Kid disappears in the park one day and is never seen again. People suspect his paw done kilt him. Naw, don’t be sills – he just went to a Narnia-esque land where he became a warrior, fought monsters, and returned a fully-grown man despite only one year passing in our world! He hunting wizards now.
… uh huh. So, Birthright, Volume 1: Homecoming is every fantasy story ever conceived. The fantasyland is populated by knights, monsters, orcs, wizards, barbarians, magic and giant weapons, and writer Joshua Williamson even has the audacity to include a plot where our protagonist is The Chosen One from a Prophecy who will save them all. How stunningly generic and unoriginal!
There’s one slight twist in that the hero isn’t quite what he appears to be but it’s nowhere near enough to make me keep reading the series. Neither the writing nor the art are anything special and I was dozing off on every other page. Bland, boring, unimaginative sludge from beginning to end – don’t bother.
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