"Hero Cave," is a new upcoming comic by Syd Madia. It is to be published later this month by Silver Sprocket, which is currently feuding with TCJ, I should mention, as it is in the news, but that's besides the point of this review--I'll revisit that in the future as needed/newsworthy. I had a chance to read an advance digital copy of this comic, however, and loved this clever story! The comic is about a skeleton with no name--everyone just calls them skeleton. This skeleton is on the first floor of a dungeon and basically exists to be an easy challenge for all adventurers going into the dungeon. They meet the skeleton, defeat it easily, and proceed on their journey. Between quickly losing fights, skeleton hangs out with other dungeon-dwellers for meals, parties, and the like. Life is okay, but skeleton finds themselves having a bit of an existential crisis when given a so-so performance review by the Dungeon Master.
"Hero Cave," is very clever in how it focuses on an aspect of a dungeon people would rarely worry about--the easy baddie you kill early on in your heroic campaign. Madia's artwork is lovely too, a bit cartoony and loose, getting especially experimental later on when skeleton has a vaguely erotic experience with a candle that allows it to imagine what it would be like to have other body elements besides just bones. Plus, despite the comic being humorous, we never feel like the jokes are at the skeleton's expense. Yes, they lose easily, but that is their job, and they're arguably good at it! I really enjoyed, "Hero Cave," and would encourage folks to ask their comic shop to order the comic for them--that or they can preorder it from Silver Sprocket here!
5 out of 5 Stars.
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