Fantasy comics

This thread archived before I could add Aria. Warrior girl with a sword, some random implied sci-fi stuff in later installments, apparently. Only the first few books are translated in English by a long defunct publisher, I could only find the first book anyway, and none scanned in English.
That said, the art style has some classic Franco-Belgium care to it, a wandering warrior lady in a skimpy tunic fighting baddies when the duty calls in a weird sword and sorcery realm, what more can you want.

Looks interesting

Appears compelling

Looking into this

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started in 1979

only ended in 2021

it's so over

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Reminds me of Thorgal

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Mercenary is a fucking beauty to behold

I scanlated the one about the ravens and the tower years ago. There are scans of the book that got translated out there too, I had them somewhere on some hard drive once.

I hope the rest of these get translated and scanned one day

It's classic pulp fantasy rather than ancient ayyoos and actual gods.

The lettering/ word balloons ruin it, it should be a silent comic

Chronicles of the Black Moon

It's... a thing. Basically the dude who originally translated AD&D, and who seems to be completely unironic about the D&D=Satanism-thing made a really long-running series about his DMPC killing a lot of people while becoming ever-more powerful.

It isn't good, but it's the kind of comfortable trash with decent art you'll buy for a long time. Helped that Froideval is in charge of the art, though he peaked pretty early on in this one and seems to use it to relentlessly experiment with styles.

I read it until the 15th album, which is the one where they portal into another universe and fight the local snekts for land.

Pretty much all of them are good in their own way. Corum also has some cool early Mignola

Never read the novels, didn't much care for the comic. Some of the folks who did read the novel allegedly like the sword being yandere.

I read the first 15 volumes. Definitely worth it. Heard it gets bad not far from where I left off though
No way, dude the series is hilarious and wouldn't be without the dialogue

It's always kinda funny how rapid the turnover rate on this indian ochre water colour landscape painting board is.

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What did he mean by this

The folks back then really liked Alim the Tanner.

hope there's more action with the boy in future

A bit depressing but worth a read.

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I remember reading this, it was pretty good. French stuff always have a lot of real unique fantasy stuff going on.

Basically the dude who originally translated AD&D, and who seems to be completely unironic about the D&D=Satanism-thing made a really long-running series about his DMPC killing a lot of people while becoming ever-more powerful.

Fascinating. Basically the guy who exists in Jack Chick's mind but for real?

Looks alright. Also yes, it is fucked to one day realized you're the "oldfag" and are surrounded by people who came years later, dictating to you how the board works. Doesn't help that Anon Babble can have a schism between both cartoons and comics some times

I dunno if he ever went fully: "You die in the game, you die for real.", but he very obviously really likes Satanism.

Eh, like I constantly storytimed my scanlations for two or three years, and my impression was that I never ran out of people who saw my stuff for the first time. The turnover rate here is significant.

I remember the dialogue being awful.

Which one are you, Kakanian?

Aye.

Anymore stuff directly connected to Anon Babble stuff? Whether it be tie-in's or based on campaigns or the like

pls come back

Got prepublished in the same mag. Also sorta similar early genre twist. Thorgal takes place in the middle ages but there's a spacefaring race that has passed itself as gods (even though there are actual gods), Aria takes place in a post-apocalypse that has devolved to med-fan but a lot of the magic is actually from tech relics

Funny story, before the comic there were already two adaptations of the universe of his my-D&D-character-has-the-biggest-balls-ever campaign, a wargame called Ave Tenebrae and the videogame Drakkhen.

We had a storytime of Thieves & Kings back in January
Strongly recommend it if you don't mind the shifts to prose at times

Nice rack.

I don't know if I'd call any Elric comics the gold standard. French comics mog the fuck out of the older stuff art wise, but they take a lot of liberties with the story. iirc they just completely glossed over huge parts of Sailor on the Seas of Fate including the kino evil transdimensional wizard building fight

There's a million of Conan and general Robert E Howard comics out there, you could survive for years

Look at those knockers

I wish I had friends to play tabletop RPG's with