Book of Spells

    (Double Edge, 1994)
™ and © 1994 Richard MacDougall

This amateurish mini-series offers a confusing mix of sketchy, unfinished artwork and a storyline cribbed from a variety of classic fantasy adventures like J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Bart and Masloc (an intellectual and a rogue, respectively) are time travelers who are on a quest in a nondescript ancient land peopled by the standard group of miscreants, marauders, and monsters of all races and creeds. There are demons to be fought, and of course plenty of women to be victimized and saved by the intrepid Masloc. Meanwhile, another adventurer named Peter White faces some demonic threats of his own, but he is aided by a powerful ring of life (where have we seen that before?) that will allow him to defeat evil wherever it manifests itself. Although the illustration occasionally makes it difficult to tell, there is some adult content, including excessive violence, nudity and language.
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