If you like stories about befuddled magicians, pure-hearted heroes, hobbits and bright-eyed elves... If you're looking for a book about "the sunshine-kind of magic that dwells in all of us..."
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!
The residents of Sanctuary are spawned fromt eh dark side of fantasy's finest writers - Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Robert Lynn Asprin, Robin Bailey, John Brunner, C.J. Cherryh, Christine DeWees, David Drake, Diane Duane, Philip Jose Farmer, Joe Haldeman, Vonda McIntyre, Chris & Janet Morris, Andrew J. Offutt, Diana Paxson and A.E. Van Vogt. Under the brush of artist Tim Sale the best-selling Thieves' World anthologies enter the realm of the graphic novel. Look out!
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.
This is easily my favorite of the Thieves' World Graphics books I own, in part because the way the gods interacting with the mortals stories overlap so smoothly in this one. Great fun in a dark, mean way. Tim Sale's artwork really shines here.
As much as I may like the basic style of Sale's artwork, it lacks a certain level of distinction to which I have become accustomed and does little to help the reader understand the characters in the story.
I do appreciate that the third effort in this series attempts to tell a cohesive, interconnected story rather than a handful of disparate tales with tangential ties. However, even that falls short of providing an entertaining and engaging story.