Put another way, nothing about it really grabbed my interest, and that's coming from someone who has wanted a fuller picture of Claudio Sanchez's vague space opera-themed lyrics for nearly two decades.

The story has some promising elements, but it's all too cluttered and rushed through to digest.

And despite all of the convoluted stuff floating around, it still kind of feels like 'good' and 'bad' are overly simplified. The reader is dragged along from plot point to point so rapidly that there's no time to take in what's going on or to better understand the characters or get a sense of the mythos, which just keeps getting added to (It probably would have been better if there had been six issues just about the first issue). Do they orbit the stars that are powering them (And what does that mean: powering them? The stars power the planets?) Presumably, planets bound together by beams of light don't rotate, so does that mean there's perpetual day/night on opposite sides of the planets? And why do they live in 90's TV-suburbs when there's futuristic space ships zooming around (Not to mention the questionable choice of using real-life names of places like Jersey City and Paris)?Īdditionally, no time is devoted to developing the characters, so their behavior seems implausibly irrational. One of the chief problems is that there's too much thrown at the reader with little-to-no significant set-up I couldn't even get past the physics of Heaven's Fence: 78 planets, aligned in a triangle and bound together by some energy beam. Unfortunately, there are so many problems with everything about the effort, from the artwork to the world-building.

I've been listening to Coheed & Cambria since 2003, and what could be more awesomely nerdy than a comic series to flesh-out the band's sci-fi epic concept albums?!

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