Enjoyable addition to the Ender saga by Orson Scott Card. It's been a while since I last read [b:Ender's Game|375802|Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)|Orson Scott Card|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316636769s/375802.jpg|2422333], so I did not spot the plot discrepencies that others have pointed out. What did bother me was how matter-of-factly the characters in this book dealt with First Contact. I think there should have been a bit more debate even among the adventurous, though stoic, miners. On the up side, the story was exciting and the art was effective. ( )

I'm not going to say Orson Scott Card wrote this, because he didn't. His name might be plastered there, but that's how far it actually goes. I expected too much from it and got a very weak story peppered with cliche after cliche after cliche. And to top that off it doesn't even finish the invasion, it ends with a massive cliffhanger - which will probably be continued in another series.

The artwork is very good, but if I'm ever reading it again, it'll be as a picture-book and nothing more.

I was going to buy the whole comic-book series based on Card's novels but now I have serious doubts. Maybe the ones that are based on the novels are better, as opposed to Formic Wars: Burning Earth for which they had to "write" (if you can even call it that) new material. ( )