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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
I love critical role! Being able to read more about the characters pasts is awesome! The art style is amazing and the story is fun to read!
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm fairly new to the Critical Role fandom and I haven't finished the Mighty Nein campaign yet, but I had to read this if only for the beautiful artwork. I'm a bit disappointed in the lack of depth, as it is supposed to be an origin story, but I liked that it was cute and heartwarming.
As a person who watch Critical Role Campaign 2 from start to finish this was a nice visual layer to the information given during the actual campaigns. Everyone who worked on this comic this a wonderful job. I could tell is was Laura Bailey's vision of Jester all the way through. This was such a fun read as a Jester lover during the campaign. The character designs were beautiful and the small detail were great to see given that unless you are looking at the character art on a form of social media the visuals of the character in campaign 2 are up to your mind to put together. Marion looked gorgeous and Jester was so cute and funny. I especially loved the Travelers design. Definitely going to finish the rest of the Might Nein's origin comics. I hope they do this for Bells Hells as well, can't wait.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I'm sort of confused that this volume has a lower average score than the Caleb one. You could nitpick some lore stuff with this one I guess (does Marion think the Traveler is a real boy or an imaginary friend? I don't know, and it also seems, not very important!) but this one does everything that I wish the other had. The narrower focus creates space for emotionally resonant moments and new insight to secondary characters like Bluud and Marion ...and just makes the pacing work!
I guess it could be argued that they are both the origin story as each character would write them... Caleb gives an incredibly dry, detached, pseudo-objective and overly detailed account of the facts and Jester goes "*record scratch* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got in this situation."
I guess it could be argued that they are both the origin story as each character would write them... Caleb gives an incredibly dry, detached, pseudo-objective and overly detailed account of the facts and Jester goes "*record scratch* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got in this situation."
The art is absolutely stunning! The story was fine but Jester honestly doesn’t have the most interesting background.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
I received an ARC copy of this book from Edelweiss
A must read for any Critical Role fan. I'm not sure exactly how much of this is new information and how much we already knew because my watching of the Mighty Nein arc was incredibly chaotic and sporadic but Jester is great and it's such a fun little story and the art is incredible so I think it's worth it for that alone. Also I absolutely adore the Traveler ;)
A must read for any Critical Role fan. I'm not sure exactly how much of this is new information and how much we already knew because my watching of the Mighty Nein arc was incredibly chaotic and sporadic but Jester is great and it's such a fun little story and the art is incredible so I think it's worth it for that alone. Also I absolutely adore the Traveler ;)
adventurous
funny
hopeful