Keeping The Blade // The Bag.On.Line Adventures Fanlisting

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The Bag.On.Line Adventures is the full and official title for the series of comic books/graphic novels written by Coheed and Cambria frontman, Claudio Sanchez. (Contrary to popular belief, Coheed and Cambria are not really an "emo" band - they are better classified as progressive rock as they are something of a concept band.) Because of the relative obscurity of the comics, many people who have heard music by Coheed and Cambria have found that they don't understand the lyrics. However, as the fanbase grows and the comics become more popular, this is slowly changing. The series is made up of five stories, each of which coincides with an album of the same name: The Bag.on.line Adventures of Coheed and Cambria (a prequel), The Second Stage Turbine Blade (one story, two volumes), In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV (Volume 1: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness), and Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV (Volume 2: Title To Be Announced).

PLEASE NOTE: The following passages will provide more information about each story in the series as well as spoilers. If you have not read the stories and/or do not wish to see a brief synopsis of each, you should discontinue reading now. You have been warned.

The Bag.On.Line Adventures of Coheed and Cambria

Neither an album nor comic have been released for this story. When they are, they will show the life of Coheed, Cambria, and Jesse as they take part in the elite task force known as the K.B.I. The K.B.I. stands for Knowledge (Cambria), Beast (Coheed), and Inferno (Jesse). This group was created by Dr. Leonard Hohenberger as an anti-terrorist group. Wilhelm discovered that they were actually conspiring against him and he had the project destroyed. Coheed apparently killed Dr. Hohenberger before it was shut down. Before his death, the Doctor had Coheed and Cambria's memories erased and Jesse was sent away to watch over the family as they lived on Hetricus in Sector 11.

This will also explain the original War on Heaven's Fence that caused Wilhelm Ryan to become the leader of the Keywork. The Prise will lose the war, and will be forced to bring about God's End and destroy the Keywork. These sequences lead up to the events in The Second Stage Turbine Blade.

The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Released in the summer of 2004, the two comic books narrate the events of approximately the first third of Coheed and Cambria's concept album The Second Stage Turbine Blade of 2002. They introduce central characters, including the villains Wilhelm Ryan and Mayo Deftinwolf who orchestrate a sinister plot to murder the children of Coheed and Cambria Killgannon in order to use the dormant Monstar virus hidden within Coheed to destroy a rival Mage. Claudio Killgannon escapes murder at the hands of his parents, who have been tricked into believing that their children may cause the destruction of humanity if left alive, and becomes the protagonist of later chapters. As illustrator Wes Abbot is currently on hiatus, the first issue is out of print and the second is becoming rare. It is unclear if Wes Abbot will return to illustrate the remaining issues of The Second Stage Turbine Blade or if Christopher Shy will later illustrate a graphic novel for the entirety of the chapter.

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

To this date, no comic books or graphic novels narrating the events of the 3rd chapter of the Bag.On.Line Adventures, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, have been released, while its corresponding album from Coheed and Cambria was released in late 2003. However, Sanchez has given several hints containing plot details, and a small summary of the chapter's plot has been published on the Evil Ink Comics website:

Ten years after the "…Turbine Blade", son Claudio emerges from the depths of Shylos Ten, the Fence's "quiet" planet where the Red Army performs its brutal interrogations and imprisonments. In finding out that his entire family has been murdered, Claudio begins his quest for vendetta. His foes, Supreme Tri Mage Wilhelm Ryan and General Mayo Detinwolf sense that he is still alive and holds special powers. They know they must stop him before he defeats them. Meanwhile, Inferno takes up arms against the Red Army (“Man your Battlestations”) in an effort to seek the same kind of vengeance. In Claudio’s re-emergence he teams up with Ambellina, the Prise who is cast out by her peers and forced to be his guide. The pair along with Sizer, a disassembled IRO-bot, seek out Inferno to find answers as to why his family were killed, but their plans take an unexpected turn in a ship called the Velourium Camper, and a freighter pilot named Al.

There are plans for artist Christopher Shy to illustrate a graphic novel of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3.

Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness

The graphic novel entitled Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness was released in September of 2005 along with the album of the same name. Illustrated by Christopher Shy, the artist could potentially go back and illustrate a graphic novel for both The Second Stage Turbine Blade and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3, as well as future releases in the saga. The story of Good Apollo takes a step outside the science-fiction narrative of the first three chapters and examines the life of the Writer, a character who is crafting the lives of the protagonist Claudio and his companions in the form of a fictional story. Through a series of delusional conversations with his ten speed bicycle about an unfaithful former lover, the Writer decides he must kill the Prise Ambellina to properly end his story. The events in the narrative itself build up to a final confrontation between Jesse's rebel forces and the Red Army of Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhelm Ryan under the command of General Mayo Deftinwolf, as well as a literal meeting of the Writer and Claudio culminating in the death of Ambellina and Claudio's emergence as the Crowing.

Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 2: TBA

Little is known about the second volume of Good Apollo, other than it will conclude the saga of Coheed and Cambria. The album and story medium have yet to be released.

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For more information about the story behind Co&Ca, visit the Evil Ink Comics site.