Feniks. The two (Lily and Feniks) head on off to one of their friends in a desert town where they find out that one of Feniks friends (Echo) is the leader of an insurgency that is set to topple the queen and her evil rule of the land. The story line gets very complicated very quickly from here as we find out that not only is the insurgency part of the Carriers bid for survival, but that the main advisor to the queen has his own desire for the powers of the Carriers so that he can rule the land. The story line basically follows these three paths after being set up in book one. And who says politics can be a fun happy thing, this is a pretty deeply developed story that promises to keep you engaged throughout the rest of the series. From what I have read to date, this is a story that is worth finding and reading.
I am going to rate this one five of five stars because it is well drawn, easy to read, well colored, and there is a real depth of development in just the first book. All the characters have their own motivations and add to the story line in ways that is unique to them. There is no dead wood in the story line; the characters are part of the fun of the whole thing. The story line is plausible, and this really has a nice punk post punk feel to it. You can find the comic book series currently on Graphicly, but if you can find the printed version of it this one is well worth adding to your physical library. It is a well done story, and this is another reason why independent comic books rock.
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