Reddit reviews The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3

The Amory Wars! I'd recommend just skipping Second Stage Turbine Blade and starting with In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. The SSTB story is kind of all over the place and Claudio was writing it alone, and that comic series suffers from that. IKS is a great jump up in quality, and a fine starting point for the rest of the series. It's a great companion piece to the album too. Follow that up with Good Apollo, which is even better - they just finished publishing that series a few months ago, and it's absolutely bonkers in the best possible way.

First: https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Second-Stage-Turbine/dp/1684151120/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511326258&sr=8-1&keywords=second+stage+turbine+blade+comic

Second: https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Keeping-Secrets-Silent/dp/1684151570/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511326283&sr=1-4&keywords=amory+wars

Third (Part 1 of three out so far): https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Good-Apollo-Burning/dp/168415068X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511326283&sr=1-1&keywords=amory+wars

The ultimate editions are the same as the standard but harder to come by and more expensive. OP probably just wants the standard hardcovers.

For all of the Amory Wars, the order goes

-The Afterman: Ascension and Descension coffee table book, comes with the Afterman Amory Award edition box set but is pretty expensive if you happen to find one on eBay. I think I paid $125 for the entire box set.

-The Year of the Black Rainbow novel by Sanchez and Peter David. Included in the YOTBR box set and is also quite expensive, but you can buy an eBook of it for like $10.

-The Second Stage Turbine Blade collection. You can find it here for about $30.

-In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 collection. Also here for about $30.

-Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness comics. No deluxe collection exists yet but they just finished the chapter with issue #12.

-Pre Production has started for the comics for Good Apollo Vol 2: No World For Tomorrow but no comics have been released of course

-Vaxis Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures novella released with the box set.


Of course if you just want to read the comics, start with SSTB and go from there.

Second Stage in full: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151120/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_EQ.Czb9VKTK3N

In Keeping Secrets in full: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151570/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_1R.Czb80GS3QT

Good Apollo is still being published now. I'm personally waiting for the Ultimate Edition to come out to get into this one.

SSTB has 10 issues that were put into the ultimate edition you have linked there

IKS has 12 issues that were also put into an ultimate edition, here, it looks like they might be having a reprint?

GA 1 has 12 issues (that I don't think have quite all release yet, but I might be wrong). Will likely be getting an ultimate edition too, as there is a collected version for the first 6 issues. Shitty thing for these was that I ordered the first six, and went to order 7-12 when they were available, but Merchnow decided it wasn't shipping to Canada anymore for some reason. Gotta hope for that ultimate edition

YOTBR has an actual novel. Not large amount of them printed though, but it's available as an e-book, which is how I read it. It's not bad

Everything else is from his previous attempt to make the comics come to life. The original two issues for SSTB are actually in the bonus pages of the ultimate edition, so that's cool. The original GA graphic novel is super confusing, hence them redoing it

The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151570/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_6EtJBbV80VAYW

It's available pre-order at Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1684151570/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1497567669&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=in+keeping+secrets

there is hardcover and then there is ultimate edition. UE is cool with all the extras. Amazon has most of them. however i had to hit ebay for one of the UE. but verify in photos! one was sent to me and it was listed as hardcover but wasn’t. so check with the seller


The Amory Wars: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Ultimate Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684155142/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_n68LDbBMM1T2B


The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684151570/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Z68LDb4SX94C7
(hardcover, not UE)


https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F274002995720
(says UE on listing but the cover doesn’t show that, so verify with seller)

Currently in stock at amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Amory-Wars-Keeping-Secrets-Silent/dp/1684151570

Check these out too: SSTB, IKSSE:3.

YOTBR ebook on amazon too but as an ebook.