Wake: Vol. 6 - Artifice Vol. 7 - Maximum (In) Security [Paperback]

Jean David Morvan (Author), Philippe Buchet (Author)

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Grade 10 Up-Wake combines the primitive and philosophical ideologies of Dune with the adventure and morals of Star Wars. In this graphic novel, agent Navee finds herself stranded on a planet whose people have little regard for women or life, and who are currently engaged in a civil war with robots. While the story is not at all sexist, some teens might not understand the philosophy behind the treatment of women on the planet. The graphics are beautiful, with frames that use different shades of colors to set the mood and pace of the story.-Scott La Counte, Anaheim Public Library, CA
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Gr. 9-12. In this relatively well-developed graphic-novel space opera, Navee, a human girl in a universe of varied forms of intelligent life, copes splendidly in two adventures. In Artifice, she faces and revels in intergalactic battle and helps a couple of alternate species reevaluate their thinking about the roles female beings can play in society. Maximum (In)Security is much bloodier and more hectic as Navee does battle with muscular, shape-shifting entities that swarm in deadly spacecraft. The full-color art is nicely conceived and executed with dollops of humor, although many of the speech bubbles are oddly undersized and cramped. Readers need not start at the beginning of this saga to appreciate it, especially if they already have a taste for aliens, machines, and physical conflict aided by strange technology. Francisca Goldsmith
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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: NBM Publishing (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561634204
• ISBN-13: 978-1561634200
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #628,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Planet Traffickers, June 29, 2005

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This review is from: Wake: Vol. 6 - Artifice Vol. 7 - Maximum (In) Security (Paperback)

While the first three volumes of Wake were pretty-much stand-alone stories, this volume continues the plots revealed in 4 (The Sign of the Demons) about planet trafficking. Navee is off to see Ribwund who was sent to prison in an earlier adventure. She hopes to get information regarding the planet traffickers who have infiltrated Wake at all major levels.

In the first story, Navee's craft is sabotaged and she crashes on an unknown planet. There she is befriended by a local species that seems to be in perpetual war with machines. The war has split the society into the men who are soldiers and the women who are protected and do all of the rest of the work including providing sexual favors to successful soldiers. Strong-willed Navee, placed with the women, finally rebels at the end of the day instead of providing rewards. She then proceeds to use her unique talents to effect major changes on the world, its society, and the war.

With her ship repaired, Navee continues her mission in the second story. She infiltrates Ribwund's prison just as major riots break out. They may be a cover to assassinate the ex-general. Navee manages to get caught right in the middle of things. We have long-standing crime rivals, rioting, cover-ups and a surprise character that has encountered humans prior to meeting Navee. But no matter how tough the odds, Navee is not a quitter.

Both stories are really part of a whole. The series overall seems to be moving in a more coherent direction that in the first three books (although this volume has serious ties to volume two). A lot happens in this book and a lot of it will have repercussions on later stories. It really makes me wish that the next volume would come out right away. This volume does not stand alone very well and volumes two and four really should be read in order to understand what is really going on. Check it out.