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Kade: Identity
By Andy Doan
May 15, 2008 - 8:49:24 PM
Arcana Studios
Writer(s): Sean O'Reilly
Penciller(s): Allan Otero
Inker(s): Allan Otero
Colourist(s): Steve Cobb
Letterer(s): Sean O'Reilly
ISBN: 0-9763095-1-3
124 pages, US $9.95, CDN $13.95
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Kade
has many questions about his past. Who was behind the brutal murder of
his mother? As an infant how did he survive a night alone in the middle
of a snow storm? Why can't he feel physical pain? Found and raised by a
kind hearted monk,
Kade is left to ponder these questions until one day when one day answers come in the worst way possible. An evil demon named
Apollyon believes that
Kade
is the only thing that stands between him and control of the Earth. He
finds finds the young man's adopted home and kills everyone in the
small village including
Kade.
Kade awakens after receiving
a mortal injury and the story begins. Will he unlock the secrets of his
past and discover his destiny? The clock is running out and the fate of
the entire race of man is at stake.
The
storyline takes the shape of the typical prophesied saviour emerging in
humanity's darkest hour. Guess what! The savior was the guy everyone
thought it was despite his doubts. And .... He does save the world at
the last possible moment while all hope is lost. Phew! The attempt to
separate this story from the rest comes in the way that it's set in a
Gothic themed fantasy world. Most of the unique qualities of the world
are upstaged by the more standard features.
Orcs, Elves,
Dwarves
and Giants. We also have a racial sampler of a fellowship standing in
as the good guys and Magical monster trying to unleash the ultimate
evil on earth as the villain. It seemed there might have been an
expectation for the reader to understand things on a little higher
level then I did. To me it seemed like many details of the story where
kind of glazed over. I have no idea where most of the main supporting
cast came from. It just seemed like suddenly he was in a group and in
the middle of a quest. This might explain why when members of the party
began dying off four panels after being introduced I cared a great
degree less then the surviving members. I think it was the abrupt
pacing of the book as a whole that caused me to care very little about
any of the characters. The personality for the main bad guy wasn't even
outlined good enough for me to get behind him.
The art in this volume was a choice of style over substance. Reminding me more of one of Marvels
Ultamite books then a medieval fantasy. It failed to create the Gothic
theme that the writer was going for. Far too much colour and not enough
shading. Throw in a few X-Men or the Fantastic Four in the mix with
little New York in the background and I think I would have had a
totally different opinion.
After my first run through I was a little annoyed. Here
I'd
spent 45 minutes of my life reading someones ham-handed attempt at a
fantasy epic. It was only after thinking of my younger Brother-in-law
that I realized what I had missed. This book isn'tdesigned for 32 year
old men. It's designed and written for 12 year old boys. My opinion
completely changed. I'm imagining this being a huge hit with the kids
that are a little too tough for Harry Potter but maybe a little too ADD
for Lord of the Rings. Someone who spends a couple hours after school
each night playing World of
Warcraft on their parents desk top would feel right at home in this world.
The
bottom line is don't pick up this book if you're looking to fill the
gap between issues of Conan. If you're going on a trip to Grandma's
house two states over and you want to keep the "are we there yet?"s to
a minimum this might be theperfect fit!
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