Sunday Trade: Dominic Deegan

Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire: Seer's Digest by Michael Terracciano

The first collected volume of Michael "Mookie" Terracciano's long-running webcomic. "Seer's Digest" introduces the strips two main characters, Dominic Deegan the grumpy but kind-hearted Seer. And Luna Travoria, a talented mage afflicted with tusks and crushingly low self-esteem. The comic starts out light enough, concentrating on Dominic's frustration and contempt for the majority of his clients. But it quickly gets more serious (well mostly more serious) introducing Luna's mother and her attempts to get her daughter killed. Plus arrogant knights, infernal wizards and really creepy necromancers...

A good deal of long-term set-up takes place in this volume. Future stories involving Dominic's brothers (one a optimistic "White" magic caster, the other that really spooky necromancer), the crazy-ass Chaos cult The Chosen, the Knights of Callan and the demon-tainted Infernomancers. One important warning though. Many of the characters can't seem to resist..punning. *shudder*