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Saturday, March 01, 2008, 11:01 PM
<br><img src="http://www.projectfanboy.com/images/reviews/darklabyrinth.jpg" hspace="10" align="left">Title: Dark Labyrinth
Publisher: Dark Ocean Studios (http://www.darkoceanstudios.com)
Writer: Jody Parker
Art: Geoff Porter / Jennifer Strener
28 PGS.
Safety Content Label: Mild (Android Combat)
Publishers Blurb:
On an ancient, isolated planet, the first flickers of war began, a war that would come to last thousands of years. It was so brutal that the generations born into it knew little of compassion. Kidnapping, murder, and torture were everyday occurrences. Children were sold into slavery, and the earth became a graveyard for those that had fallen. It was a perilous, ravaged world. As the centuries passed, the reasons behind the war were forgotten. Yet the disharmony did not cease. There seemed to be no end, no salvation.
Then, an unheard of event occurred. Both warring sides were divided onto each hemisphere of the planet and it was torn into two separate halves. They stood facing one another and aligning their rotation as if still whole. They were named Lotherial and Oren.
The facts behind this event are shrouded in history. It is told this division was created to bring about peace. Each side could not reach one another, so could no longer fight. Some say the gods, angry with the discordant world, split it in two. Others claim each side agreed to share their world and divided it using forgotten technology. It is uncertain if anyone now living knows the truth.
Time passed and a new era began. Gods were lost to memory and the tools of science expanded. The first ship was built to travel across the uncertain gap of space and reach its neighboring hemisphere, then slowly another came, and another. Knowledge was shared between the two and each was fascinated by the others customs and culture. There was a tentative peace, but it was to be short lived. A new war began. This prompted the creation of Ions, large robots which can reach across the space between the two hemispheres with ease. So our story begins today… on the hemisphere of Oren.
Reviewer Comments:
This issue tells the history and background surrounding the life of a young Dark Labyrinth Ion warrior, Kel Sonnersgal. This issue pleasantly surprised me with the great storytelling and professional art and inking you'd come to expect from a veteran publisher.
Publisher: Dark Ocean Studios (http://www.darkoceanstudios.com)
Writer: Jody Parker
Art: Geoff Porter / Jennifer Strener
28 PGS.
Safety Content Label: Mild (Android Combat)
Publishers Blurb:
On an ancient, isolated planet, the first flickers of war began, a war that would come to last thousands of years. It was so brutal that the generations born into it knew little of compassion. Kidnapping, murder, and torture were everyday occurrences. Children were sold into slavery, and the earth became a graveyard for those that had fallen. It was a perilous, ravaged world. As the centuries passed, the reasons behind the war were forgotten. Yet the disharmony did not cease. There seemed to be no end, no salvation.
Then, an unheard of event occurred. Both warring sides were divided onto each hemisphere of the planet and it was torn into two separate halves. They stood facing one another and aligning their rotation as if still whole. They were named Lotherial and Oren.
The facts behind this event are shrouded in history. It is told this division was created to bring about peace. Each side could not reach one another, so could no longer fight. Some say the gods, angry with the discordant world, split it in two. Others claim each side agreed to share their world and divided it using forgotten technology. It is uncertain if anyone now living knows the truth.
Time passed and a new era began. Gods were lost to memory and the tools of science expanded. The first ship was built to travel across the uncertain gap of space and reach its neighboring hemisphere, then slowly another came, and another. Knowledge was shared between the two and each was fascinated by the others customs and culture. There was a tentative peace, but it was to be short lived. A new war began. This prompted the creation of Ions, large robots which can reach across the space between the two hemispheres with ease. So our story begins today… on the hemisphere of Oren.
Reviewer Comments:
This issue tells the history and background surrounding the life of a young Dark Labyrinth Ion warrior, Kel Sonnersgal. This issue pleasantly surprised me with the great storytelling and professional art and inking you'd come to expect from a veteran publisher.