While it was somewhat confusing at times plot wise, I see a HUGE potential in these series and I'm really hoping that it will shine through in later installments. Remender lists famed series like “Dune” and “Lord of the Rings” as direct inspiration for this mashup of sci-fi and fantasy and it shows. Osidis’ devoted daughter Katie – who has red hair like her father, is a crack shot with a bow and has an uncanny tracking ability – has disobeyed her father and follows him. Either way, the series can’t be read without the pall of the previous year and the four… years to come hanging over the high-fantasy narrative.

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As we learn early on through flashbacks focused on Zeb, Adam’s stubborn father, the Mud King rose to power not through brute force, but via his ability to “Whisper” and plant the seeds of distrust and betrayal in the hearts of others while promising the listener whatever she or he desires most.

Adam Osidis, a dying knight from a disgraced house, must choose either to join a hopeless band of magic users in their desperate bid to rid their world of the evil god, or to accept the god’s promise to give him everything his heart desires.

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The artists help, of course, especially contrasted with that grubby, doughy look in Johnson: here it's Jerome Opeña adding something unhealthy to the classic fantasy chassis, like Clark Ashton Smith got very slightly into steampunk before being asked to do a Tolkien riff. The art takes me in so completely; the themes translating perfectly from script to image; a myriad little details to look at; the weirdness, so strange and yet so oddly familiar; the social commentary. In a back matter essay, Remender describes his approach to the book as “decompressed,” but that’s not quite accurate: Within this first volume (collecting four issues of a proposed 12, with the opportunity for more if reader demand allows), Adam Osidis confronts the Mud King, reckons with painful familial losses and joins up with a ragtag band of fellow insurgents. With its Western themes, castles, futuristic technology, and bizarre creatures in these ‘blasted lands,’ I can’t help but be directly reminded of Stephen King’s magnum opus, “The Dark Tower. I hope Remender can get a better handle on this in the next volume--now that things have settled down into a journey narrative, the story should be easier to follow and perhaps enough background can be filled in to make this a worthwhile endeavor.Osidis initially presents as a courageous father who survives against formidable odds, but at the end of the day, he is corruptible. Esta historia ya me gustaba mucho y considero que el arte está entre lo mejor que se ha hecho en los últimos años en cómic a nivel general, por lo que esta me parece que es una maravillosa edición coleccionable. An origin story for a villain, this book is able to slowly and carefully peel back layers while the journey moves on towards its inevitable ending. The last issue needed to be longer and probably would have been better as two distinct issues to give the ending time to breathe.

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It really goes far beyond the idea of what is a hero and what is a villain, to really ask the tough questions of its characters and its society. And on the left as on the right, the rush to judgement to believe *any* accusation of wrongdoing without any evidence? From start to finish, it layers all the threads that have been woven into a tapestry of everything from waging a war on the inherent loneliness of being alive to vanquishing the most monstrous villain there is, Self-Interest. Is the art awesome and the story intriguing enough nonetheless to make me want to read the next volume? A seriously cool world with tons of messed up backstory, a fantastic cast of characters, cool magic and a pretty kickass villain.All the characters are so multifaceted, that their roles never fall into a black and white, good or evil, forcing you to question everyone. The other reason is that Remender hangs all of these elements on a pretty simple plot: deliver the very important package. Hell of a finale; I loved the way this book ran the truth into the ground as if a supervillain were driving a superhero straight into the planet's core. The ending definitely feels sudden thanks to the time jump at the end (I imagine it felt more sudden for folks who read this after the 2 year publishing delay), but I enjoy the resolution the more I think about it.

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As she follows his trail and uncovers his decisions, inexplicably wrong at turns, her sense of disbelief transforms into despair, and, eventually, to resolve. The world building is minimal which isn’t a bad thing so the book can solely focus on its narrative but I feel we could have gotten a bit more than we did as this whole story is one big road trip moving from place to place and seeing civilisation after civilisation you can’t help but want to learn more.This is The Dirty Dozen in an Epic Fantasy setting, with all the twisted bits for all to see and no one wins. This enables the shade of his father, Zeb, to determine whether or not Osidis has indeed listed to the Mud King’s offer, and judge him.