Tandra: The Dragonrok Saga

Hanthercraft Publications

Review By AJ Reardon

Yep, that's right, I volunteered myself to review Indie books from Uncommon Con. It's amazing the things one will agree to when one is bored enough. Well, it turned out well enough. I got some entertainment, and I get to get more dissing these comics. Bwuhahaha! Hopefully, someone out there gets as much enjoyment reading these things as I get writing them.

This month's target is Tandra: The Dragonrok Saga #1. This is one of those wonderful #1s that's not really a #1. It's the start of a new story, not a new comic. So I come in having no idea what's going on, and I soon realize I don't care. Let me sum it up for those of you who don't feel like reading a whole review: This comic was so bad that I had to force myself to read it.

Yes! It is SO boring that the first time I read it, I got a few pages into it and set it down. I couldn't go on. But I knew that eventually I would have to review it, so one day when I was really bored, I went through the whole thing. It didn't get any better. It got worse. It stayed just as boring, but got dumber! Oooh! Amazing!

Let's see what I can remember about it without having to re-read the story to hash out all the details.

It's published by someplace called Hanthercraft Publications. This issue seems to date all the way back to '93, so I doubt you'll be finding it on your comic shop's rack. Pity. The art is by some guy named Hanther. I think the writing is too. It's set up in an almost newspaper-strip form, because that's how it used to be published. God only knows how they got this boring drek into the newspaper.

On the back of the comic it's touted as "a book for grownups." Translation: it's a lot like a romance novel. Men with big muscles, women with great bodies and little clothing. There's a god-awful break-up speech, a chick in a fur bikini nursing a guy back to health... Very cliche. Oh yes, and the cover features a manly man battling something that looks like a cross between a dinosaur and the Furby my Mom got for the holidays, while a girl in leopard skin panties poses distressfully... puh- lease!

The art is good, in a newspaper comic strip sort of way. Well-detailed, but really not stand-out, and certainly not enough to make up for the dreky story.

I'm already bored trashing it. Sorry folks. Tune in next month when I deflate the ego of the Clockwork Storybook people! Woohoo! I know I'm sure looking forward to it. I hope you are, too!


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