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Erfworld: Meet the Jetstones - Issue 1 of Book 2: Love Is a Battlefield
Book by Balder, Rob
Paperback
Published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Rob Balder
11 books3 followersRob Balder is the author of Erfworld. He is a full-time professional cartoonist, singer/songwriter, game designer and web entrepreneur.
Rob writes and sings comedy songs, and has recorded two CDs. The title track from Rob's first CD, "Rich Fantasy Lives" was co-written with Filk Hall of Famer Tom Smith. It won the Pegasus award for Best Filk Song of 2007. Rob's songs have often been heard on the syndicated Doctor Demento Show. In January 2006, he and six other comedy music performers founded The Funny Music Project.
In addition to Erfworld, Rob is the creator of the clip-art comic strip PartiallyClips, a clip-art comic strip started in 2001, which has appeared in more than two dozen newspapers and magazines. A book collection of the strip, "Suffering for my Clip Art: the Best of PartiallyClips, volume 1," was published in 2005.
He is the Associate Editor of Nth Degree, a popular fanzine covering genre fiction, gaming, comics, fandom and more. He writes science fiction and fantasy, including one unpublished novel and many short stories and poems.
Rob also teamed up with Pete Abrams of the webcomic Sluggy Freelance to create "Get Nifty," a stand-alone card game themed around Pete's comic. Get Nifty debuted in stores in 2006, through Blood & Cardstock Games.
Rob writes and sings comedy songs, and has recorded two CDs. The title track from Rob's first CD, "Rich Fantasy Lives" was co-written with Filk Hall of Famer Tom Smith. It won the Pegasus award for Best Filk Song of 2007. Rob's songs have often been heard on the syndicated Doctor Demento Show. In January 2006, he and six other comedy music performers founded The Funny Music Project.
In addition to Erfworld, Rob is the creator of the clip-art comic strip PartiallyClips, a clip-art comic strip started in 2001, which has appeared in more than two dozen newspapers and magazines. A book collection of the strip, "Suffering for my Clip Art: the Best of PartiallyClips, volume 1," was published in 2005.
He is the Associate Editor of Nth Degree, a popular fanzine covering genre fiction, gaming, comics, fandom and more. He writes science fiction and fantasy, including one unpublished novel and many short stories and poems.
Rob also teamed up with Pete Abrams of the webcomic Sluggy Freelance to create "Get Nifty," a stand-alone card game themed around Pete's comic. Get Nifty debuted in stores in 2006, through Blood & Cardstock Games.
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October 22, 2012
Gobwin Knob and the Jetstones are now at war and their allies are getting pulled into the skirmish. Queen Jillian's relationship with Wanda (Gobwin Knob's Croakamancer) throws a wrench (or should I say a pair of Arkenpliers?) into the battle mechanics, and it's not clear who will win the day in the end.
This comics collection is more illustrated novella than it is traditional comic. I was forewarned about this so I was sort of dreading it (mostly because I figured it would take forever to read), but it's not so bad. I tend to focus more on the wordy bits of the story when I'm reading comics, anyway, and I found it pretty palatable as a result. I got a little lost in/bogged down by the gaming mechanics/speak - as in, I have just enough familiarity with how this all works to muddle through, but it's not really my thing. So keep that in mind.
For a non-gamer reader this comic about and with deep references to rpgs and gaming was still pretty enjoyable. It wasn't as funny as the first collection and really got away from Lord Hamster/Parson Gotti's story - he's a small bit player in this one, so I didn't like it as well. I think if left to my own devices I wouldn't keep reading - but Dave keeps lending me these. ;) Vol. 3 (technically this would be Issue 2, Book 2, I guess) is glaring at me from my bookshelf right now, and I'm ignoring it.
This comics collection is more illustrated novella than it is traditional comic. I was forewarned about this so I was sort of dreading it (mostly because I figured it would take forever to read), but it's not so bad. I tend to focus more on the wordy bits of the story when I'm reading comics, anyway, and I found it pretty palatable as a result. I got a little lost in/bogged down by the gaming mechanics/speak - as in, I have just enough familiarity with how this all works to muddle through, but it's not really my thing. So keep that in mind.
For a non-gamer reader this comic about and with deep references to rpgs and gaming was still pretty enjoyable. It wasn't as funny as the first collection and really got away from Lord Hamster/Parson Gotti's story - he's a small bit player in this one, so I didn't like it as well. I think if left to my own devices I wouldn't keep reading - but Dave keeps lending me these. ;) Vol. 3 (technically this would be Issue 2, Book 2, I guess) is glaring at me from my bookshelf right now, and I'm ignoring it.
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