{"id":10274,"date":"2010-04-24T02:45:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10274"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:29:46","slug":"jackson-rob-bog-wizards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10274","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Rob – Bog Wizards #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bog Wizards #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had a few doubts about this story coming out of the first issue, wondering a bit if it could hold up over the long term.\u00c2\u00a0 All doubts have been smashed into teeny tiny chunks with this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 First off, just look at that cover.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s brilliant.\u00c2\u00a0 Things pick up where they left off in the last issue, leading up to the second page of the story, and it’s the one I sampled below.\u00c2\u00a0 Go ahead, take a minute to check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 The reaction from the giant was hilarious, as was the reaction from our hero.\u00c2\u00a0 The giant makes a deal with our hero in exchange for not eating him (even though this giant doesn’t eat people anyway), which causes our hero to remorselessly mess things up for everybody else to get himself out of trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 So what gets him back on the side of right?\u00c2\u00a0 The possibility of getting with the fairy queen, of course.\u00c2\u00a0 From here we get some fantastic fight scenes, and here’s where Rob really shines: his depiction of the various monsters.\u00c2\u00a0 Two full pages introduced the monsters a bit earlier (I particularly loved the vaguely Mr. Potato Head looking monster), and great glee is taken in taking these creatures out.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s more, a lot more than you may think with a mini comic,\u00c2\u00a0 but I’m gushing here, and I do have to save some praise.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because this issue comes with a Bog Wizards board game.\u00c2\u00a0 How is it possible to include a board game with a comic?\u00c2\u00a0 Rob has broken the game down into two large color pages, along with three pages of cards to use in the game and a page of characters.\u00c2\u00a0 If you wondered about the names of any of the monsters from the comic, the mystery is solved here (my favorite is called Yogblog).\u00c2\u00a0 All of this comes in a plastic bag with simple instructions, ending with the following disclaimer: “Have cautious fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t expect too much.”\u00c2\u00a0 I think the man’s selling himself short.\u00c2\u00a0 This whole thing goes for about $6, and the arbitrary pricing system in my brain says\u00c2\u00a0 that is just barely too much for a comic (even one that’s this good), but is a steal when you factor in the board game.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t skimp on the details for it either, it looks gorgeous.\u00c2\u00a0 Buy this from the man, we should all do our part to make Bog Wizards a phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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Website Bog Wizards #2 I had a few doubts about this story coming out of the first issue, wondering a bit if it could hold up over the long term.\u00c2\u00a0 All doubts have been smashed into teeny tiny chunks with this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 First off, just look at that cover.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s brilliant.\u00c2\u00a0 Things pick up where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1346,2949],"class_list":["post-10274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bog-wizards","tag-rob-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10293,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions\/10293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}