Sojourn v. 4: The Thief's Tale

Sojourn #issues #19-24

by Ron Marz, Greg Land (Illustrator), Justin Ponsor (Illustrator)

The undead warlord Mordath rules the Five Lands with a fist of iron... and sorcery most foul. Fierce and beautiful, Arwyn the archer lost her family to Mordath's unstoppable troll armies. Now Arwyn journeys in search of a mythic hero's arrow of power -- the one weapon that can forever end Mordath's reign of fire Arwyn's quest takes her deep into the desert as she searches for the next of the Five Fragments. But as Arwyn and her troll pursuers race toward the Fragment, it might well end up in the hands of a common thief who was once Gareth's lover.

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

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Marz 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.

Reviews

[Al Berry · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last arc written by Marz and it’s still solid fantasy, Lands art continues to be great. After this Ian Eddington takes over and I’m just not as much of a fan of the direction that he takes the writing.

[Adrian Bloxham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still worth reading, enjoyable and fun

[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.

[Fizzgig76 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reprints Sojourn #19-24. A look into Arwyn's life before Mordath and Arwyn's quest for the fragments continues to the desert. Sojourn is a strong Crossgen series, but very little happens in this stretch of the series. The flash back issue is interesting and if the series had gone on for longer it would have been nice to see other flashbacks.

[Peyton · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the addition of the dynamic Cass, but Arwyn's personality slides a bit into "unlikeable" terrirory in this episode. The prologue--recounting the adventure that first bound Arwyn to her now-deceased husband--is excellent, but the rest of the story is a little slap-dash.

And I know I sound like a broken record, but the art is, again, fantastic.