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Lantern City
Lantern City #2
Sander has successfully infiltrated the Airborne division of the Guard, the best and most dangerous branch. Posing as a Captain, Sander will have to act like a leader of his unit, despite having no idea what Guard life is like beyond the public eye. His very life depends on it.
22 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2015
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About the author
Matthew Daley
26 books23 followersGrowing up, Matthew Daley walked to and from school. It wasn’t up hill both ways, though the mere fact that he did so is quite a seismic feat in the 21st Century. This is important because he walked passed a library, and on most days, he stopped there on his way home from school. He also believed that world peace could be achieved if everyone celebrated Doughnut Day every day.
Once he discovered that money doesn’t grow on trees – but rather, from them – he started to work. There was no other way to pay for his book/comic book/music buying addiction or his insistence of seeing every movie in the theaters at a minimum of three times. The jobs that he has held are (in no particular order of importance): referee, dish washer, soda salesman, envelope stuffer, waiter, microfiche filer, classical music morning DJ, small publisher rejection letter writer, sexual assault workshop facilitator, college essay ghostwriter, research consultant, high school English teacher, college professor, and writer.
When he isn’t writing fun things like Lantern City, Rise: An Illustrated Novel, and the upcoming The Not-So Secret Society, Matthew likes to study maps with his son, draw satellites with his older daughter, eat clementines with his younger daughter, and watch horror movies with his wife. His ability to arrange words in a decipherable way has earned him recognition from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the National Association of Black Journalists. One day, he might achieve the career goal he set for himself at age four: work as a milkman, fireman, and garbage man, splitting the day in three shifts. In the meantime, he will continue to write.
Once he discovered that money doesn’t grow on trees – but rather, from them – he started to work. There was no other way to pay for his book/comic book/music buying addiction or his insistence of seeing every movie in the theaters at a minimum of three times. The jobs that he has held are (in no particular order of importance): referee, dish washer, soda salesman, envelope stuffer, waiter, microfiche filer, classical music morning DJ, small publisher rejection letter writer, sexual assault workshop facilitator, college essay ghostwriter, research consultant, high school English teacher, college professor, and writer.
When he isn’t writing fun things like Lantern City, Rise: An Illustrated Novel, and the upcoming The Not-So Secret Society, Matthew likes to study maps with his son, draw satellites with his older daughter, eat clementines with his younger daughter, and watch horror movies with his wife. His ability to arrange words in a decipherable way has earned him recognition from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the National Association of Black Journalists. One day, he might achieve the career goal he set for himself at age four: work as a milkman, fireman, and garbage man, splitting the day in three shifts. In the meantime, he will continue to write.
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June 17, 2015
The action's getting a bit better now. Sander has to blend in with the other soldiers and avoid people becoming suspicious of him. It's okay. Some of the art is nice. I like the steampunk feel, and the world is kind of interesting. That said, I'm not intrigued enough by it to keep reading it in single issue. Maybe I'll pick up the trade paperback (probably not)... It's just not clicking with me.
February 7, 2022
The continue was smooth and i didn't notice i finished it in no time.
Sets our protagonist into the goal he has set for the greater good and it ends with a scene that can risk his disguise.
Now i'm curious for the next part!
Sets our protagonist into the goal he has set for the greater good and it ends with a scene that can risk his disguise.
Now i'm curious for the next part!
August 8, 2015
If a revolution has any chance of succeeding, than a person must choose between what he wants and what is needed. Sander, a worker class peon and unwitting revolutionary, faces this decision when he is forced to abandon his family in order to save his life and maintain the ruse that he is a Guard. Driven by forces larger than himself, Sander must now convince his superiors and the other Guards that he is one of their own. Not an easy task for someone with no Guard training or first-hand knowledge of the world that literally exists above his own. But Sander may have found an ally as he leaps from the proverbial frying pan into the fire by the end of the second issue.
A very well-paced and action packed issue, the story flows from one organic conflict to the next. The dialogue and inner monologue add additional dimensions to the story and I appreciate that his wife is finally given a name, which is Karla, by the way. I hope to see more of her story in later issues as the world of the Workers is an intriguing one and most of the people in it are hanging on by a thread. But now, we are introduced into the inner world of the Guards for the first time and I’m very interested in where that takes us.
Carlos Magno has once again done a terrific job on the art giving the world a very industrial look. The new colorist, Chris Blythe, has done fine work. I also love the San Diego Comic Con exclusive cover art by Jake Wyatt and I hope to pick up an issue while I am there.
Kuddos to everyone involved.
Originally published at Fanboy Comics.
A very well-paced and action packed issue, the story flows from one organic conflict to the next. The dialogue and inner monologue add additional dimensions to the story and I appreciate that his wife is finally given a name, which is Karla, by the way. I hope to see more of her story in later issues as the world of the Workers is an intriguing one and most of the people in it are hanging on by a thread. But now, we are introduced into the inner world of the Guards for the first time and I’m very interested in where that takes us.
Carlos Magno has once again done a terrific job on the art giving the world a very industrial look. The new colorist, Chris Blythe, has done fine work. I also love the San Diego Comic Con exclusive cover art by Jake Wyatt and I hope to pick up an issue while I am there.
Kuddos to everyone involved.
Originally published at Fanboy Comics.
February 18, 2016
Mejora bastante respecto al primero.
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