Seventh Shrine TPB [Paperback]

Anders Finer Robert Silverberg (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics; illustrated edition edition (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785126600
• ISBN-13: 978-0785126607
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,598,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good story, workable art, September 15, 2008

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wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seventh Shrine TPB (Paperback)

I've read some books from Silverberg's Majipoor cycle, and enjoyed them immensely (they're Silverberg, after all). So, I was positively disposed towards this novel with illustrations from the start.

Note that I say "novel with illustrations," not "graphic novel," in keeping with FDA rules about listing the majority ingredient first. This is a textual main course with a side order of imagery - not a bad thing, but set your expectations properly. Even though I last read a Majipoor book years ago, I vaguely remembered enough to orient me to Silverberg's multi-species planet. It's beginner-friendly, though. You can dive right in as a novice and still get just about all of the meaning and undertone.

Illustrations are painterly and craftsmanlike, but not memorable. Rendering meets respectable standards and doesn't descend to gimickry. Poses tend toward the static, though, and a generally dark mood makes them hard to read in suboptimal lighting - like reading in bed, for me. Still, they enhance the enjoyable text, giving the reader a sum that's more than the parts.

--wiredweird

5.0 out of 5 stars volume #1, November 1, 2011

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naelair - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seventh Shrine TPB (Paperback)

This is volume one, of two, and it is a paper back, and printed on very good quality paper. It is called a comic, but the paper is too thick and good for that. The illustrations are very good and compliment the story very well. Robert Silverberg is at his best, here. This short novel can stand on it's own, as it has a summation of Silverberg's, "Valentine Pontefex", (vol.#3 in the Majipoor trilogy). Chronologically, it comes after the trilogy. The story is a murder mystery. A Metamorph archeologist has been murdered in ruins of the prehistoric Metamorph capitol in the Velalisier Plain. The ruined capitol is thought to be haunted and cursed. Valentine, now Pontifex, leaves the Labyrinth, to investigate. This is his third visit to this site. In this volume, he questions suspects and gathers evidence. The solution is in the second volume.