Multiversity Comics Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2

So as I’ve stated, the story as told by Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill is easy to access and intriguing. What I haven’t yet covered is the art. Alessandro Vitti provides some nice looking work that really flies in the face of my preconceived notion of Top Cow’s art. I know this is something we discussed on the site and with Top Cow in interviews but as they say the proof is in the pudding and this is some tasty pudding. Not to say that the art on Witchblade is bad art by any means but it wouldn’t work as well here and it’s nice to see the diversity that I’ve heard about over the course of the last year or so for my very own eyes.

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Comic Attack Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2

Rob and Bryan are developing Finn and Glori quite well, and though they are not well known characters and don’t have the status of say Darkness or Witchblade, there is no doubt in my mind that after all of this is said and done they will have moved up a few notches. I’d suggest checking this out not only to get yourself acquainted with the characters before Artifacts starts this summer, but just because the story itself is worth it alone.

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The Comic Addiction Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2

Alesandro Vitti (with Secret Warriors claim-to-fame) returns to provide some stunning artwork. His pencils and inks really bring the characters of Glori and Finn to life, and Sunny Gho’s colors felt perfect for the story. The issue is extremely fast-paced but it’s easy to follow and flows very naturally. Reading the book is like sitting down and watching a Tomb Raider movie.
In the coming issues, I really look forward to the character development of both Glori and Finn. These characters are both very young and new to the Top Cow universe and provide a refreshing break from the Trinity (Darkness, Angelus and Witchblade). I really look forward to the inevitable showdown between Glorianna and Michael.

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Broken Frontier Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2

This issue features a lot of grand action and was overall a visual treat. Artist Alessandro Vitti really stepped it up. His depiction of Finn and Silver’s powers is much more dynamic than it was in the first issue. The radiating energy and scorching fires seem much realer and really pop off the page. His figures and layouts are also very dramatic and interesting, even during dialogues. I especially appreciated his treatment of the early sequence where Silver and Finn speak. As the scene takes place in Japan, the blowing grass and dueling atmosphere of the field they’re in is a great touch. Both the backgrounds and the people throughout this issue had a very organic quality which helped make the story more engaging.

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Comic Box Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2

[FRENCH] A la recherche de la boite de Pandore, les deux porteurs de talismans les plus récents de l’univers Top Cow sont obligés de se confronter l’un à l’autre, chassant que leurs natures sont forcément antagonistes. C’est l’occasion de creuser plus en profondeur ces personnalités relativement vierges…

If you know french or just want to pretend you do, read the full reveiw here.

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Graphic Policy Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2

The series sees two individuals searching for a man named Elias who wants Padora’s Box to bring about Armageddon. The two are enemies, forced to deal with each other to face a bigger enemy. It’s pretty straight forward. The story by Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill is entertaining and has a world globe trotting feel to it. The action scenes are decent enough and banter fun. The art by Alessandro Vitti is a pleasure to look at.

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Project Fanboy Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2

Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box is a big summer action movie in comic book form. It's got explosions and gunfire, conspiracy, cults and a great cast of characters. The writers do a great job with pacing; the comic reads quickly and with a lot of energy. I also thought the writers did a great job with the dialogue. When the characters talk they not only reveal personality traits and their strengths and weaknesses but the dialogue also conveys a tone and a worldview. The writers speak through there characters giving the comic a tone that is serious but not mired in darkness.

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Playback:STL Previews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #2. Out This Week!

A Cold War Heats Up!
Finn and Glori, the bearers of the Glacier and Ember Stones, have discovered that a mysterious cult is after Pandora’s Box, one of the 13 Artifacts. Will they be able to not kill each other long enough to prevent the Disciples of Eden from destroying the world? Or will they revert to their destined roles?

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What The Con: C2E2 Signing Times & Panels

Heading to C2E2 this weekend, herders? Be sure to stop by the Top Cow booth #551. Grab some free swag. Get your hands on Magdalena #1 before anyone else does. Say hey to your favorite creators. Give @TopCow (Filip) a high five. And offer @chrissypedia (Christine) a jello snack pack!

But of course, the real reason you stopped on by:

Friday
1:30 - 2:30pm: Eric Basaldua
2:30 - 3:30pm: Bryan Edward Hill & Alessandro Vitti
3:30 - 4:30pm: Phil Hester & Ryan Winn
4:30 - 5:30pm: Ron Marz & Nelson Blake II
5:30 - 6:30pm: Joshua Hale Fialkov


Saturday
10:30 - 11:30am: Joshua Hale Fialkov & Jeremy Haun
11:30 - 1:00pm: Ron Marz, Nelson Blake II & Troy Peteri
1:00 - 2:30pm: Phil Hester (1:30p) & Ryan Winn
2:30 - 4:00pm: Bryan Edward Hill & Alessandro Vitti
4:30 - 6:00pm: Eric Basaldua


Sunday
10:30 - 11:30am: Joshua Hale Fialkov & Jeremy Haun
11:30 - 12:30pm: Ron Marz & Nelson Blake II
12:30 - 1:30pm: Bryan Edward Hill & Alessandro Vitti
1:30 - 2:30pm: Phil Hester & Ryan Winn


AND DON'T FORGET TO STOP BY OUR PANEL!

Saturday, April 17: 7:15p - 8:15p in E450:
Join Sablik as the publisher launches Magdalena #1 with Marz and Blake II. Special guest, Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs will also stop by to discuss his love of Top Cow’s comics including his favorite character, The Darkness. Additional guests of the panel include Hester, Basaldua, Hill and more as they share with fans what’s coming from Top Cow in 2010, including exclusive early looks, exciting announcements, and special gifts for every panel attendee.

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Battlemouth Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1

Following in the footprints of countless publishers before them, Artifacts promises to be Top Cow’s most ambitious undertaking to date and will weave together story lines from a number of Top Cow titles, including Witchblade, The Darkness, Angelus and Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box. It has been known that thirteen mystical Artifacts guide the fate of the Top Cow Universe. For years, it’s been said that the meeting of all 13 artifacts would bring upon mankind’s destruction. The series will begin with a mysterious figure who seeks to put Armageddon into motion.

The Artifacts journey begins now, with Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #1. In Top Cow’s most recent book, Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill, seek to set our journey underway.

In this first issue, we are introduced to Glorianna Silver, wielder of the ember stone, one of the 13 artifacts. As well as Michael Finnegan, small time criminal and new wielder of the Glacier stone, another of the 13 artifacts. The two are prophesied to fight each other, but in the process threaten to upset the delicate balance of the Trinity. The Trinity, of course, is The Angelus, The Darkness, and The Witchblade.

Read the full review here.

Source: Battlemouth

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Escape from Tomorrow Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1

Over the past 18 months or so I've been drawn, by quality stories, writing and artwork, into picking-up pretty much every book in the Top Cow universe - that said, aside from reading an odd issue here and there in the past I'm not really familiar with Broken Trinity. Twenty-five or so pages later - I'm hooked!

If I wasn't already drawn-in by the advance publicity for the mini-series, and credit to Top Cow by the way for getting material - preview pages, interviews, teasers - out to the fans ahead of publication, then Tommy Lee Edwards magnificent cover pulled me in immediately with it's mix of adventure, danger and the mysterious.

I really enjoy tales that exist in that space between outlandish fantasy and historical fact - and for me this first issue occupies very much occupies that space ...

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Source: Escape From Tomorrow

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Best Shots Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box

Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #1
Written by Rob Levin & Bryan Edward Hill
Art by Allessandro Vitti
Colors by Sunny Gho
Published by Top Cow Productions & Image Comics
Review by Kevin Huxford

My only previous experience with Broken Trinity directly involved the Darkness and Witchblade. So I was a bit surprised after picking this up to find them completely absent. Not necessarily a bad thing, just not what I had expected. It clearly puts me into the new reader camp when it comes to the properties being used here.

Through the use of the opening re-cap page and an efficient use of exposition, the writers do a really good job of bringing the uninitiated up to speed. There are two opposing forces that have been around for millennia have recently found new people to carry their artifacts and powers. For some reason, they are compelled to find the rest of the thirteen related artifacts scattered across the globe and tear each others’ heads off.

They do such a good job of laying things out that I honestly thought this might have been the first appearance of the characters. It wasn’t until preparing to write this review where I decided to verify what characters pre-dated this issue that I found out most of the players have been around for at least a year. Other than a few minor quibbles, this had as much info as might be required to start a movie with a similar subject matter.

While they did a really good job of introducing us to Michael Finnegan and the Disciples of Adam, better establishing the Glorianna Silver character would have really made the book virtually flawless in its new-reader-friendliness. While it is obvious they tried and I’m sure all her interactions with her mentor ring true to the character, I suspect they seem to be much more effective than they actually are when viewed through the eyes of someone already familiar with the property. When she tells Wulgar that she won’t be felled like the dragon, there aren’t enough contextual or visual clues to tell us whether she’s saying that defiantly or more sheepishly. It makes it hard to get a proper read on the character or really care about her, if you’re coming relatively fresh to this first issue. For those already a bit familiar with the character, I’d imagine it all works smoothly and avoids going so far in trying to coach new readers as to turn off established ones.

The story is setting up two mystically-powered, diametrically opposed beings in a conflict where they share a common enemy. The “two enemies somewhat united by a shared enemy”angle isn’t new. Neither is a global scavenger hunt, which seems to be where this is leading. But it is the execution here that makes the difference. That includes the art. Vitti’s art (with Gho’s coloring) reminds me, in places, of Leinil Yu’s work on Ultimate Wolverine Vs. Hulk. At the same time, you can see some work that is more like traditional Top Cow art styles. Both are pleasing to the eye in the book and, while somewhat different, really don’t clash along the way.

The highest praise I can give a book that isn’t part of or related to my regular purchases is that I will seek out the next issue. Guess what #2 I’ll be looking for in a month or so?

Source: Newsarama

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ComicBook.com Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box

Top Cow is releasing an ambitious project over the next few months, one that will certainly be a staple of their summer lineup, and it all started with the recently released Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #1, a project that continues the Broken Trinity work from before with the promise of globetrotting adventure and the feel of an Indiana Jones story, as a search for precious artifacts, beginning with the eponymous Pandora’s Box, begins here. For fans and readers of the Broken Trinity series, this first issue will quickly pick up and reintroduce you to the world of the bearers of the Ember Stone and the Glacier Stone. New readers may find the suddenness of the issue a bit unclear, but overall the story has potential to make an impact, even though a sense of immediacy and characters doesn’t always feel developed.

Bryan Edward Hill and Rob Levin handle the writing duties here, and while they do a nice job of trying to initiate the new reader into the existing universe by offering a brief glance back at the history of Glori Silver, the bearer of the mystic Ember Stone and Michael Finn, the wielder of the Glacier Stone, there’s a definite sense of history present in the first few pages that might ring hollow for new readers; although, those familiar with the series will appreciate the quick transition into the action of the piece, where the issue does find its best glimpses of what we might be able to expect. Their eternal struggle is depicted richly by Alessandro Vitti’s drawings and Sunny Gho’s colors, which both give the feeling of a rich tapestry.

Read the full review here.

Source: ComicBook.com

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Comic Attack Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1

Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box has potential and will set the pace for the big event later on and right now Hill and Levin are on point with a good story! I’m curious to see how this plays out as I’m not sure that Glori knows that Finn is in possession of two Artifacts as she’s been focusing on getting that Glacier Stone from him. Other than that we’ve got religious zealots, ninja, mystical creatures and a high body count so what else could you ask for?

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Source: Comic Attack

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Panels on Pages Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1

Panels on Pages' Jason Kerouac takes the time to review the out now Broken Trinity: Pandoras Box #1:

But to be honest, I didn’t read the books in question, so when it came time for this week’s installment of 52 Pick-Up, Pandora’s Box #1 seemed a perfect choice.

I’m still far from an expert as to what’s going on in this world through which Levin, Hill, and Vitti are leading us. What I do know is that there are 13 artifacts - items of great power - throughout the Top Cow Universe. The Witchblade is one of them. Well, now we’ve been introduced to the Glacier and Ember stones, currently in the possession of the aforementioned Finn and Glori respectively. It’s kind of like Tron, by the way. Blue is good, red is bad. Remember that as the frost giant and the dragon are sure to mix it up later in this series, picking up where they left off in the first chapter of Broken Trinity. For now, however each has their own path to walk.

The characters’ have immediately distinct and believable voices, with Finn’s in-over-his-head Irish boy proving immediately relatable and enjoyable. Glori, on the other hand, is a bit overshadowed by Mr.-Stick-up-his-ass Wulfgar, the disappointed father figure who scolds her for her missteps and mistakes. Then again, I’m sure she’ll get plenty of chance to establish her own character in the issues to come, especially after the way things ended in this issue. Mind you, I’m not going to elaborate too much on that, you’ll have to just read for yourself.

To that end, Pandora’s Box #1 makes a fine jumping on point if you’re curious about the TCU, but if you really want to dig in, I’d suggest backing up and checking out the first chapter of the Broken Trinity saga. Either way, you shouldn’t have too hard of a time getting your footing, as the story exposits pretty much anything and everything you’ll need to know along the way.

Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #1 gets a solid 4 out of 5 dudes named Wulfgar, because really, holy shit, they guy’s name is Wulfgar.

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Source: Panels on Pages

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Cosmic Book News Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1

Yin and yang, heaven and hell, good and evil, dualities have defined mankind since our origins. In Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box, we see this classic tale played out through an enticingly original mythos. Glorianna Silver, known as Glori, holds the powerful Ember artifact. Michael Finnegan, known as Fin, holds the equally powerful Glacier artifact. They are set on a course to destroy one another, a fate that each seem the least in control of.

Added to this is the Cult of Adam, a well financed and well trained religious sect which resembles more an army of Elite Ops rather than religious fanatics. They are after Pandora’s Box, one of thirteen magical items, along with the Ember and Glacier stones, whose power can reshape the world. Plus we see Glori and Fin's mentors, are given background on the world they inhabit, and ultimately their part in it.

Written by Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill, this a tightly written story. The scenes flow nicely together which creates a smooth and enjoyable read. The art work is done by Allessandro Vitti who makes very interesting choices. The action is bold and pronounced, with panels overlaying one another to convey force and movement.

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Source: Cosmic Book News

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Multiversity Comics Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1

Top Cow is launching a new series written by Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill and illustrated by Allesandro Vitti. That title is Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box, and it is part of a grand scheme by Top Cow to make their universe a more cohesive whole (ala any major event comic anyone else does).

So what kind of grade do you give a book that is 70% good, 30% not so good from a writing standpoint and all good from art? I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for the first issue, as it did a good job of setting up an intriguing globe spanning adventure in the next five issues. A solid...

Final Verdict: 7.2 - Buy

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Source: Multiversity Comics

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GeekWeek Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1. Get it today!

Iann Robinson reports:

I have to give credit where credit is due and Top Cow is due some serious credit for this new six issue series from Broken Trinity titled Pandora’s Box. Top Cow has always had a fantasy element in what they do from Darkness to the new Angelus title and so forth but this series takes what they do to a new and interesting place.

This is a well thought out, plot driven fantasy tale that has just the right amount of violence, action and the supernatural. It’s also mystical fantasy storytelling that allows the modern world into it, keeping it not only more accessible but also with a greater edge.

Fantasy isn’t easy to pull off and epic fantasy like Pandora’s Box is even trickier. Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill are doing a great job of not rushing the story, even with a limited six issue run, They’re establishing the ground work so that the pay off will be mighty. I’m really interested to see how Pandora’s Box fits into the rest of the Broken Trinity series and how that ultimately ties in with everything else going on at Top Cow. While DC & Marvel seem to be grabbing all the headlines with Siege and Blackest Night, they should keep their eye on Top Cow. With more books like Pandora’s Box, Top Cow could become quite a threat to the big two.

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Source: GeekWeek

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Graze Anatomy: Alina

Meet Alina tomorrow (Wednesday) in Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box. She's a cool new, butt-kicking character created by Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill. She follows a guy by the name of Elias Legion, who is on a bloodthirsty quest for Pandora's Box.

Don't get on her bad side.

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Omnicomic Reviews Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1

The fine folk over at Omnicomic reviews this week's Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1. Get it now!

Top Cow is pretty keen on their heroes bearing ancient artifacts that grant them some immeasurable powers. Sara Pezzini is the current bearer in the long line of the Witchblade, and Jackie Estacado is the current bearer of The Darkness. Top Cow has tapped Rob Levin and Bryan Hill to add two more bearers to the Top Cow stable in Finn and Glori in Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #1.

After reading this first issue, you get a little carsick because in the first ten pages or so the comic hits about five countries...sort of a whirling dervish of a comic if you will. Levin and Hill are very adept at crafting a comic that doesn't waste words and I'm a HUGE fan of Alessandro Vitti's artwork which does an exceptional job in bring their words to life. I've never really gotten into Witchblade (nothing against the comic as I've heard fantastic things...plus I'll leave that to Tom) but I'm kind of digging Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box. There's a good bit of action and story with some religion thrown in for good measure.

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Source: Omnicomic

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