Brief Thoughts on TLOEG: The Black Dossier

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Ok, lets expand on that. Much of the book is in text form. Often odd dialect text form. Which means not enough Kevin O'Neal art. And in addition too much of the book is dedicated to characters I only have the most minimal interset in. Fanny Hill and Orlando in particular. If I wanted Orlando's life story, theres a movie version I remember a former roommate owned. Clever choices in some of the fictional characters (James Bond, Harry Lime, Emma Peel) are offset by using some truly obscure ones for others (The Golliwog? The Doll Twins?) And some ideas probably were better in concept than execution (Post WWII England being under the control 1984's Big Brother). Also, Alan Moore, you like sex. WE GET IT. Please try to focus on it slightly less in the future. Then lastly you have the escape from the Leagues' World of All Fictions to the REAL World of All Fictions (the Blazing World). Ugh...

Heres to hoping the next volume is better. Though it won't be one I buy unseen...

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Out of boredom at work again, I have put several of you into the LOLCatter. Though it does seem to only work with public posts:

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Sunday Trade: Far West

Far West: Vol. 1 by Richard Moore

Ra'Meghan Val'Norium aka Meg is an Elven bounty hunter with a short fuse and a fast draw. Which comes in handy when dealing with Ogres, Trolls, peeping-tom Dwarves and Talking Bears. Well, Phil the Bear is her partner and he's a dab hand with a rifle. In this first volume Meg is looking to hunt down a train robber named Voss. Only problem is he commits his robberies while riding a Great Dragon. Plus of course a rival group of bounty hunters looking to steal him from under her. Oh and some unknown person wants her dead and is willing to use heavy magics to do it. Still for 10,000 Silverbacks she'll put up with it all...

Moore's distinctive art helps to seperate Meg from the pack of gun-toting bad girls. And his mash-up of Westerns and Fantasy creates a setting full of new takes on old tropes. The collection also includes several pages of pin-up art and a back-up story of Meg hunting a shape-shifting Phooka...

Its just ONE flaw

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