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Forgotten Realms - The Legend of Drizzt Omnibus Volume 2

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CountZero
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A fairly good adaptation of the Icewind Dale Trilogy. The graphic novel format allows for skipping some of the descriptive exposition, and lets the art carry the fight scenes a little better than the book does (particularly related to the fact that scimitars aren't exactly thrusting weapons, and Salvatore tends to have Drizzt stabbing a bunch).

If I have one complaint, it's that Cattie-Brie's armor toward the end of The Halfing's Gem has the Female Fantasy Armor problem - of both the bared midriff and boob armor variety. I understand this is comics and you want to be stylized, but there's got to be a better way to do it. Or at the very least, just pick one - either do the bared midriff thing (leaves an important chunk of you wide open), or the boob armor (directs blades towards your heart), but don't do both. It's not just kinda sexist, it's also kinda tacky. At least when Frazetta did that lack-of-wardrobe design for his female characters, he was either doing John Carter of Mars (where everyone is mostly naked), or Swords & Sorcery (where, again, stylistically everyone is mostly naked).

This is Heroic fantasy of the European bent, and those outfits just don't work as well.

July 13, 2015Report this review