Squire & Knight vol 2: Wayward Travelers s/c back

Beautiful forms, compositions and colours which reminded me of Ted Naifeh. It's a natural palette of olive greens, timber, stone and mud. And when lightning strikes, it's thrilling!

Rash, brash, boastful Sir Kelton and his long-suffering squire are well off the beaten track, having been entrusted with escorting to the elusive School Of Wizardry an excitable goblin child who's much taken by Sir Kelton's exuberant bravado and perhaps slightly embellished accounts of his own derring-do.

It's not a forest they're familiar with but during the course of their very long day they encounter tall cairns built of rocks to guide a wanderer's way. Each cairn bears a metal plate promising: 'TO AID THE WAYWARD TRAVELER'. The same message, and over again...

You don't think it could be exactly the same cairn over and over again?

Lost in a medieval fantasy forest... what horrors could possibly be lurking there?

Some great jokes gradually gain in comedic value as they're revisited, and I like the pep talk which the squire once received from his queen, the full extent and benefit of which is also slowly revealed as their travels - inevitably - turn into travails and a whole heap of trouble.

The squire sure does pout a lot - he has a lot to pout about! - and at his most frowny looks just like Thomas Brodie-Sangster.