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Skullkickers: Treasure Trove, Volume 1 (2012)

by Jim Zub(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1607063743 (ISBN13: 9781607063742)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Image Comics

review 1: I love this comic! Funny as hell, exciting, wonderfully written, marvelously drawn, and a lot deeper than the premise would lead one to suspect. I wasn't familiar with the comic, or with Jim Zub, until some web comic (Schlock Mercenary, perhaps?) provided a link to where it's been republished on the web, 3 comic pages per week. Well, I started at the beginning, read up as far as they'd gotten, and I've kept up ever since. Some web comics I'm happy to just read for a while and then forget about. Others, like this was for me, are so good that I feel a need to give the author money in some way. When I saw that this book (and volume 2) were available, I snapped them up. And I was happy to read through these stories again.Volume 2 is up on the (many!) shelves full of unread boo... moreks at my house; I'm saving it for when I need some laugh-out-loud satisfaction. Or when I get my hands on Treasure Trove Volume 3. Whichever is first. Awesome stuff.
review 2: Skullkickers: Treasure Trove is about two guys (a dwarf who uses axes and a big, bald guy with a magical pistol) who go around town and kick skulls in. This all takes place in a mid-earth type of setting. Hence the title: Skullkickers.The first arc, our two main characters set off to find the killer responsible for assassinating a noble person. They fight zombies and a boss-like character at the end of the first arc.The second arc of this beautiful hardcover continues right off where we left our main protagonists as they battle in a sewer and visit a different town. However, their opponents are much different from zombies. One character I really liked was the elven thief/ranger named Kusia. I am a sucker for female elves as I used to play one in D&D.Anyways, I thought this was a real fun adventure but I just could not stand the '66 Batman noise words in practically every panel. It took away from the art and its abundance was too annoying. It was okay here and there but felt like it was excessive and I just wanted it to stop. They might as well of had one of the characters take a dump and let the artist write every fart noise the dwarf made.Would I recommend this book? Uhh, maybe. I liked it to a point where I would like read more about Kusia but might end up dropping it to save some dough because the noise words were just the worst for me. less

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