{"id":1999,"date":"2007-05-02T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2007-05-02T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T23:36:00","slug":"duck-week-review-a-duck-related-comic-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"DUCK WEEK REVIEW: A Duck-Related Comic Gem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><b>Dungeon<\/b> By Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, and Various; English editions published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbmpub.com\/humor\/trondheim\/dungeon\/dungeonhome.html\">NBM<\/a>. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_0BhBNaWF4g0\/RjVoXFs_pzI\/AAAAAAAAACY\/DboRZpsImbM\/s1600-h\/dungeonweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059064502297798450\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_0BhBNaWF4g0\/RjVoXFs_pzI\/AAAAAAAAACY\/DboRZpsImbM\/s200\/dungeonweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dungeon Volume 1: Duckheart<\/b> (<i>96 pages, full color, $14.95<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><b>Dungeon Volume 2: The Barbarian Princess<\/b> (<i>96 pages, full color, $14.95<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><b>Dungeon The Early Years Volume 1: The Night Shirt<\/b> (<i>96 pages, full color, $14.95<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><b>Dungeon Twilight Volume 1: Dragon Cemetary<\/b>: Duckheart (<i>96 pages, full color, $14.95<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><b>Dungeon Twilight Volume 2: Armageddon<\/b> (<i>96 pages, full color, $14.95<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/p>\n<p>Please note that these are only the volumes available in English, and as of this writing, there is one more English volume that I have yet to obtain\/read&#8211;expect another review in the future!<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"left\">A series of graphic novels, originally published as <i>Donjon<\/i> in France, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dungeon_%28comics%29\"><i>Dungeon<i><\/a><\/i><\/i> tells the story of Herbert the Duck, his friend Marvin the Dragon, and their boss, the Dungeon Master Hyacinth (who, if I&#8217;m not mistaken, is a chicken). The main series focuses on Herbert&#8217;s adventures, the <i>Early Years<\/i> sheds light on Hyacinth&#8217;s life before he became Dungeon Master, and <i>Twilight<\/i> tells the of the last days of Marvin and the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>A fantasy adventure peppered with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Role-playing_game\">RPG<\/a> references and filled with slapstick comedy, Tom &amp; Jerry-esque violence, dark humor, and absurdism, <i>Dungeon<\/i> nevertheless depicts a complex world populated by sympathetic characters with great depth. The dramatic moments are poignant and never over-done.<\/p>\n<p><b>Verdict<\/b>: <i>Awesome<\/i>. It&#8217;s really tough for me to convey just how much I enjoy this series. Economically, the comic book industry has been very healthy for the past few years, but in terms of content, there hasn&#8217;t been much that has appealed to me. <i>Dungeon<\/i> is a very compelling breath of fresh air&#8211;the closest comparison I could draw is the widely lauded <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usagi_Yojimbo\">Usagi Yojimbo<\/a><\/i>, another comic book tale of an anthropomorphic warrior in an ancient time. At any rate, <i>Dungeon<\/i> is highly recommended&#8211;give the first volume (<i>Duckheart<\/i>) a try! Just one word of warning&#8211;these books aren&#8217;t necessarily for kids! Give it a read before you hand it to a wee one.<\/p>\n<p><b>For More Duck Adventures In Sequential Art<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Life_and_Times_of_Scrooge_McDuck\">The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck<\/a>, by Don Rosa (256 pages, full color, $16.99)&#8211;the title pretty much explains it all!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dungeon By Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, and Various; English editions published by NBM. Dungeon Volume 1: Duckheart (96 pages, full color, $14.95) Dungeon Volume 2: The Barbarian Princess (96 pages, full color, $14.95) Dungeon The Early Years Volume 1: The Night Shirt (96 pages, full color, $14.95) Dungeon Twilight Volume 1: Dragon Cemetary: Duckheart (96 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}