Comments on: Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper

By: Daisy Kutter: The Last Train » Comics Worth Reading

Daisy Kutter: The Last Train » Comics Worth Reading — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:48:20 +0000

[...] showing how Daisy’s look developed and early page layouts. Online previews are available. Amulet is Kibuishi’s new series. Similar Posts: Train Man (The Movie) § Train Man/Densha [...]

By: nikolaus Brunett

nikolaus Brunett — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:05:12 +0000

I read the first one three times all ready and I am waiting for amulet book two to come out so I can read that one three times.

By: calvin

calvin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:53:56 +0000

it was a goodand interesting book and i cant wait for book 2

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:58:21 +0000

Book two hasn’t come out yet. I suspect it will be at least a year before we see it.

By: Elise Otwell

Elise Otwell — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:10:06 +0000

is there a 2nd book or has it not came out yet????

By: Reading Over Shoulders

Reading Over Shoulders — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:33:58 +0000

[...] Ed Sizemore at Comics Worth Reading reviews one of my favorite books The Amulet Book 1. [...]

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Nov. 24, 2008: Happy Ending

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:45:40 +0000

[...] [Review] Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper Link: Ed Sizemore [...]

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:24:53 +0000

I suspect you’re right, that those things will be followed up on in future. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of single-creator graphic novels that they can’t come out more quickly than once a year at best. Makes me jealous of the late-coming reader, who has several volumes available all at once.

By: Trochee

Trochee — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:09:39 +0000

I think all the things that you point to as “flaws” I interpreted as foreshadowing and/or character-development. I agree that a tween reader would find the first twelve to fifteen pages jarring and scary, but not much more than — say — the burning of the forest in the first volume of Elfquest, which is actually the book that turned me on to comics (at about that age!).

The sinister and cutthroat nature of the Amulet also rang the One-Ring alarm bells for me, too — but rather than judging the writer, I find myself judging the Amulet’s character (hugely powerful and not trustworthy). I await volume 2 eagerly to see if my sense is correct.