Dungeon Critters
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter's Dungeon Critters is a middle-grade graphic novel about a gang of adorable animal friends on a D&D style dungeon crawl.
Quests! Plots! Evil Plants! Magic and mayhem!
Join the Dungeon Critters—a tight-knit squad of animal companions—on a wild adventure investigating a sinister botanical conspiracy among the furry nobility. As they risk their lives traveling through haunted dungeons, swamps, and high society balls—they also come closer together as friends.
Motivated by rivalries, ideals, and a lust for adventure, these critters navigate not only perils and dangers of the natural world, but also perils and dangers…of the heart!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Anxious dog June; stolid Goro, a legged snake; flamboyant cat Rose; and self-assured frog Prince Chirp are the Dungeon Critters, a wisecracking, villain-fighting, dungeon-raiding group of anthropomorphic friends who roam a magical fantasy kingdom. A clue linking a plant necromancer with Prince Chirp's lifelong archnemesis, the Baron, serves as an excuse for the team to don disguises and infiltrate the Baron's next soiree. Soon, they are neck-deep in a madcap spree involving secret identities, monsters and thieves, relationships and rivalries, trials and treason, and even a bit of arson. Riess and Goetter create a lighthearted slapstick escapade that prioritizes jokes per page while playing with the conventions of fantasy and RPG adventures. The largely queer main cast (Rose and June give off a will-they/won't-they vibe, Goro has a distant beau named Horseboy), with their complementary skills and personalities, create solid chemistry emphasized by cute character design and an amusing preponderance of meticulously assembled outfits. The panels are busy, both crammed with visual and textual jokes and filled with near-constant action, but this generally works in the book's favor, maintaining a rollicking pace that covers the occasional plot hole. Jaunty, funny, and fun. Ages 8 12.
Customer Reviews
100% needs a second book!
Loved the book’s art style, character design and development (even though it left out June and Rose’s past), witty jokes (I’m a dad joke person myself, even though I’m just a teen), the adventure itself, and, well, everything about this book! It’s like Warrior Cats, Survivor Dogs, Seeker Bears, and other series with animals got together with Dungeons and Dragons and made this. This is one of the best books I’ve ever read and I really want a sequel to it as I feel it is open to many new possibilities with that ending. If a sequel is not created soon, I will not hesitate to share my ideas to help out!
I NEED A SECOND BOOOOKKKK
This was amazing, and I truly loved it and the thought that ther is a cliff hanger at the end that could bloom out a second book,makes me won’t to make the second but I don’t have the time bcs I’m going to college soon and that is to much for me.sooooo I HOPE that you all choose to make another that would make my heart l-e-a-p for joy. :D