Tales of Honor Vol. 1

Good job reworking for the different media. I don't really like the fact that Nimitz appearance is so different from the way he was described in the books.

Okay, since I have read many of the Honor Harrington books, I am not the intended audience for this book, which is a re-imagining of the Honor Harrington story. I very much prefer the original. But is it bad? Nope, it isn't. Honestly, the comic novel manages to get across quite a bit of the original, in very few pages. The pictures are not cartoons, but have quite a bit of detail. Especially interesting are the panels which explain how propulsion and weapons work in Honorverse.In the Honor Harrington series, Weber always catalogs the devastation of warfare, but the visuals here are more dramatic than words alone. My main problem with Tales of Honor is the problem that fans often have with films—a disconnect between what I previously imagined and what I am seeing. This version of Honor is less beautiful, more menacing, and less subtly nuanced than the one in my imagination. And, the Nimitz in this book is unrecognizable. Really.However, as a fan of HH and Weber, I am looking at these panels as elaborate story boards— a step toward seeing Honor on the silver screen.For newbies, this approach will certainly introduce this most excellent character. Hopefully later volumes will flesh out the story and attract a wider audience to Honor Harrington's universe. Fans of comics and graphic novels should give this book a chance.

The writer, Matt Hawkins, has a solid record for writing strong female protagonist, but, Harrington might be the most relatable. It’s refreshing to see a strong female lead deal with confidence (or lack thereof) in her appearance and work. There’s a powerful moment when a superior officer tries to take advantage of Harrington but she uses her expert martial arts training to take control of the situation and shut him down. She is a believable woman with real doubts and flaws. But her actions and narration give the reader a strong and empowering character to bond with.Tales of Honor is a beautiful comic book that works for the medium. The imagination and world might overlap and push the kind of limits James Cameron did for Avatar. The art by Jun-Geun Yoon, San-II Jeong, and Linda Sejic add so much depth and wonder that you often forget that this is a military-sci-fi-thriller but more of a space opera fantasy. Each page is filled with extreme visual details, creative ships, and mindblowing action. TOH might only be suitable for comics because the film’s budget would be colossal! The high concept storyline would work for a movie but it would be a crime to scale down the visuals this comic produced.Satisfying read. The cliffhanger on the last page will make you go buy vol. 2 immediately. It will also make you want to adopt a cat and name it Nimitz.

As others have stated, the text is very, very small. I have to use extreme hobby glasses to read it. The artwork is different. I like these ships, the originals in the novels were visually boring. (Weber is a great author, not an artist). As to the uniforms, Female officers don't wear catsuits. This isn't Voyager where 7 of 9 has to raise the sex appeal for ratings. But these are small issues.I can't imagine what possessed them to set the novel in the context of a flashback during torture, but it does serious damage to the story. Harrington's first victory is wrapped in her most crushing defeat. This robs the story of its core theme, the amazing young officer who achieves victory even when put in an impossible situation. There is no sharing of the victory, no inspiration to follow her example; the text talks about her accomplishment at Basilisk, but that is overwhelmed by the visuals of the torture room.The only redeeming factor is that young people will move on to the novels.

I waa interested in seeing how well they could illustrate an excellent story. I thought they did an excellent job of bringing to life. I also enjoyed the flashback method employed to tell the story. Extremely pleased with the overall quality and cohesiveness of this version. If you enjoy the original novels and the author, and you like comics/graphic novels, this will be a welcome addition to your collection.

This graphic novel told the story of Basilisk Station in a very visual way. Although I was not happy with the way Nimitz was drawn. It was still good.

I too found this comic to be a poor "re-imagining" of the wonderful original novels. Nimitz is unrecognizable, even for a work in progress. Other details are as bad. The often described Royal Manticoran Navy's "space black and gold" uniform has somehow become a weird grey trenchcoat kind of thing that is decidedly unmilitary, ugly and just wrong. Much of the story is slightly adapted or simply lifted straight from the novels so I can't find much fault there. The graphics, on the other hand, are not for the established fan. One wonders if the comic artists ever actually read the books.For new readers who do not know the series I suspect it will do well. It is an exciting and interesting story, with lots of action and futuristic technology. As an established fan of the novels however, I am unlikely to buy future issues of the graphic series. It is just a poor substitute for the real thing.

It's an interesting take on the Honor Harrington universe but it's like the artist(s) involved hadn't bothered to actually read the books first. The uniforms are very different from what's described in Weber's works. Heck, all you have to do is look at the covers of the books to see what they look like. Even looking at the cover of this graphic novel, they didn't even get her hair right. The artwork is nice though. Too bad it's different from what's been presented previously.

This is the "graphic novel" version of the brilliant first story in the "Honor Harrington" series.It is a naval Science Fiction story set some 2,000 years in the future - the main action in the original book is set in 1900 PD ("Post Diaspora") in the galactic calendar of the time, which corresponds to 4003 AD.The story is re-envisaged for this graphic novel as Honor Harrington is remembering it some years later while a prisoner on the enemy ship "PNS Tepes" (eleven years later in the original books, six years later in this one). That story is told in the seventh book in the series, "In Enemy Hands." Putting Honor's recollection of the story in that timeframe gives this graphic novel a very dark tone, as at that point Honor was under sentence of death and being both tormented and tortured by the sadistic Cordelia Ransom, one of the most powerful members of the "Committee of Public Safety" which runs the "Peeps" (a.k.a. People's Republic of Haven, e.g. the bad guys.)I don't often read graphic novels but I could not resist this one as I wanted to see what the artists would do with David Webers' original story.The Honor Harrington novels are to some extent "marmite" books in the sense that a lot of people, of whom I am one, enormously enjoy them but some other readers hate them. I suspect the same will be true of this graphic novel version.This version is bookended with episodes on the battlecruiser "PNS Tepes", and has a few interludes on the Tepes added, but the majority of it is devoted to the events "On Basilisk Station" in 1900 PD (4003 AD by our calendar) and it is reasonably true to the story in that first Honor Harrington novel.That story begins as the newly promoted Commander Honor Harrington takes up her first significant command as captain of the old light cruiser "H.M.S. Fearless" which has just been rebuilt with a very unusual armament.Honor Harrington comes from a middle-class family with little naval tradition - both her parents are doctors, although we subsequently learned that her dad's entry to medical school had been his reward after being decorated for bravery while serving as a rating in the Manticoran navy. Honor has worked her way up the officer ranks of the navy of the Star Kingdom of Manticore on pure ability with no influential family friends to support her. At times it seems that her only friend in the navy is her "Treecat" Nimitz.Treecats are six-legged creatures similar in size and shape to terran cats, who are fully telepathic among themselves and empaths with humans - e.g. they can read a human's emotions and sometimes form a unique bond with a specific human within which the exchange of emotions is two-way. Some people make the mistake of assuming that Nimitz is just Honor's pet cat: he is much more than that.After a short spell of wargames with the fleet, during which her unusual armament causes HMS Fearless to experience first trumph and then disaster, the ship is assigned to Basilisk station. Honor is left as senior officer responsible for policing the entire Basilisk system with the completely inadequate force of one cruiser with which to do so.As if that were not bad enough, something is going seriously wrong in the Basilisk system ...Some of the subtleties of the original novel did not make it through into this version: in particular the books, despite the futuristic setting, have strong parallels with Nelson's navy. The assumed technology in the first ten or so novels imposes constraints on space navy officers similar to those which the technology of fighting sail imposed on wet navy officers two hundred years ago. And the galactic situation in the novels contains strong similarities to the strategic and political situation in European history at the time of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. You won't find any of that in this graphic novel. You will, however, find a well-presented and exciting story.The ending of this graphic novel is somewhat inconclusive as we return to PSN Tepes where Commodore Harrington is still awaiting execution six/eleven years later and that situation is not resolved. I presume there is intended to be another graphic novel following on from this, probably based on the last part of the book "In Enemy Hands" and on the following novel "Echoes of Honor."There are a few changes from the original books made for no obvious reason. For example, it was clear from the original books and from the chronology in the Honorverse companion volume (published with "House of Steel") that the events on Tepes take place in 1911 PD (4014 AD by our calendar) which is about eleven years after the main events of "On Basilisk Station" and yet in this graphic novel Cordelia Ransom refers to an event in this book as having taken pIace six years before. I suspect most of the apparent discrepancy may arise because someone was converting dates back and forth between the current and "Honorverse" calendars by adding or subtracting 2103 years and accidentally got the final three years the wrong way round on one of the conversions.I don't regret having read this. But if I had to choose to keep either this graphic version or the original novel, it would take me milliseconds to settle for the original.If you are trying to work out in what order to read the "Honorverse" books, here is a description of the sequence of the first 19 novels. The main sequence of 13 novels which either follow the career of Honor Harrington herself or present an overview consists of1) On Basilisk Station2) The Honor of the Queen3) The Short Victorious War4) Field of Dishonour5) Flag in Exile6) Honor among Enemies7) In Enemy Hands8) Echoes of Honor9) Ashes of Victory10) War of Honor11) At All Costs12) Mission of Honour13) A Rising ThunderThe "Torch" or anti-slavery sequence (with Eric Flint as co-author) focusses on the battle for freedom of people who have been held in slavery by "Manpower," which at first is seen as a huge and corrupt company corresponding to the slave trader interests in Britain and America some two hundred years ago. The books with this focus are(i) Crown of Slaves (set at about the same time as "War of Honor"), and(ii) Torch of Freedom (set at about the same time as "At All Costs").(iii) Cauldron of Ghosts (set at about the same time as "A Rising Thunder" but finishes slightly later. I would recommend reading this one after both "A Rising Thunder" and "Shadow of Freedom")The "Shadow" or Talbot Quadrant sequence consists of three books which focus on that area of the Galaxy, and particularly on the rapidly worsening crisis between Honor Harrington's home star nation of Manticore and the Solarian republic. The books to date in this sub-series are(a) The Shadow of Saganami (overlaps the 1st half of "At All Costs"), and(b) Storm from the Shadows (overlaps "At All Costs" but starts and finishes later.)(c) Shadow of Freedom (set at about the same time as "A Rising Thunder" and "Cauldron of Ghosts" but finishes slightly earlier than the latter book and sets up the end of that story)(d) Shadow of Victory (retells some of the stories of the last few books and finishes a couple of hours later than "Cauldron of Ghosts." Currently the only place where you can find out what happens to terminate the career of the main villain of the last few books)There is also an Honorverse "Companion" reference book, "House of Steel", some short story collections, and two prequel series both set about 400 years before Honor Harrington's time.The "Star Kingdom of Manticore" series is about treecats and Honor's ancestor Stephanie Harrington who was the first human "adopted" by one, and consists ofa) A Beautiful Friendshipb) Fire Timec) Treecat WarsWeber and two co-authors, Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope, are currently working on the "Manticore Ascendant" prequel trilogy set in the same century as the treecat series.The first two stories in that trilogy are "A call to duty" and "A call to arms" and fans have been waiting impatiently for months for the final part "A call to vengeance" publication of which has been delayed until 2018.

As a David Weber fan i decided to buy this anyway although graphic novels are not really my thing, I prefer old fashioned books. However i was really pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it. Plot is well put together, maybe with a TV series in mind and is consistent with the earlier books. I look forward to the next one.If you are not already a David Weber fan this could get you hooked!

doesn't really cover the nuances of the book and misses out alot so much in fact i wonder what the point of the adaptation was i keep arriving at the wordmoney

As a fan of Weber's Honor Harrington saga, I was hoping that the graphic novel would be a good representation. It is in NO way a verbatim retelling, but I think it does quite a good job in this medium. The original novels built the conflicts - both interpersonal and interstellar - over time, whereas the graphic novel has had to generate the situation quickly. Other reviewers have commented negatively on the graphics, but I actually like them. I suppose it's just a matter of taste. No matter, I think the the results are very good and I definitely recommend it... just don't expect it to compare to the novels.

I think all Honor Harrington books are fantastic and that all females looking for a beyond reproach role model look no farther. David keep up the Awesome writing. though i found that the graphic novel took a lot of artistic license with the story it kept the character to the true.