“The Feast of the Moon” graphic novel brings the further wild adventures of Edgin's party! The IDW comic book is the prequel to the current Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves fantasy movie. It features a cover by interior artist, Eduardo Ferigato. It has the quartet of heroes; Edgin, Holga, Simon, and Forge above a silhousette of villagers chasing them! Above them is the hovering undead dragon, a Dracolich! Jeremy Lambert who also wrote the 2017 Goosebumps comic book for IDW. Self/Made, the Image Comics mini-series, featured the art of Ferigato. It begins in media res with a night moon, Edgin looking upwards, and then he is thrown backwards by an explosion. His narration says “We’re good at our jobs” and also that they had only three failures. It includes this incident! They are caught by an elf sorcerer who also has a flying imp. Edgin’s daughter, Kira, was seen by him even though she was invisible!
He sends her to retreat. Simon tries to cast a spell, but is about to be attacked by the imp. It is taken care of by Holga’s axe, but it is taken away by the sorcerer who threatens to put them all on wanted posters as he escapes! Fergiato’s artwork is cartoony and captures some of the actors’ likenesses. Edgin’s plan has failed even though Kira had tried to warn him. They head to town and find in a two page splash, the villagers leaving, somber, and carrying half-moon banners and torches of blue flame. They enter the Friendly Bat tavern and find a mother, Mae, and daughter, Muren, trying to assemble a scarecrow of a man. It turns out that they are building an effigy to Grunnald, the father, who tried to stop bandits in the caverns. The effigy’s head falling off is funny. Holga pours a mug of ale on it as tribute. Edgin has Simon use the fireplace flames to wrap around themselves as the group to save the day! I like this scene!
Mae offers to give them the silver that the bandits take for protection money, a stay at her inn, and all that they can drink. On their way to take on the bandits, Edgin is met by someone who knows him, but he doesn’t recognize her. One of his past Harper colleagues, an Elf knight, named Kip. They divide into two groups; Forge and Kira who joins him with Holga, and Edgin, Simon, with Kip who joins the party. They raise the money the town has owed the bandits and Edgin has found a blacksmith who gave them an axe which he gives to Olga. They see leaving the town, the bandits whom Kip knows are the Bandits of the Pale Claw. Kip goes off to chase after the bandits, she really isn’t interested in joining Edgin’s new group, and they end up facing a demonic Tiefling barbarian, a Dragonborn sorcerer, and two skeletons! The sorcerer casts Hold Person, Mass, paralyzing them, and sacks are thrown over their heads! They find themselves in a mine cart taken to the Dracolich! They have to somehow defeat the Bandit King who looks familiar and somehow escape the Dracolich!
The back-up story, “Xenk and the Helmet of Disjunction”, is by Ellen Boener and Guillermo Sanna. The artist also worked on the Ablaze horror comic, Lovecraft Unknown Kadath. This story ties directly into the movie so possible spoilers! It is the end of a battle between two armies with a Black Dragon flying overhead. Sanna’s art is stunning with blocky figures similar to Mike Mignola’s art. The dark colors by Mattia Iacono are stark reds and later blacks against the artwork. Xenk Yendar introduces himself as he is given a magical helmet. He is a Paladin from Thay, a land ruled by the undead lich, Szass Tam. Sanna captures the look of actor, Regé-Jean Page. He rides to try to find a safe place for it, but he is turned away from a ruler on a tower, fights a Dracolich, and a Illithid, Mind Flayer, in the Underdark! Then, he hears a cry for help from a Deep Gnome trapped under a boulder. Xenk lifts it off, but it is a ruse as her Deep Gnome brother snatches the helmet! The clever gnomes say they need the helmet to save their family from the Illithids! The two stories make for some back stories of the movie characters! The Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - The Feast of the Moon graphic novel has some fun adventures with familiar characters!
Four Axes out of Five!
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