The First v. 3: Sinister Motives - Softcover

Kesel, Barbara

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9781931484398: The First v. 3: Sinister Motives

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ISBN 10: 1931484392 ISBN 13: 9781931484398

Publisher: Crossgeneration Comics Inc, 2002

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In the land of the First, dissent has erupted into open warfare as Seahn, young turk of House Dexter, has forsaken his ideals and his House to find power on the other side, and with both sides caught up in a tide of emotion and eruption of old hatreds, war seems inevitable. A Graphic Novel. Original.

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From the Publisher:

A former drama major, Barbara Kesel has been in the comic book industry since 1981, when she wrote a Batgirl backup story for Detective Comics while sitting in a tech booth monitoring a college play. Since then she has written for every major comic company as well as served as an editor at DC Comics and worked on almost every DC title, including Watchmen, and developed the DC/TSR line. She then moved on to Dark Horse Comics where she served as editor, then managing editor, and finally as liaison to the Legends line. Somewhere in all this she found time to play with her dogs, do charity work, head fund-raisers, and co-publish her local community newspaper. Now she's just responsible for training new writers and maintaining continuity as well as writing the stories that appear in the titles Meridian, The First, and Crossgen Chronicles.

From School Library Journal:

Adult/High School-Millions of years before humans inhabited what we know as Planet Earth, a race of superhumans known as The First created and destroyed other worlds from their home planet, Elysia. In this collection, Seahn, the green-haired, rabble-rousing outcast from House Sinister, plans to kidnap and murder noble diplomat Pyrem, the leader of the old ruling House Dexter, to gain complete control over Elysia. From this typical, yet intriguing, plot, it's easy to surmise that Kesel descends from classic graphic-novel publishers like DC, Dark Horse, and Legends. And, readers won't be surprised to discover that she packs all of the traditional, superhero-comics tricks into Motives: all-seeing oracles, enchanted weaponry, buxom warrior princesses, epic battles, tragic romance, and mysterious prophecies. Kesel's minimalist dialogue vacillates between flat cinematic clich‚s and overbearingly collegiate vocabulary within a single frame, doing little to complement the compellingly lithe graphics. Also, Motives suffers from an overabundance of secondary characters whose accompanying subplots disperse rather than support the main story line. What results is a shotgunlike approach to graphic-novel writing with Kesel packing too many good ideas into a single story that will confuse and frustrate even the most devout graphic-novel readers.
Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library
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