Issue Description

Having found a new land where they hope the Matoran will be safe from harm, the Toa Metra have returned to Metru Nui to save the rest of the population. But they have come back to a city radically changed, and for the worse - darkness and strange webs shroud the buildings, and earthquake has badly damaged large areas, and bizarre creatures are visible moving through the mist. Worse, the Archives have been shattered, freeing every Rahi inside to roam the city. 
Despite all this, Toa Vakama remains confident that his team can rescue the sleeping Matoran from beneath the Coliseum and get them out of the city. After all, they are Toa! They have defeated Makuta, Dark Hunters, Vahki, and the Morbuzakh. There is nothing in this city of shadows that could harm them... 
Or is there?

Bionicle (2001)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

Bionicle covers the journey of bio-mechanical beings called Toa in a world shrouded in darkness, they are the ones chosen to bring light to the inhabitants of their world, the Matoran. As the story evolves different groups of Toa are focused on, starting with the Toa Mata, the heroes of Mata-Nui, and moving on to the Toa Metru in a flashback that ends off the series. Each group has six members, each of whom is able to access and control a different elemental power, fire, earth, water, rock, wind, or ice. Given guidance by Turaga, former Toa who have grown old with the passing of time, the heroes bring battle to the entity called Makuta; Master of Shadows, who, at various times, attempts to enslave the Matoran, kill the Great Spirit (whose name is Mata-Nui and who the Island of Mata-Nui is named after), or kill the Toa themselves.

These issues cover five separate story arcs spanning from 2001 - 2005. Each one flows into the next to make a continuous story that is recounted as if it is being told to the reader like a single legend. Yet, each arc exists very clearly throughout the series and has a definite end point. The comics are in the same story realm as a multitude of novels, also written by Greg Farshtey, so, at times, they appear to be missing key plot points or character descriptions, but that is only because those details are located in the books.

The arcs, in order of appearance and issue number, are roughly:

1. Quest for the Masks - Issues 1 - 3

2. The Bohrok Saga - Issues 4 -12

3. The Mask of Light - Issues 13 -15 (a tie in to the movie by the same title)

4. Vakama's Tale: The Toa Metru - Issues 16 - 21

5. Vakama's Tale: The Web of Shadows - Issues 22 - 27

The whole series is written by Greg Farshtey, who also wrote the series that started where this one stops. Bionicle: Ignition moves onto a different world, and production of this line was cut off to continue the next with a different style of art.

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