Echo Volume 1: Moon Lake [Paperback]

Terry Moore (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Series: Echo | Publication Date: September 9, 2008

Julie Martin is in the wrong place at the wrong time when she finds herself under a strange explosion in the desert sky. The resulting fallout covers her in a mysterious silver metal that brings her more trouble than she can ever imagine, and a friend to die for. This first trade paperback collects issue 1-5 of Terry Moore's new hit series. Bonus pages include development sketches and design notes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Abstract Studio (September 9, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892597403
• ISBN-13: 978-1892597403
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #680,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Echo: Moon Lake. Terry Moore tells a thrilling and witty story., October 18, 2009

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Grant Watson (NC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Echo Volume 1: Moon Lake (Paperback)

ECHO: MOON LAKE,
Terry Moores "Echo" series is one of the most enjoyable comic books that I've read in a long time. As someone that's collected comics for over 30 years now, I've seen a lot of creative highs and lows. It's not very often that a comic can grab you right from the first page and have you on the edge of your seat, anxiously awaiting each issue. Echo is one of those comics.

Terry Moore is famous of course for his epic series "Strangers In Paradise". Like that title, Echo is full of enjoyable characters who look and talk like real people. Echo has interesting characters that you care about from the very beginning. Echo is a fascinating and far more complex twist on Captain Atom. The story introduces us to Annie Trotter, testing a new flight suit when she is seemingly destroyed in an explosion caused by the very people for whom she is testing the new organic metal suit.

Far below the explosion is nature photographer Julie Martin. While photographing desert flora, small pellets of metal fall from the sky, some of it sticking to her skin. Soon the little metal pellets gather together to form a breastplate that seems to be permanently attached to her skin and which reacts either pleasantly or violently depending on Julies brainwaves. The mysterious organization that Annie created the suit for...HeNRI is intent on getting back the remains as well as covering up just exactly what happened to Annie. They hire a special investigator named Ivy Raven to track down Julie Martin and return whatever remains of the strange metal.

But a mysterious drifter has also been similarly affected by the mysterious metal just as Julie has, and he has no qualms about using its power to kill. Before long Julie is helped by Annie's boyfriend, park ranger Dillon Murphy as they try to stay one step ahead of HeNRI, Ivy Raven and the homicidal drifter as well as trying to find out what the strange metal is and just what happened to Annie.

Terry Moore does a great job of fleshing out the characters as well as doing some wonderful artwork. His characters have a great realism and a genuine emotion to them as anyone that's read Strangers In Paradise can attest. The story had me engrossed and entertained right from the beginning.

Echo: Moon Lake gathers Echo issues 1 through 5. My one problem with this trade is that they didn't reprint the covers, which I thought were just lovely. The trade is pretty bare bones. There are a couple of sketches of Moore art in the back but that's pretty much it. But this is a fun, fast paced black and white gem of a story that I have really enjoyed reading and I would highly suggest it to anyone.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Story Great Pencil Artwork, September 26, 2008

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John Joyce "i was in the grassy knoll" (near dallas tx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Echo Volume 1: Moon Lake (Paperback)

this is a solid story, i don't have the trade paperback but i do have all five original issues, i am very interested to see where the store and characters go, especially with the main young woman going through a divorce, being broke and not sure where her life is going until that day in the desert when something comes out of the sky and attaches itself to her, but i won't give any more away from that. the artwork is fantastic, here's hoping we get some big action in future volumes.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good read for Terry Moore fans and new comers., September 8, 2008

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HeatherLR (Central New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Echo Volume 1: Moon Lake (Paperback)

Terry Moore, the author of one the best romantic comedies, "Strangers in Paradise," is printing a comic book of a different genre. A drama infused with nuclear weapons, "Echo" is closer to the super-hero genre than the previous title.

In this graphic novel, Julie, a woman with financial trouble from a break-up with her husband, was taking photographs by the lake. A woman named Annie, works with HeNRI to test out a new weapon. "This Weapon," when touch by something gentle as a feather does no harm, but when hit by a strong force can be dangerous.
Just as Julie was by the lake with her camera, Annie was involved in a weapon test gone wrong...
Witnessing an explosion, Julie was exposed to a substance that formed into a breast plate on her chest and shoulders. Eventually she finds it to be violent when touched aggressively. She doesn't know how or why.
Julie is unsure what is happening to her but apparently she's dangerous. Someone is after her as well, but someone close to Annie is willing to help.

The story and characters are still new to me, but develop well so far. The artwork is excellent. In black and white, Terry Moore puts a lot of detail and love into his work. The women in this story are fairly normal and respectable (and very pretty).

ECHO is off at a good start.
I'm currently collecting the comic issues, and I haven't seen the paperback edition yet. According to Terry Moore's web page, this has issues #1-5.
Although I prefer the comedy Strangers in Paradise, ECHO is a good read, and was worth looking into.