Sojourn V. 5: A Sorcerer's Tale

Sojourn #issues #25-30

by Ian Edginton, Greg Land

From the burning desert sands to the wild ocean seas, Arwyn and her fellow travelers journey around the fantastic five lands.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics

172 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2004

About the author

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.

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Reviews

[Peyton · Rating 3 out of 5]

At last, the Sojourn series breaks out of it's formulaic mold. This entry is notable for its rather random--but still exciting--events. From the desert to the ocean to an island of dangerously beautiful women, The Sorcerer's Tale flings our heroes far and wide.

I particularly enjoyed the depth added to Bohr's character, but the out-of-the-blue introduction of Pallias and Dodona was jarring. Also, the heretofore dazzling artwork takes a bizarre and unwelcome downgrade between chapters 5 and 6. Hopefully it will be back to form for volume 6.

[Al Berry · Rating 2 out of 5]

In this book Eddington can’t pace well, doesn’t develop characters well, throws out of nowhere plot points, a shame cause it had been an interesting fantasy tale up until this point. Art remains fantastic.

[Adrian Bloxham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent comic

[Comicland · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.