Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Book Review: The Mushroom Knight vol. 2


An adolescent girl named Lem searches the deep dark woods for her missing dog, entangling her destiny with a chivalrous mushroom faerie named Gowlitrot on a mystical quest to protect the biome from catastrophic ruin.

As their friendship develops, Gowlitrot pledges to aid Lem in a quest to discover the fate of her missing dog, but as the search progresses, they uncover perilous betrayals that challenge the foundation of each of their worlds— both inner and outer. The natural world may never appear the same again.

The Mushroom Knight vol. 2 by Oliver Bly, Steph Snow and Anna Marie Navaja will be released on November 5, 204. Mad Cave Studios provided an early galley for review.

Continuing where volume 1 left off, this richly illustrated, dark and stylized fantasy story is oddly fascinating. It reminds me of the type of stories that would appear back in the day in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine; not the usual comic book fare I made a steady diet of but certainly something outside of the box to cleanse my palette.

The way that Lem and Gowli start to bond is presented with a magical innocence. It is a timeless kind of relationship, seen many times before, but it is one that hits the mark when presented well as done here.

The next three chapters of this story go by at a fairly quick pace but also in a most satisfying way. I certainly look forward to the next installment of this story.

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