A review by theartolater
Dungeons & Dragons, Vol. 2: First Encounters by Andrea Di Vito, John Rogers
4.0
About two-thirds of the way through reading this second volume of the Dungeons and Dragons comic, I was thoroughly enjoying myself. I put it down for a bit, but I didn't really know why - after all, if you're enjoying something you're reading, you don't necessarily want to stop.
The story isn't perfect, and it's filled with standard fantasy tropes and the type of lame humor everyone loves at the gaming table and nowhere else. The artwork is also classic, and combine all of it together, and I answer my question: the D&D comic is simply a perfect presentation of material that you almost certainly have a nostalgic feel for if you were actually driven to pick the book up. It's just fun.
Sadly, I believe there are only three volumes of this. I'm hoping John Rogers gets his Arcanum stuff into trade so I can continue having fun with this sort of setting and writing.
The story isn't perfect, and it's filled with standard fantasy tropes and the type of lame humor everyone loves at the gaming table and nowhere else. The artwork is also classic, and combine all of it together, and I answer my question: the D&D comic is simply a perfect presentation of material that you almost certainly have a nostalgic feel for if you were actually driven to pick the book up. It's just fun.
Sadly, I believe there are only three volumes of this. I'm hoping John Rogers gets his Arcanum stuff into trade so I can continue having fun with this sort of setting and writing.