This goes back and forth for the first 2-3 issues of this 5 issue series, and it really starts to wear on you. Which should be fun! However, the respective characteristics of the two leads start to get pretty annoying the more time you spend with them away from the rest of the cast of Top 10. He brings Toybox along with him as support. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Shannara, etc., all get lightly made fun of here. Smax has to return to his home dimension, which basically consists of parodies of every fantasy character and series ever made. And overall, this is a very readable, if a little frivolous, series. I was excited to spend more time with Smax and Toybox, two great characters from Moore's prior series Top 10, which I absolutely loved.
Disappointing.Ī beautifully illustrated, occasionally funny parody of high fantasy that ultimately feels pretty uncommitted and half-baked. Not even not good in comparison to Gene Ha's beautiful art from Top 10, because that's a hard standard to meet, but really just not appealing, like it looks like the stuff I see on the back of cereal boxes, it doesn't look like art for grown-ups.
The only thing that was at all cool was the dragon, but the rest of it was just not good at all. The characters were completely shallow, literally jokes and not people I cared about. Everything I loved about Top 10 was totally absent from this book.
And Jeff, one of the heroes of the Top 10 series, is a complete and total idiot in every way in this book, why is that fun? Robyn was the only character who wasn't completely stupid, but she didn't have any depth. The book just makes fun of every fantasy trope in there is, which could have been funny, but came off as insulting, not witty. And I'm not even talking about the incest part. It was supposed to be silly and satirical, but it was just off-putting.
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