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TwoKinds #2
TWOKINDS VOL. 2
The popular long-running fantasy webcomic collected into beautiful books!
The unlikely trio - Trace, a human ex-Templar; Flora, a former slave; and Keith, a banished warrior - continue to travel towards the Basitin homeland. However, their journey brings them dangerously close to the bestial Keidran's territory, and new challenges arise to break the three apart. Includes exclusive-to-print pages not available online!
The unlikely trio - Trace, a human ex-Templar; Flora, a former slave; and Keith, a banished warrior - continue to travel towards the Basitin homeland. However, their journey brings them dangerously close to the bestial Keidran's territory, and new challenges arise to break the three apart. Includes exclusive-to-print pages not available online!
160 pages, Paperback
Published May 24, 2022
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About the author
Thomas Fischbach
9 books14 followersThomas Fischbach is a Korean-American cartoonist who has been drawing since he was a teenager. He was inspired to create Twokinds after having experienced racial discrimination from kids at his school, who were predominently white. The Twokinds webcomic debuted online in October of 2003, and continues running today to the delight of its large and devoted readership. Fun Fact: Tom is the brother of YouTube superstar Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach, and has appeared in some of his videos in the past.
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December 8, 2023
This is the best book series I've read so far. I rate this a 5 out of 5 and really reccomend it.
November 5, 2025
I've been following twokinds off and on probably since near to its beginning (sometimes I'll put it aside and let a few months of updates online build up before I binge them), and comparing its early times to its present, it has definitely found its tone more firmly, and learned the subtle art of balance. I don't want to say it began too ambitiously, but for a comic that seems to have 'the problems of racism' as its very central heart, it is an intensely light and fluffy thing. Characters who wish to vengefully kill one another, then fail to do so, will very quickly become friends. Trace Legacy (the sort of name I'm sure, twenty years later, Fischbach wishes could be changed), sure does have a lot of jovial, happy-go-lucky friends from his past, considering he was (before losing his memory), the big bad evil racial-purity wizard of the world. Of course racists have friends, and in the real world don't SEEM like members of the injustice league, but Tracy used to be a guy who sucked the life out of the earth to power his evil doom-towers he was building to eradicate all keidran. I just don't see him as the kind of guy who used to hang out with a whacky band of anime stereotypes, so much as I'd envision some sort of Raistlin Majere-ish upbringing, scowling from library corners as he plots his superiority over the world. It is explained eventually that he USED to be pretty okay, but then when Keidran killed his wife he turned to 'dark magic' which drove him crazy and made him evil and racist, but that's almost a worse explanation.
I think ultimately this highlights my major problem with Twokinds, which is the same problem I have with a lot of anime: I don't like the 'main character'. I don't care for Trace's naively bland "I forgot my past" persona, I don't like the simplicity of his "I was made racist by evil magic" past, and I hate the trope of a character who becomes all-powerful when they lose emotional control, but that power also makes them kind of EVIL. I find Trace boring at best, and obnoxious at worst.
...Yet, the other character have enough going on to make up for Trace's lack of a personality, such as Natani and Keith, who are probably my two favorites. Keith's bigotry (compared to Trace's at least) is much more nuanced, and the exploration of his past is interesting. Natani likewise has a lot of things to work through, and I rather like a transgender character whose entire personality isn't defined by external transphobia from others (not to mention that it was much more common in webcomics to see transwomen, with transmen often failing to exist, or just being presented as stereotypical over-compensating macho rage-machines). In this fantasy world no one seems to care about that kind of thing too much, and Natani's only stumbling block has been his own internal confusion.
Natani, Keith, and others, fortunately have enough going on to constantly crowd Trace off the screen. The phantom of Trace's main-characterness still floats about and haunted the comic sometimes, but I'm never sorry when we have many hundreds of pages that don't involve him at all, and characters have to work out things on their own without Trace having a breakdown and pulling out his all-powerful magic to solve a problem.
I think ultimately this highlights my major problem with Twokinds, which is the same problem I have with a lot of anime: I don't like the 'main character'. I don't care for Trace's naively bland "I forgot my past" persona, I don't like the simplicity of his "I was made racist by evil magic" past, and I hate the trope of a character who becomes all-powerful when they lose emotional control, but that power also makes them kind of EVIL. I find Trace boring at best, and obnoxious at worst.
...Yet, the other character have enough going on to make up for Trace's lack of a personality, such as Natani and Keith, who are probably my two favorites. Keith's bigotry (compared to Trace's at least) is much more nuanced, and the exploration of his past is interesting. Natani likewise has a lot of things to work through, and I rather like a transgender character whose entire personality isn't defined by external transphobia from others (not to mention that it was much more common in webcomics to see transwomen, with transmen often failing to exist, or just being presented as stereotypical over-compensating macho rage-machines). In this fantasy world no one seems to care about that kind of thing too much, and Natani's only stumbling block has been his own internal confusion.
Natani, Keith, and others, fortunately have enough going on to constantly crowd Trace off the screen. The phantom of Trace's main-characterness still floats about and haunted the comic sometimes, but I'm never sorry when we have many hundreds of pages that don't involve him at all, and characters have to work out things on their own without Trace having a breakdown and pulling out his all-powerful magic to solve a problem.
December 28, 2023
Oh yeah, this story just got better and better!
December 21, 2017
it is wonderful, just like the first book. I love this book and hope they continue. I love them all so far
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