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Volume
One: Flying Solo |
| by Barbara Kesel, Steve McNiven, & Joshua
Middleton |
Paperback: 192 pages
CrossGen Comics
ISBN: 1931484031 |
$19.95
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| MERIDIAN
is the story of Sephie, a sheltered young girl whose life resembles nothing
so much as a fairy tale. The beloved only child of the Minister of Meridian,
she grows up with an entire floating city as her playground. Then her father
dies, and she inherits a sigil imbued with the power to create. So does
her wicked Uncle Ilahn, except that his powers are bent on destruction
and domination. |
| Suddenly Sephie
finds herself at the center of a power struggle, and quickly she learns
that there is more than love in the world. Kidnapped to the world of Calador,
Sephie’s journey home to Meridian puts her in the path of many people good
and bad that help her grow up and counter Ilahn’s plans to take over her
world.
Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x 10.22 x 6.72
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Volume
Two:
Going
to Ground |
by Barbara Kesel, Steve McNiven, Tom Simmons,
& Morry Hollowell |
Paperback: 208 pages
CrossGen Comics
ISBN: 1931484090 |
$19.95
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| Meridian is
the story of Sephie, a sheltered young girl whose life resembles nothing
so much as a fairy tale. The beloved only child of the Minister of Meridian,
she grows up with an entire floating city as her playground. Then her father
dies, and she inherits a sigil imbued with the power to create. So does
her wicked Uncle Ilahn, except that his powers are bent on destruction
and domination. |
Suddenly Sephie
finds herself at the center of a power struggle, and quickly she learns
that there is more than love in the world. Kidnapped to the world of Calador,
Sephie’s journey home to Meridian puts her in the path of many people good
and bad that help her grow up and counter Ilahn’s plans to take over her
world. Meridian is a floating sky island of shipbuilders ravaged by the
occupying forces from Cadador, the island of merchants and contract holders.
The Minister of Meridian, Sephie, has survived a trial by fire. Returning
home, Sephie will use the strange healing powers she’s been given to banish
the Cadadorians from her island. Unfortunately, her Uncle Ilahn was also
given a sigil and its wonderful ability to manipulate energies – but his
power destroys.
Meridian is a coming-of-age
story that appeals to the audience of "Harry Potter" fans with its magical
battles and fantastic setting all narrated by Sephie. Featuring first Associate
Artist program graduate Steve McNiven’s latest work, this book spotlights
the work of an artist destined to be one of comics’ greatest.
Dimensions (in inches): 0.43 x 10.14 x 6.66
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Volume
Three:
Taking
the Skies |
| by Barbara Kesel, Steve McNiven, Tom Simmons,
& M. Hollowell |
Paperback: 160 pages
CrossGen Comics
ISBN: 193148421X |
$15.95
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SKIES, Sephie takes to piracy to disrupt the trade routes her Uncle Ilahn
controls, but discovers that his own power extends beyond energy into the
politics of contracts and influence. In a fight between two people given
godlike powers, who wins? Meridian offers a young adventure hero for girls
without leaving out the boys. All the alien wonder of a sci-fi fantasy
world and the familiar trials of being sixteen years old are brought to
life in a series that does for fantasy what "Harry Potter" does for magic. |
From Publishers
Weekly
Loyal readers and those
new to Kesel's monthly magazine-this volume collects issues 15 through
20-will enjoy this story set in a world where enormous islands float through
the sky. The visual style lies somewhere between anime and art deco, incorporating
both exuberant action and static decoration, and it works beautifully.
The characters are fascinating too, although they can seem generic at first.
Sephie, the young heroine, leads a band of youthful rebels against her
evil uncle Ilahn, who's murdered her father and usurped Sephie's role as
Minister of Meridian, one of the major sky-islands. Both Sephie and Ilahn
bear versions of the CrossGen Sigil, making them part of the power struggle/game
spin-off behind the CrossGen multi-universe saga. Sephie tries to deploy
her superhuman powers without hurting anyone and wants to defeat Ilahn
without fighting on his terms. This gives the action more moral weight
than usual in a mass market comic, and the complexity of the issues may
turn out to justify CrossGen's extended (some would say interminable) story
lines. There are real decisions to make here, and Sephie and her friends
are trying to win new allies and to outmaneuver Ilahn-who doesn't do much
more than basic comic book villainy, albeit with real gusto. Beautiful
art and strong scripting make Meridian a superior value.
Copyright 2002
Reed Business Information, Inc.
Dimensions (in inches): 0.30 x 10.18 x 6.64
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