Review of 'Here There Be Gerblins (The Adventure Zone Graphic Novels #1)' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
4.25 It's a good RPG story and the illustrations are beautiful. You also get a good long story for a comic book. The humour is mostly spot-on, though outright chuckles were rare in my case. Not everybody is going to like the big plot twist, though. Some way too easy challenges were probably deeper in the actual podcast - or not, this is D&D-based after all.
The only really bad thing are the many blank (black-scaled) pages to set off the chapters from each other. I get the point that you don't want to start the next chapter in plain view of the previous one, but a single page would have worked fine, especially in the case of one-page chapters. It might seem a bit miserly, but there are 28 of these "blank" (but really black) pages - more than 10% of the book. The trees and the ink could …
4.25 It's a good RPG story and the illustrations are beautiful. You also get a good long story for a comic book. The humour is mostly spot-on, though outright chuckles were rare in my case. Not everybody is going to like the big plot twist, though. Some way too easy challenges were probably deeper in the actual podcast - or not, this is D&D-based after all.
The only really bad thing are the many blank (black-scaled) pages to set off the chapters from each other. I get the point that you don't want to start the next chapter in plain view of the previous one, but a single page would have worked fine, especially in the case of one-page chapters. It might seem a bit miserly, but there are 28 of these "blank" (but really black) pages - more than 10% of the book. The trees and the ink could have been saved for something more useful.
