I remember most of the details from the book, but seeing the story unfold with the help of such beautiful and detailed artwork is totally worth the read. While the artwork does get quirky at times with exaggerated character poses, it excels at the vistas from space and from the featured planet. The detailed station and ships are amazing, a real treat for the eye of not just a fan of the series, but I'm sure for new readers alike. This is a military space opera of the highest caliber, so don't ex...

To frame this discussion correctly, I've not read any of the source books for this, so my viewpoint on this is solely from experiencing the graphic.The story is set in an unnecessary flashback framework of Honor remembering her first assignment while being interrogated in bound isolation, perhaps because they thought it important to torture a character I had no investment in. It then proceeds to tell the story of an up and coming captain named Honor Harrington, who has had to fight her way to th...

An enjoyable adaptation of the first Honor Harrington novel, told as a series of flashbacks.

This is a five issue collection of the new comic retelling of On Basilisk Station. I've read most of the books in the series and I liked how they decided to tell this story in flashbacks from an event in the future of the series. The down side is reading this as a collection there is the constant summary of what has happened in the prior issues. The art is nice but I’m not sold on the treecat art but that is more of a subjective taste. This isn't the entire version of On Basilisk Station but eno...

The graphics are... Not good. Awkwardly CGI-like, weird angles, and it's almost like the artists tried to make it more futuristic by making them look less human. Or they are just as bad as I am at drawing human faces. The writing is stilted and more awkward than the graphics. In trying to recreate the original novel, Hawkins lost all the natural smoothness of David Weber.

Based on a series of sci-fi novels I am unfamiliar with, I read this because it was included in a Humble Bundle I picked up years ago. I found it pretty boring and uninteresting, and I didn't bother reading all of the "science lesson" that Hawkins includes in the back (mostly just character intros and some stuff about a mobile game--what the heck)The story is about Honor Harrington, an amazing and flawless super commander woman who kicks all kinds of butt and has the brains to boot--plus an emot...

I've been keeping up on the monthlies. Overall, the comics do a pretty good job, although I'm much more a fan of the books. Sometimes the illustrations feel a little bit off (the comical way Honor is holding her hip, for example) and Nimitz didn't really strike me as captured properly, but overall it's a fun way to refresh on the books. I highly suggest reading them, the first one is free from the Baen Library.

Amazing book! This is probably the best series i have read all year! If your into Star Trek or Mass Effect, you'll love this! So this based off a novel series, and this first arc is the an adaption of the first novel! Art was beautiful!!! It has that same painted art, similar to Alex Ross's work, where every page looks like a work of art! Story is pretty good, its one of those flashback to explain why the hero is in trouble sort of thing! Overall this is the best story i have read all year and i...

A great re-telling of On Basilisk Station, the first book in the Honor Harrington series. The whole story takes place as a flashback set in the time of In Enemy Hands, a later book. It's done very well and the visuals are great. They don't match my much more cartoonish internal picture, but bring the story and world to life in a way that enriched the images rather than clashed with or replaced them. I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the Tales of Honor series.

Honor Harrington fans have the chance to enjoy their heroine in a graphic novel format. The story takes place in two timelines. In the "present" time, Honor and her crew are being transported aboard a Havenite ship to the prison planet Hades. Honor is sentenced to be executed once they reach the planet. In the meantime, she is enduring torture and interrogation. To distract herself, she thinks back on her first command of the ship HMS Fearless ten years ago and the events that happened at Basili...

Great military Space Opera in comics. Hope to see translated in Italian language.

Lots of creative license taken with the novel it is based on, but tells a visually stunning story. If you aren't familiar with the Honor Harrington books, you might like it more than I did.

StellarVery good story, drawn with exceptional artistry & very well written. I have read most of the Honor Harrington novels & this story brings the characters to life. They do not appear exactly as I have made them in my mind but they are well drawn.

I read the Safehold series first and Out of the Dark at the same time, I had always wanted to pickup the Honor Harrington series when I was a kid, but never got around to it. I regret that now as it is very hard to find any copies in libraries or bookstores. I actually picked this one up by accident, not my own, and decided to give it a shot. Beautiful visuals, good plot, intelligent characters and thrilling action. I still plan on reading the novels in order, but I am happy I got to see the cha...

Gripping story, nice graphics - often spectacular. Graphic novel worth every penny. I'm looking forward to the sequel. Recommended.

It's hard to admit but i was really disappointed by the way the grafics team decided to turn David Webers fantastic world into pictures. It's always hard to visualize a book, especially one that formed so livid images in your mind, and i'm a picky reader, having found much to moan about in things like the Dresdenfile or Asoiaf Comic versions, but they still found a way to catch the essence, the heart of the novel universes. Here next to nothing ever fit what i had expected or hoped for. Not the

If the artwork had been as good as the writing, I'd have given this a fourth star. I am a fairly big fan of David Weber's Honor Harrington series, and thought that the format of this book was very good, telling the story of how she got her military reputation under circumstances that also led to the "bad guy" interstellar nation of Haven declaring her a criminal.Matt Hawkins did a good job with pacing and storytelling, and by telling the story in flashback during a later story that it led to was...

Just lovely - the start of a space opera starring an intelligent and strong woman. Honor Harrington is captured by the enemy, held on the ship that will take her to the enemy's capital planet for a very public execution. And between sequences of her turmoil we read the story of her first command, that was thrown in the middle of a serious conflict between Manticore and Haven - back then at peace.Perhaps it uses some cliches, some tropes, perhaps the story is flawed; but I didn't feel that at all...

Comic books! I was not aware of this book series, and I may add it to my tbr list. This collection was very interesting and I enjoyed it a lot! I will need to read the next few because now I have to see what happens next!

I read the book On Basilisk Station quite a while ago and I was pretty surprised to see it get the graphic novel treatment. So, when I saw this hitting the comic book stores I started picking up the issues. Given the space opera nature of the original series by David Weber I thought this would actually translate into comic book form pretty well.I'm finally sitting down to read these quite a few years after these were originally released and they clearly had some pretty big plans, even an Honor H...