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Sojourn, Volume 1: From the Ashes
After Mordath returns from the dead to reconquer the Five Lands, his warrior trolls kill Arwyn's husband and daughter, prompting her to start a rage-fueled quest to destroy Mordath forever, aided by roguish Gareth and mysterious Neven.
192 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2002
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Ron Marz
1,644 books122 followersMarz is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil’s Due Publishing’s Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.
Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.
His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).
Photo by Luigi Novi.
Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.
His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).
Photo by Luigi Novi.
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March 28, 2018
Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths Reviews
Back in the day, there was a comic publisher that decided to take on the Big Two (DC and Marvel) by doing something different. Headed by the creative team of Barbara Kesel, Mark Waid and Ron Marz, CrossGen comics began publishing stories based not on superheroes but non-traditional comic fare, such as fantasy (Mystic), science fiction (Crux), Victorian detective (Ruse), and samurai action adventure (The Path). Not only that, but CrossGen became one of the first comic publishers to sell subscription to their comics on the internet, allowing subscribers to view all CrossGen’s titles through their web browser. Unfortunately, after some initial success, CrossGen went bankrupt a few years later, but it is easy to enjoy these old series through some really nice trade paperbacks like Sojourn Vol. 1: From the Ashes, which reprints the Sojourn Prequel and issues #1-6.
This epic fantasy series is set in the Five Lands of the planet Quin, which are inhabited by different races. Like most classical fantasy tales, Sojourn employs the standard plot devices of the genre – things like evil-world-conqueror-with-no-redeeming-qualities, hero-who-has-lost-everything-now-determined-for-revenge, and mysterious-magical-entity-helping-guide-hero-for-unknown-reason. Here the “bad guy” is one Mordath, who was killed in the past by a god-like figure named Ayden, but who has now been resurrected and has unleashed unending war and slaughter on the five lands. Opposing this would-be conqueror is a woman archer named Arwyn (I have no idea where the writer got this fantasy name from, do you?) who has her life ripped apart when her city and her family are destroyed by Mordath’s rampaging armies. Thereafter, our beautiful heroine determines to kill Mordath no matter the cost, and so she sets out with her loyal dog Kreeg to do just that.
Along her way to vengeance, Arwyn finds an unlooked for and unlikely partner in the famed one-eyed archer Gareth, who is basically Han Solo with an eyepatch and bow. Together, the two companions and their faithful dog stumble from one intense action scene to another. They fight. They run. They kill. They are almost killed. And the whole time, they continue to look like super models stepping off the page of a fashion magazine. But the one thing that they do not do is kill Mordath in this collection, and that is because of something I like to call the epic quest.
EPIC QUEST WARNING! EPIC QUEST WARNING! EPIC QUEST WARNING!
Oh yes, as our two would-be saviors of the five lands bumble their way toward vengeance at any cost, they find themselves saved from certain death by a mysterious sorceress named Neven, and it is she, who in her fantastically obtuse way, explains to Arwyn that she must set forth on an epic quest to recover the pieces of a legendary arrow of Ayden. Only when these pieces are reunited can Mordath be killed. And thus, the ongoing plot line of the comic series is established.
As for the art in this collection, I am somewhat torn in my appreciation for it. On one hand, it is filled with great eye-candy artwork by Greg Land that really pops off the page when you are reading and is filled with cheesecake image after cheesecake image. However, that beautiful artwork is also full of Greg Land’s normal problems of drawing everyone as a super model, having a limited number of male and female models for his characters, and struggling to portray character movement on the page. To further illustrate what I mean, let me point out a few specific details of the art in this collection.
1) Gareth and Arwyn are stunningly beautiful; both of them could have walked off a design show catwalk. Even when they are grieving for dead family, chained in a dungeon, or crawling through sewage, both of them do not have a hair out of place on their gorgeous heads. While that is the norm for a lot of comics, it is so bad in this collection that the character’s impeccable looks make the story unbelievable, because their expressions and poses do not mimic the narrative. I mean, how can Arwyn be posing like she is on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover when she is grieving over a dead child?
2) Many times while reading Sojourn, I had to remind myself that this comic was not The Uncanny X-Men, because Gareth looks amazingly like Scott Summers (Cyclops) from Land’s run there and Arwyn is the twin sister of Emma Frost. Who knew Sojourn was an alternate Marvel world?
3) During fights, Arwyn looks like she is posing for a photo shoot rather than actually drawing her bow or punching an enemy. I’m all for cheesecake pictures in comics, but once again, Land takes this to the extreme in my mind.
After reading Sojourn Vol. 1: From the Ashes, all I can say is that – even with its issues – it was a fun, action adventure comic. Honestly, it is best described as a bubble gum version of the Lord of the Rings movies with action galore, sappy morality, and a few laughs. When you add in a couple of likeable heroes in Arwyn and Gareth, a despicable villain to hate in Mordath plus a loyal dog, you have a paperback version of your latest Hollywood blockbuster action film. Well worth the price of a used copy!
Back in the day, there was a comic publisher that decided to take on the Big Two (DC and Marvel) by doing something different. Headed by the creative team of Barbara Kesel, Mark Waid and Ron Marz, CrossGen comics began publishing stories based not on superheroes but non-traditional comic fare, such as fantasy (Mystic), science fiction (Crux), Victorian detective (Ruse), and samurai action adventure (The Path). Not only that, but CrossGen became one of the first comic publishers to sell subscription to their comics on the internet, allowing subscribers to view all CrossGen’s titles through their web browser. Unfortunately, after some initial success, CrossGen went bankrupt a few years later, but it is easy to enjoy these old series through some really nice trade paperbacks like Sojourn Vol. 1: From the Ashes, which reprints the Sojourn Prequel and issues #1-6.
This epic fantasy series is set in the Five Lands of the planet Quin, which are inhabited by different races. Like most classical fantasy tales, Sojourn employs the standard plot devices of the genre – things like evil-world-conqueror-with-no-redeeming-qualities, hero-who-has-lost-everything-now-determined-for-revenge, and mysterious-magical-entity-helping-guide-hero-for-unknown-reason. Here the “bad guy” is one Mordath, who was killed in the past by a god-like figure named Ayden, but who has now been resurrected and has unleashed unending war and slaughter on the five lands. Opposing this would-be conqueror is a woman archer named Arwyn (I have no idea where the writer got this fantasy name from, do you?) who has her life ripped apart when her city and her family are destroyed by Mordath’s rampaging armies. Thereafter, our beautiful heroine determines to kill Mordath no matter the cost, and so she sets out with her loyal dog Kreeg to do just that.
Along her way to vengeance, Arwyn finds an unlooked for and unlikely partner in the famed one-eyed archer Gareth, who is basically Han Solo with an eyepatch and bow. Together, the two companions and their faithful dog stumble from one intense action scene to another. They fight. They run. They kill. They are almost killed. And the whole time, they continue to look like super models stepping off the page of a fashion magazine. But the one thing that they do not do is kill Mordath in this collection, and that is because of something I like to call the epic quest.
EPIC QUEST WARNING! EPIC QUEST WARNING! EPIC QUEST WARNING!
Oh yes, as our two would-be saviors of the five lands bumble their way toward vengeance at any cost, they find themselves saved from certain death by a mysterious sorceress named Neven, and it is she, who in her fantastically obtuse way, explains to Arwyn that she must set forth on an epic quest to recover the pieces of a legendary arrow of Ayden. Only when these pieces are reunited can Mordath be killed. And thus, the ongoing plot line of the comic series is established.
As for the art in this collection, I am somewhat torn in my appreciation for it. On one hand, it is filled with great eye-candy artwork by Greg Land that really pops off the page when you are reading and is filled with cheesecake image after cheesecake image. However, that beautiful artwork is also full of Greg Land’s normal problems of drawing everyone as a super model, having a limited number of male and female models for his characters, and struggling to portray character movement on the page. To further illustrate what I mean, let me point out a few specific details of the art in this collection.
1) Gareth and Arwyn are stunningly beautiful; both of them could have walked off a design show catwalk. Even when they are grieving for dead family, chained in a dungeon, or crawling through sewage, both of them do not have a hair out of place on their gorgeous heads. While that is the norm for a lot of comics, it is so bad in this collection that the character’s impeccable looks make the story unbelievable, because their expressions and poses do not mimic the narrative. I mean, how can Arwyn be posing like she is on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover when she is grieving over a dead child?
2) Many times while reading Sojourn, I had to remind myself that this comic was not The Uncanny X-Men, because Gareth looks amazingly like Scott Summers (Cyclops) from Land’s run there and Arwyn is the twin sister of Emma Frost. Who knew Sojourn was an alternate Marvel world?
3) During fights, Arwyn looks like she is posing for a photo shoot rather than actually drawing her bow or punching an enemy. I’m all for cheesecake pictures in comics, but once again, Land takes this to the extreme in my mind.
After reading Sojourn Vol. 1: From the Ashes, all I can say is that – even with its issues – it was a fun, action adventure comic. Honestly, it is best described as a bubble gum version of the Lord of the Rings movies with action galore, sappy morality, and a few laughs. When you add in a couple of likeable heroes in Arwyn and Gareth, a despicable villain to hate in Mordath plus a loyal dog, you have a paperback version of your latest Hollywood blockbuster action film. Well worth the price of a used copy!
August 13, 2018
Cool story. Excellent art. Old school sword and sorcery fantasy.
April 10, 2025
Solid setup to an interesting fantasy comic, Land’s art is fantastic.
November 17, 2017
Another CrossGen masterpiece.
May 13, 2016
This book is what I was hoping
Chosen--Graphic Novel: The Lost Books Series
would be: a fantasy action-adventure story with lively heroes and intelligent dialogue. The graphic novel medium is ripe for this kind of quest tale, and it's good to see that someone is doing it well.
While the story is fairly standard, the characters are top-notch and the action is fluid. But the crowning jewel in this book is the art. The only words I can think of to praise the artwork sound like underwhelming cliches (brilliant, beautiful, dazzling, incredible, UH-MAY-ZING), but they are all true. I can't rest until I hold the next installment... I may have to venture out and purchase it instead of waiting for the library.
While the story is fairly standard, the characters are top-notch and the action is fluid. But the crowning jewel in this book is the art. The only words I can think of to praise the artwork sound like underwhelming cliches (brilliant, beautiful, dazzling, incredible, UH-MAY-ZING), but they are all true. I can't rest until I hold the next installment... I may have to venture out and purchase it instead of waiting for the library.
October 6, 2014
This is a Standard Generic Fantasy Adventure, using the common sorts of tropes. Think of it like Willow but with a buxom, willowy blonde instead of our plucky halfling hero. There's one mystery in there that's intriguing enough, but the rest of the "plot" is pretty shallow. The art is fun, but the two main characters, Arwen Arwyn, and Han Solo (I don't remember his name- eyepatch dude) are perfectly dressed and clean through their adventures. That kind of small detail is enough to keep the reading of the book from being a more immersive experience. Also, enough with the sexy poses. No one fights like that.
January 4, 2021
I continue to read graphic novels as part of keeping up with the genre of work I do....
Still another sword and sorcery tale that's been recorded in every fashion imagined. Nothing new and nothing interesting.
The artwork is terribly executed and clearly working from photographs and, typical of recent contemporary comic books, style is absent as all appears modeled or traced from photographs.
Something damned at the Kubert School over and over is the fashion model pose. That is a constant throughout this book. A lousy bunch of poorly rendered glamour shots of a supposed warrior drawing lots of blood. Storytelling is forgotten. Lighting is all over the place. What a mess!
The obsessive digital coloring muddies whatever illustration skill might exist from the penciler.
Will there be evidence of skill and style ever again in comics? This lazy, uneducated approach is an insult to those that built the industry.
Bottom line: i don't recommend this book. 2 out of ten points.
Still another sword and sorcery tale that's been recorded in every fashion imagined. Nothing new and nothing interesting.
The artwork is terribly executed and clearly working from photographs and, typical of recent contemporary comic books, style is absent as all appears modeled or traced from photographs.
Something damned at the Kubert School over and over is the fashion model pose. That is a constant throughout this book. A lousy bunch of poorly rendered glamour shots of a supposed warrior drawing lots of blood. Storytelling is forgotten. Lighting is all over the place. What a mess!
The obsessive digital coloring muddies whatever illustration skill might exist from the penciler.
Will there be evidence of skill and style ever again in comics? This lazy, uneducated approach is an insult to those that built the industry.
Bottom line: i don't recommend this book. 2 out of ten points.
July 10, 2025
This book is filled with amazing art by Greg Land but to an experienced reader the story feels like a greatest-fantasy-plot-point review, hitting many fantasy tropes but failing to bring a fresh spin to the procedings. Thankfully, there is lots of great art along the way.
Finally, toward the end of the book, the story starts to take on its own identity and so I am hopeful that the next volume will more fully flesh out the world in which the story exists and make it an intriguing and unique entity.
Finally, toward the end of the book, the story starts to take on its own identity and so I am hopeful that the next volume will more fully flesh out the world in which the story exists and make it an intriguing and unique entity.
January 28, 2018
Brainless fantasy high jinks. Some nice visuals don't compensate for weak writing and ho hum story.
May 27, 2018
Pretty standard fantasy fare so far, in terms of story--though I'm not sure I agree the many LotR comparisons are entirely fitting--but it's solidly done.
May 18, 2020
Decent sword and sorcery comic, good enough for me to want to go on to Volume 2
August 5, 2022
Well, Marz stopped writing the story and Land left the art duties after The Thief’s Tale. And of course, the quality kept going down. And… we’re left with an unfinished story. Disappointed.
October 25, 2025
Rather derivative but entertaining.
March 21, 2017
There's generic fantasy, and then there's Sojourn: From the Ashes, which is so aggressively generic and bland that it can only be the result of a corporate decree and written by an out of touch committee. The names (elven exotic), plot (generic chosen one to fight generic evil), the character design (buxom blonde in tight clothes). There was no muse or passion behind this.
It is possibly the worst book I've read this year.
It is possibly the worst book I've read this year.
October 30, 2013
Reprints Sojourn Prequel and Sojourn #1-6 (July 2001-January 2002). Mordath has returned to life and taken over the Five Lands of Quin. In the wake of his war, a woman named Arwyn finds her home destroyed and family killed. Arwyn seeks vengeance with her dog Kreeg and an unlikely ally in a thief named Gareth. Unfortunately, Mordath is a Sigil-Bearer and channeling the power of the First. Arwyn’s only chance is a mysterious woman named Neven and finding the pieces of Mordath’s original killer Ayden.
Written by Ron Marz and illustrated by Greg Land, Sojourn 1: From the Ashes reprints the first issues of the CrossGen series. The comic was one of CrossGen’s bestselling titles but ended after Sojourn #34 due to CrossGen’s bankruptcy. The first volume was printed both in a standard and digest format.
Sojourn was a fun comic. The series was a great action adventure that really kept moving with interesting characters and great art by Greg Land. Marvel has gained the rights to some of the CrossGen titles, but as of now nothing has been done with Sojourn.
Sojourn is aided by some great storytelling in the vein of Lord of the Rings and other big fantasy titles. The action is big and bold and has a big-screen feel. The series is a bit marred by being forced into the CrossGen universe with the Sigil and the First ties. Here, Mordath is the Sigil-Bearer, and it is a bit interesting that on the world that the Sigil-Bearer appears to only be solely a villain.
The character of Arwyn is likeable and Mordath is developing as a good villain in this series. The swashbuckling Gareth is written as a Han Solo type and you always have to love a loyal dog like Kreeg (and hope that he doesn't become the unlucky animal victim). The characters of the comic are aided by the great art.
I love Greg Land’s art and the book is perfectly colored by Caesar Rodriguez. The images just pop off the page and bring life to the characters. The art seems to be a bit intentionally cheesecake with scenes like Arwyn in chains and coming out of the water, but it is supposed to be very classic fantasy-style art since that is the theme of comic.
Of all of CrossGen’s titles, I wish that with the return of Sigil and Ruse that Sojourn might either be relaunched or revisited. The series was fun, snappy action, but also loaded with great eye-candy art. Sojourn 1: From the Ashes was followed by Sojourn 2: The Dragon’s Tale.
Written by Ron Marz and illustrated by Greg Land, Sojourn 1: From the Ashes reprints the first issues of the CrossGen series. The comic was one of CrossGen’s bestselling titles but ended after Sojourn #34 due to CrossGen’s bankruptcy. The first volume was printed both in a standard and digest format.
Sojourn was a fun comic. The series was a great action adventure that really kept moving with interesting characters and great art by Greg Land. Marvel has gained the rights to some of the CrossGen titles, but as of now nothing has been done with Sojourn.
Sojourn is aided by some great storytelling in the vein of Lord of the Rings and other big fantasy titles. The action is big and bold and has a big-screen feel. The series is a bit marred by being forced into the CrossGen universe with the Sigil and the First ties. Here, Mordath is the Sigil-Bearer, and it is a bit interesting that on the world that the Sigil-Bearer appears to only be solely a villain.
The character of Arwyn is likeable and Mordath is developing as a good villain in this series. The swashbuckling Gareth is written as a Han Solo type and you always have to love a loyal dog like Kreeg (and hope that he doesn't become the unlucky animal victim). The characters of the comic are aided by the great art.
I love Greg Land’s art and the book is perfectly colored by Caesar Rodriguez. The images just pop off the page and bring life to the characters. The art seems to be a bit intentionally cheesecake with scenes like Arwyn in chains and coming out of the water, but it is supposed to be very classic fantasy-style art since that is the theme of comic.
Of all of CrossGen’s titles, I wish that with the return of Sigil and Ruse that Sojourn might either be relaunched or revisited. The series was fun, snappy action, but also loaded with great eye-candy art. Sojourn 1: From the Ashes was followed by Sojourn 2: The Dragon’s Tale.
November 2, 2008
I may have missed the hey-day of CrossGen comics – that mid-90s independent comic book publisher that aimed to take a bite out of the big two, DC and Marvel, but bit it financially just a few short years ago – but I am enjoying going back and enjoying the runs of some of their most popular titles, conveniently available in handy trade paperbacks.
Sojourn does for the fantasy genre what Ruse does for the Victorian detective and El Cazador for the sea-faring days of piracy. Set in a mythical world of five lands, Sojourn employs many of the same plot-devices inimical to the fantasy genre: the world-conqueror hell-bent on evil, as well as the hero who has lost everything. But in this latter case -- substitute a seriously babe-licious “heroine” for “hero” -- Sojourn stands out as an easily seductive read.
The journey of Arwyn – I guess Marz could not, for the life of him, come up with a more original name – begins when her family is brutally killed by the minions of the warlord Mordath. And, in due course, she partners up with the famed archer and dashing rogue Gareth and the mysterious sorceress Neven. And in typical Greg Land style, our band of heroes are depicted as major hotties. (Although I’m an admirer of Land, I will freely admit that Gareth and Arwyn look way too much like Scott and Emma from his current art duties on Uncanny X-Men. Land seems to have a very limited palette of models for his women and men alike.)
By the end of this first volume, which collects issues one through six as well as the one-shot prequel, I was chomping at the bit for more. Thank goodness CrossGen did not deign to litter the comic book market with more super-heroic exploits, and instead offered up some goodies in several underserved genres. Which just goes to show: Diversity is a good thing.
Sojourn does for the fantasy genre what Ruse does for the Victorian detective and El Cazador for the sea-faring days of piracy. Set in a mythical world of five lands, Sojourn employs many of the same plot-devices inimical to the fantasy genre: the world-conqueror hell-bent on evil, as well as the hero who has lost everything. But in this latter case -- substitute a seriously babe-licious “heroine” for “hero” -- Sojourn stands out as an easily seductive read.
The journey of Arwyn – I guess Marz could not, for the life of him, come up with a more original name – begins when her family is brutally killed by the minions of the warlord Mordath. And, in due course, she partners up with the famed archer and dashing rogue Gareth and the mysterious sorceress Neven. And in typical Greg Land style, our band of heroes are depicted as major hotties. (Although I’m an admirer of Land, I will freely admit that Gareth and Arwyn look way too much like Scott and Emma from his current art duties on Uncanny X-Men. Land seems to have a very limited palette of models for his women and men alike.)
By the end of this first volume, which collects issues one through six as well as the one-shot prequel, I was chomping at the bit for more. Thank goodness CrossGen did not deign to litter the comic book market with more super-heroic exploits, and instead offered up some goodies in several underserved genres. Which just goes to show: Diversity is a good thing.
August 17, 2024
I can't really remember why Ron Marz doesn't get more love from comic book fandom. In the late 80s and through the 90s, he wrote the Silver Surfer ongoing title, resurrecting Thanos, offering new insights into the world-devouring Galactus, and making the hero a little less cold and more heroic than he had been presented by many (but not all) previous creative teams.
Anyway, in Sojourn, Marz goes even further. Using the Heroic Journey wheel, Arwyn embarks on a quest for vengeance in her family's name, but through the guide of Gareth, the foundations of her quest are immediately defamiliarized from the rampage movies of Charles Bronson and Punisher-esque vigilantes and shown as someone whose identity and sense of identity was completely defined by her past. Each page is a testament to an artfully written script.
I have a lot of friends who think all of Greg Land's art is completely done by computer, but no. I remember seeing his work on Nightwing and Birds of Prey early in his career and the art in Sojourn is truly a testament to his growth as an artist. The trade features a back-up feature about his style, and it is a good read if you are so inclined for such "behind the scenes" pieces.
I am grateful to have found the Traveler Edition of this trade and recommend it to fans of comics and high fantasy alike.
Anyway, in Sojourn, Marz goes even further. Using the Heroic Journey wheel, Arwyn embarks on a quest for vengeance in her family's name, but through the guide of Gareth, the foundations of her quest are immediately defamiliarized from the rampage movies of Charles Bronson and Punisher-esque vigilantes and shown as someone whose identity and sense of identity was completely defined by her past. Each page is a testament to an artfully written script.
I have a lot of friends who think all of Greg Land's art is completely done by computer, but no. I remember seeing his work on Nightwing and Birds of Prey early in his career and the art in Sojourn is truly a testament to his growth as an artist. The trade features a back-up feature about his style, and it is a good read if you are so inclined for such "behind the scenes" pieces.
I am grateful to have found the Traveler Edition of this trade and recommend it to fans of comics and high fantasy alike.
September 26, 2019
Basic Plot: Evil Mordath has returned and Arwyn seeks vengeance for the destruction he wreaks.
This was probably my favorite of all of the CrossGen books that were put out in the early 2000s. Arwyn is completely BA as a character. Her sidekick character is a lot of fun, and the two of them work well together. Like other CrossGen books, the art is absolutely beautiful and the story is well-developed. I really enjoyed the fantasy world created by Marz here.
We have a classic fantasy world here, with a classic fantasy quest. Evil bad guy does evil bad guy things! Find the McGuffin! Seek to kill the bad guy! Mysterious magic person! Cute doggy! This book is just the beginning of the quest, really, and the whole thing is great.
This was probably my favorite of all of the CrossGen books that were put out in the early 2000s. Arwyn is completely BA as a character. Her sidekick character is a lot of fun, and the two of them work well together. Like other CrossGen books, the art is absolutely beautiful and the story is well-developed. I really enjoyed the fantasy world created by Marz here.
We have a classic fantasy world here, with a classic fantasy quest. Evil bad guy does evil bad guy things! Find the McGuffin! Seek to kill the bad guy! Mysterious magic person! Cute doggy! This book is just the beginning of the quest, really, and the whole thing is great.
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May 28, 2014The amount of people giving this a 3 is ridiculous. This deserves at least a 4. This is the by far the best fantasy comic I have ever read. Sojourn get so many things right that other "fantasy" books don't. The story is really good, and It gives the comic a chance to show off its world. No, not some copy and paste "lord of the rings" world, but a world that takes time to be carefully created. The characters are three dimensional, and not just some archetypes filling out some archetype roles that must be in every fantasy books( I'm looking at you witcher). The artwork is a very nice thin line, pseudo realistic look work some of the best I've seen other than daredevil. I recommend this to EVERYONE.
May 19, 2012
I didn't much care for this book. The story is intriguing enough, but the characters don't interest me, and I hated (absolutely hated) the fact that even when the protagonist (can't remember her name) was grieving over her dead baby, she looked like she was having an orgasm. That is pretty much the way she always looked - like she was repeatedly drawn from a porn magazine.
It really turned me off trying very many graphic novels.
It really turned me off trying very many graphic novels.
October 18, 2015
The first volume of Sojourn collects the prequel double issue and issues #1-6.
The story is very simple, without any real twists or turns, and is by no way original, it is basically just another fantasy story.
The art and the coloring are what shines in this collection, especially great are the flashback sepia panels.
All in all, this is a quick and light read with great looking art.
The story is very simple, without any real twists or turns, and is by no way original, it is basically just another fantasy story.
The art and the coloring are what shines in this collection, especially great are the flashback sepia panels.
All in all, this is a quick and light read with great looking art.
September 11, 2016
While I'll probably read the other two compilations I have in my possession, I wouldn't actually purchase the series based on this first one. The story is derivative of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the writing is somewhat clunky, and while the art is quite good, the characters are definitely more in the Boris Vallejo realm than suits my taste.
July 18, 2015
The other Crossgen comic I really enjoyed. Fantasy isn't don much in comics, and this was a great attempt. The art by Greg Land is stunning. I know Land has become something of s punchline for his recent work, but at this stage in his career, he work was remarkable.
August 9, 2016
Fantasy with all its cliches (magic, mysterious women characters talking mysteriously, goblins) ain't my first choice of reading material. But I quite enjoyed this one. Fast, action packed, slick art and a dog. Nice.
August 11, 2012
Modern comic books like this make me want to reread my whole Tintin collection, and all my Asterix's and even everything from the Vandersteen studio's. Nice graphical work though.
January 29, 2024
It's a solid fantasy comic. A good revenge quest. Unfortunat that they weren't able to finish it the series. It's hard to get a hold of, but it was worth collecting.
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