WAKE vols. 6/7:
Artifice/Maximum (In)security
Two stories in one book in a new handy format! In “Artifice”, feisty human agent Navee falls on a planet persecuted by a ruling class with little regard for life. She faces her coldest rival ever. In “Maximum (In)security”, she is given the task of dismantling a ring trafficking in planets but to do so she must retrieve Rib’Wund, a mercenary she worked with already out of a maximum security prison filled with ultra violent inmates! We also get to find out how she got those white bands across her body!
"The full-color art is nicely conceived and executed with dollops of humor. No need to start at the beginning of this saga to appreciate it."
-Booklist
"WAKE is an amazing blend of traditional European detail with the hyper kinetic action of a manga series. The mesh works well, and is lavishly illustrated with an eye towards a cinematic feel. This series is well deserving of all the praise heaped on it, and comes highly recommended to fans of sci-fi and strong characterization."
-Buzzscope.com
"***1/2. Continues to deliver compelling SF tales."
-Comics Buyers Guide
"Buchet's art is cinematic, beautifully colored and includes some of the most jaw-droppingly cool comic strip vistas I've ever seen in decades of reading science fiction comics. What really sets Wake apart from a lot of what's out there is that it's simply fun to read. Unlike so many of the derivative, formulaic American comics currently on the market, the Wake series is not unremittingly bleak and cynical. In fact, the stories have a refreshingly lighthearted quality. I give Wake my hearty endorsement." -Steve Riggenburg, Heavy Metal
71/2 x 10, 96pp., full color trade pb, $14.95, ISBN 1-56163-420-4

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WAKE #4/5 The Sign of the Demons
Jean-David MORVAN & Philippe BUCHET
Inaugurating a new format: 2 stories in one thick book! In a remarkably poignant and topical story, Navee is pressed into service against a group of terrorists bombing at random throughout Wake! The group is an oppressed neglected people whose anger is beyond cooling but the victims they make are innocent... In the second story, agents from Wake on mission on Hurumaru, a planet in medieval stage, are giving no sign of life. Navee, Bobo and three other special agents are sent to find them. They arrive in the middle of a war of liberation of the Escots. Lead by Princess Moneva, the rebels are summarily executing all who carry the logo of Wake: the sign of the demons!
"The art is gorgeous, filled with incredible detail. Wake is sci-fi action-adventure done right, with beautiful art and entertaining, complex stories. Check it out." -Slushfactory.com
"Grade: A. Gives readers their money's worth by packing in the plot and saturating their worlds with color and detail. Succeeds in making a strong impression." Oliver Chin, Comics Buyers Guide
"Buchet's art is so colorful, clean, and visually arresting that it is easy to overlook the complexity of the world created by writer Morvan." -VOYA
"Morvan's conceptual and thematic sophistication is astonishing, the equal of, say, Alistair Reynolds's, and his talents are felicitously matched by Buchet's intricate, dense and amazingly harmonious and astonishing drawings. This series is a winner, and at two tales for the price of one, a bargain as well." -Asimov's
"The artwork is exceptionally good. The story line quite complex and intelligent."
SF Chronicle
9x12, 96pp., full color trade pb., $14.95, ISBN 1-56163-341-0

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WAKE, Vol. 3: “Gearing Up”
Morvan & Buchet
Navee is assigned a mission by Wake to investigate the steam-punk world of planet TRI-JJ 68. It’s a glacial planet that had been inhabited by a nature-communing, peaceful lot that Wake simply passed over as unworthy. But in a recent pass, they discover that suddenly a whole civilization has sprouted and reached up to its industrial age, and this in record time! Wake is now intrigued and so is Navee, as these new inhabitants closely resemble the race of which, up until now, she had been the only representative: humans! Has she found her own people?
"Like SF? Like good art? Like a complete story for your money? Here it is!"
-Maggie Thompson, Comics Buyers Guide
9x12, 56pp. full color trade pb., $9.95, ISBN 1-56163-315-1

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WAKE, Vol.2: "Private Collection"
Jean-David Morvan & Philippe Buchet
Taken aboard Wake, Navee proves irresistible to its powers. Her resistance to being mind-read, her feistiness and indomitable character make her a popular new guest at increasingly higher echelons. In this volume, she undergoes training for special missions and does so with flying colors. But when she turns down the advances of a prominent official smitten with her, dangerous backstabbing politicking puts her in grave danger…
9x12, 48pp., full color trade pb.: $8.95, ISBN 1-56163-282-1
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