Thieves' World: Graphics Novel 5

Thieves' World: Graphics Novel #5

by Robert Lynn Asprin (Editor), Tim Sale (Illustrator)

The Rankan Emperor appoints his brother-in-law as the new military governor of Sanctuary

Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Comics

70 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Robert (Lynn) Asprin was born in 1946. While he wrote some stand alone novels such as The Cold Cash War, Tambu, and The Bug Wars and also the Duncan & Mallory Illustrated stories, Bob is best known for his series fantasy, such as the Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve, the Phule's Company novels, and the Time Scout novels written with Linda Evans. He also edited the groundbreaking Thieves' World anthology series with Lynn Abbey. Other collaborations include License Invoked (set in the French Quarter of New Orleans) and several Myth Adventures novels, all written with Jody Lynn Nye.

Bob's final solo work was a contemporary fantasy series called Dragons, again set in New Orleans.

Bob passed away suddenly on May 22, 2008. He is survived by his daughter and son, his mother and his sister.

Reviews

[Brian Rogers · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is pretty solid stuff. The main reason for owning these is seeing how well Tim Sale's artwork captures the Thieves World milieu, and Lynn Abbey's weaving of the several stories into a single narrative. Sometimes it works, sometimes it works really well. This is one of the "works" volumes.

Tim Sale's early artwork is so visceral and raw. It's easy to see how his style evolved into what he later brought to the various Batman titles, but I prefer him here.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great!