Drink in the Madness | The Drinking Quest Comic Review

By Nate Munson
12 years Ago

I follow Jason Anarchy on Twitter&period; For those of you who don&&num;8217&semi;t know, Jason created Drinking Quest&period; Drinking Quest is a game that combines the best things about drinking games and tabletop role-playing games&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s awesome&period; Those of you who are of legal age to consume alcohol should give it a try&period; Please drink responsibly&period; A few days ago he tweets about his new comic, based on his awesome game and he asked people to review the first issue&period; I jumped at the chance and I proudly say that I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t one bit disappointed, though I may be a bit biased given my love for high fantasy and independent books&period; Enjoy&excl; Oh, and go get the comics as soon as you can&period;&NewLine;[alert type=red ]Spoilers&excl;[/alert]&NewLine; <a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/05101752/footer-940x150&period;gif"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-62174 size-full" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/05101752/footer-940x150&period;gif" alt="Drinkign Quest Menagerie" width="940" height="150" /></a>&NewLine;The comic opens with a God of Drinking musing to himself about his day to day activities&period; Then we flash forward to a snowy field and two men talk about a magical item called a slave crown and how they want to make a killing&semi; betting on the wearer in an arena fight&period; The bearer of the slave crown in none other than Chuglox the barbarian himself&excl; Who is Chuglox you say&quest; The next scenes explain that as we flash back six days&period;&NewLine;We find Chuglox lazing about under a tree telling a story of last nights dream to his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;annoying goblin sidekick”&period; It seems he has decided the drinking gods have sent him a vision of grand adventure&period; Chuglox downs his beer and sets off to find adventuring companions in the local town of Tippler&&num;8217&semi;s Hollow&period; The dynamic and drunken duo set off to The Charming Ogre&semi; a local watering hole to meet their friends and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;drown out the wailing” of annoying sidekick&period;&NewLine;We&&num;8217&semi;re first introduced to Bartlebut via a full panel belch&period; Good show &&num;8216&semi;ole bean&period; Bartlebut&&num;8217&semi;s a one-eyed berserker busily drowning his sorrows in a tankard of ale&period; His companion, Malty, is a dashing rogue with a penchant for using lemons in combat&period; &period; &period;and for getting stabby like any good rogue&period; Every adventuring party needs sex appeal&excl; So says Chuglox&excl; So say we all&excl; Daquirin, an elven sorceress fulfills this duty willingly&period; The scene continues with classic tavern hijinks and one liners&period; The need to unwind with alcohol is omnipresent and the humor, while nonstop, isn&&num;8217&semi;t overdone and I enjoyed these pages immensely and with a good feeling that these people had fought side by side before&period;&NewLine;Meanwhile, an evil wizard and his equally annoying sidekick or familiar receive a similar vision that comes as a warning&colon; A mighty hero will rise up and thwart the plans of the Mighty Moorfist&period; These two confer on how best to preserve their dastardly plan&period; A dragon wearing a slave crown should do the trick&period; Is this the same crown Chuglox is seen wearing in the opening panels&quest; Later issues will no doubt reveal the truth&period;&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/05101745/Gallery-Journey-Web&period;jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-62175 size-full" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/05101745/Gallery-Journey-Web&period;jpg" alt="Traveling Montage" width="940" height="508" /></a>&NewLine;We find the brave heroes traveling away from Tipplers Hollow in search of grand adventure&period; After a long day of hiking and drinking, they make camp&period; Alcohol is consumed, lemons are named, elven maidens are bedded&period; &period; &period; good times had by all&period; The morning brings great danger and great hangovers&period; Low level goblins attack the camp, sent by Moorfist to dispatch the protagonists&period; We get so see the heroes show off their moves in combat as well as get our first casualty&period; Our poor annoying sidekick falls in battle&period; No one kills their annoying sidekick&excl; The fight resumes with vigor and an enraged Chuglox wins the day with the help of his comrades&period; They allow one goblin to flee and warn Mighty Moorfist of his coming demise&period; So ends issue one&period;&NewLine;<a href="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/05101737/BnIQyCDIgAEYLoA&period;png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-62176" src="https&colon;//cdn&period;bagogames&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/05101737/BnIQyCDIgAEYLoA&period;png" alt="Drinking Quest Throwdown" width="750" height="586" /></a>&NewLine;Drinking Quest certainly doesn&&num;8217&semi;t take itself too seriously and readers shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t take it seriously either&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s just good fun for the sake of telling a story with a strong sense of over the top barbarian machismo, and its main character is delightfully over the top&period; Think Conan the Barbarian, three sheets to the wind – with a liberal smattering of unintentional comedian thrown in&period; The berserker and thief both fulfill support combat roles and are very funny and quirky in their own right&period; They are, of course, overshadowed by the charisma of larger than life Chuglox, though I don&&num;8217&semi;t see that as a bad thing&period; They make mighty fine support characters and I enjoy reading them as well&period; Daquirin serves as a strong, but saucy sorceress who in general is the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;straight man”&period; She gets plenty of zingers and one-liners too, but every comedy needs her role filled&period; Every adventuring party needs a good spell caster also&period; This elven maiden fills that role admirably&period; Moorfist is a classic villain&colon; Evil for the sake of evil&period; Drinking Quest lends itself to a comic quite well&period;&NewLine;The first issue does a great job of introducing main characters and establishing the Drinking Quest Universe&period; This epic quest seems to be unfolding into an action comedy that will be fun and fast paced from start to finish&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m excited for the rest of the issues and highly recommend the comic&period; You don&&num;8217&semi;t need to play the game to enjoy the story, but I highly recommend the game as well&period;&NewLine;I&&num;8217&semi;d compare this to a night of drunken Dungeons and Dragons played with good friends and good booze&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a wonderfully violent and hilarious romp through a high fantasy world&period; Three Cheers for Drinking Quest&excl;&NewLine;For more about Drinking Quest, Jason Anarchy, and the comic book check out&colon; www&period;drinkingquest&period;com&period; For more on each of your gaming, movie, and television, and comics needs, stay with us here at <a href="https&colon;//bagogames&period;com">BagoGames&period;com</a>&excl;&NewLine;

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