The Travelers #8by Barb Lien-CooperReviews may contain information that could be considered 'spoilers'. Readers should proceed at their own risk.
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Credits Grade: 7 I read a great preview comic for a comic called The Fix by Tony DiGerolamo awhile back and gave it a positive review. I liked the sense of humor to it, which was absurd, clever, knowing, yet never cruel or too silly. Well, I haven't seen another issue of The Fix yet, but I was lucky enough to get my hands on DiGerolamo's Travelers, which has all the good qualities of The Fix preview. Travelers confirms that DiGerolamo has his act down. The Fix wasn't just a lucky shot of a preview. Instead, as Travelers proves, the man has some real talent, in that post-Hitchhiker's Guide sort of a way.Travelers has that same feel as the Discworld books, except not quite so frantic (not a criticism or a compliment, just a comparison/contrast). If you like your sword and sorcery fantasy to be funny, then you’ll like Travelers. The set up: There's a group of fantasy heroes who make the Inferior Five look like a Mensa meeting. Our heroic friends all end up becoming vampires and have to track down Dracula in order to regain their humanity. To say more would ruin the jokes. This book has one liners, groaners, plot twists that make you laugh, character bickering that's always amusing, and so forth. It skewers the vampire genre and the dungeons and dragons genres without damaging the elements that make people love these genres. The art is realistic with just enough cartoon in there to make us understand that this is a humor book. Final word on the subject: Travelers is like a less frenetic, more G-rated, less surreal, more linear version of early Howard the Duck (Howard started out as a sword and sorcery spoof when it was first written, believe it or not). More trips to the back issue boxes for me, I see. Written: May 8, 2002
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