Meridian, Vol. 1: Flying Solo

Meridian is the story of Sephie, a sheltered younggirl whose life resembles nothing so much as a fairy tale. The beloved onlychild of the Minister of Meridian, she grows up with an entire floating cityas her playground. Then her father dies, and she inherits a sigil imbuedwith the power to create. So does her wicked Uncle Ilahn, except that hispowers are bent on destruction and domination. Suddenly Sephie finds herselfat the center of a power struggle, and quickly she learns that there is morethan love in the world. Kidnapped to the world of Calador, Sephie's journeyhome to Meridian puts her in the path of many people good and bad that helpher grow up and counter Ilahn's plans to take over her world.A former drama major, Barbara Kesel has been in the comic book industrysince 1981, when she wrote a Batgirl backup story for DetectiveComics. Since then she has written for every major comic company as wellas served as an editor at DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics. Now she iswriting Meridian, The First, and CrossGenChronicles.Steve McNiven is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Heholds a BA in Art Education and a BFA in Sculpture and spent four yearsteaching art to high school kids before coming to CrossGen.Mike Atiyeh's has colored comics for almost every major publisher, includingMarvel, DC, Image, Acclaim, and Wizard Entertainment.