First TPB (2001-2004 CrossGen) comic books 2002
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Issue #2-1ST
Published Jul 2002 by CrossGen Comics.$5.99
Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Magnificent Tension!" Collects First (2000-2003) #8-13, plus almost 30 pages of back-up stories. Written by Barbara Kesel. Art by Bart Sears and Andy Smith. Cover by Bart Sears and Michael Atiyeh. This volume continues the personality politics of the 'First,' gods of the CrossGen Universe in the process of being deposed from that self-proclaimed role because of the creation of the Sigil-Bearers. Anxiety over the powerful new arrivals has ruptured the fault lines in the social structure of the First, causing Ingra, Leader of House Sinister, to make a bold move to begin her planned takeover of House Dexter. Seahn has collected together the unhappy second-born, ready to demand that they be given equal status to the First. Persha, Ingra's daughter, sneaks over to House Dexter to meet Pyrem, her father and Leader of that House. And Gannish the Truthseeker visits a small blue-green globe and learns a frightening truth about the reality of the First. Softcover, 200 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.
