Guilded Age Volume One

Guilded Age #1

by T. Campbell, Erica Henderson, Phil Kahn

This is it-- the full-scale FIRST VOLUME of the mind-blowing fantasy epic! All pages by T Campbell, Phil Kahn and Erica Henderson, including a special NEW STORY from Byron the Berserker's early days, which could only be called "Entitlement!" This book, the product of more than a year of hard labor, is a thing of beauty. Enhance your life with it.

Genres: Fantasy, Webcomic, Comics

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Spens (Sphynx Reads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

For my first ever webcomic, this was pretty fun. The timeline and pacing can be a little confusing at times but overall, great episodic adventure stories with lovable characters.

[Nina Johanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

For me this was a fun nostalgic reread of a webcomic that I originally read as it was coming out. I don't think everything as aged as well, but with 50 chapters spread out over nearly 10 years that is to be expected. It kinda starts out as referential humor about the silly stuff in certain fantasy mmorpgs, but then it twists to be a kind of crossover of the matrix and WoW. The more serious tone it tries to strike in those later chapters gets kinda undercut by the internet humor of the early chapters sticking around, but maybe that is me wishing a silly internet comic to be more than it is.

[Arminzerella · Rating 2 out of 5]

A group of adventurers comes together to rescue some children who were abducted by pirates. As they search for the children, their individual stories are told and bonds between them are forged.

Was given this to read by a friend of mine who later said he didn't care for it. What?! Why are you lending me things you don't like? It took me a little while to get into this one. There were some jumps back and forth in time which caused a few hiccups for me. Not the most inspiring comic of its kind, but not terrible, either. Of the characters, I liked the wood elf best. Follow the webcomic here: http://guildedage.net/

[Lissibith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is just chock full of both good and bad. I liked the characters quite a lot, but the jumping-all-over-the-place timeline left me confused on multiple occasions as to what was going on with the plot. I liked the art, but there were times it left me just confused about what was going on during a given sequence. I enjoyed the anachronistic chatter from some of them, but it was so divested from the eye-wink sort of unreality of series like RPGWorld, Adventurers or Order of the stick that it felt out of place.

So... no great, not bad. Prolly worth checking out online for free to see if picking up the physical book is worth it to you though.

[May · Rating 4 out of 5]

So fun!

[James Bowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly interesting set of characters (I particularly like the science-oriented wood elf), but the non-linear arrangement of the chapters makes it harder to get into this than I'd like. I might be fonder of subsequent volumes, now that I know the characters fairly well... (B+)