Tellos: Relunctant Heroes
Only six issues long, I found this trade in my local library. The story begins with a street rat, a young boy named Jarek, and his companion, a man-tiger anmed Koj, and a small introduction in the world they live in as they are being chased by ninja frogs.
Basically, the world they live in is a huge place of many different realms fused together, were everything and anyone can basically exist. There is a plane named Torrent, that rains all the time, and a plane that is a huge desert. The story deals with Jarek, stumbling upon an iten that mysteriously summons a genie that only protects him, which causes him to throw himself into danger all the time to save his friends. He is joined up by a female pirate, her Ulfen (elf) boyfriend, and a thiefing mychevious fox. At the end of the frst (and only that I know of) issues, the boy gets stabbed in the eye by a monk, and someone dies.
It's an engaging read, in an interesting world, but the story lacks any punch. It fails to make the reader ever doubt they are ever in danger, and the death at the end is shallow, and seems to me, merely a last ditched effort by the writers to get readers.
Hopefully, other stories surface based on this world, as it was a very intriguing place. The art is breathtaking though.
