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...hero. Actually, he's a duck, and a rather cowardly one at that. Well, he's sort of a duck, if ducks had arms and legs and wore vests. He's the central character of Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim's delightful sword and sorcery comedy series, "Dungeon," a French import, the second volume of which has just been released by NBM ($15). Imagine if the Muppets did Middle Earth and you'll have a pretty good idea of what makes "Dungeon" so charming and so wildly popular in other parts of the world...
...Volume 1 of Sfar and Trondheim's "Dungeon...
...anthropomorphic animals, such as the clan of impolite rabbits who sit around the pub all day, mixed with monsters both familiar, like orcs, and new, like the Bermaw, a cute blob of meat that will jump down your gullet and expand until you burst. It all centers around the Dungeon, a giant castle filled with traps, labyrinths, monsters and gold, run as a business to attract adventurers seeking their fortune and fame. Among its many parodies, "Dungeon" manages to satirize modern office life in its portrayal of the Dungeon Keeper as a harried CEO, forever dealing with management issues...
...Here we first meet Herbert, an inauspicious "office boy" of the Dungeon. Unable to escort a barbarian guest to the front office due to the barbarian's untimely loss of his head, Herbert decides to impersonate him rather than face punishment. This poorly thought out decision gets him the assignment to infiltrate the ranks of the "Hooded Ones," a band of tentacled, soul-eating monsters bent on taking over the castle and getting out of their self-described "tacky" and "gloomy" subterranean den. Luckily for Herbert, Marvin, the Keeper's right hand man, a ferocious, winged warrior with the head...
...Herbert gets stuck up a tree as Marvin looks on in "Dungeon...