The Legends of Percevan: The Shadow Of Malicore - Hardcover

Leturgie, Jean; Fauche, Xavier

3.8

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9781589944237: The Legends of Percevan: The Shadow Of Malicore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1589944232 ISBN 13: 9781589944237

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games, 2010

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Percevan is a brave and noble knight in the service of the king. In his adventures he has made many friends and many enemies. He has treated powerful wizards, rescued a beautiful sorceress, and been the salvation of an entire kingdom. Now an ancient magic has been reawakened, and Percevan shall be one of its first victim! In order to save him, his trusted companions, and others whose loyalty is less certain, must unravel long-lost magical secrets and defeat warriors who cannont be killed. Such the legend of Percevan... This volume of the Legends of Percevan collects three stories: The Keys of Fire, The Infernal Knights, and The Emerald Table.

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Jumping into this French fantasy import at volume 3 is easy, and well worth it. You don’t need to know any more than the first-page summary tells you: there’s a brave knight, he’s got a pal, and they fight evil in a fantasy kingdom. What sounds simple enough unfolds into a complex tale as the heroes race to prevent the resurrection of a legion of indestructible knights. In so doing, Percevan himself is lost, and it falls to his pudgy sidekick and a wizard with suspicious motives to save the day. Hailing from the 1990s—before fantasy got all dark and dreary—this graphic novel is washed with bright colors that enliven the scintillating duels of both sword and magic, and fans of Joann Sfar’s Dungeon series will be delighted with the mix of action (heavy) and comedy (broad but light). And as with Cinebook’s Orbital sci-fi series, the French comics sensibility imbues supporting characters—and the final consequences of their actions—with an unusual ambiguity, lending a sense of freshness to the comfortably familiar fantasy trappings. Grades 5-8. --Jesse Karp

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