#The pretenders guild walkthrough full

Perhaps the most exciting part is that “Volume One” in the subtitle. While this is a pastiche of what passed for young adult lit in the Victorian era, it’s not a children’s book it’s unlikely young adults would understand its nuances, though they could certainly revel in its adventure. Rick Ross’s graphic sections have a wonderful illustrative style and meld seamlessly, and the entire package is just… darn near perfect.

#The pretenders guild walkthrough full

The “dear reader” sections are true to the Victorian conceit while chock full of wry humor, characterization is robust, and everything is cleverly executed. In the acknowledgments, Jon Baird calls the music Kevin’s (yes, it’s that Kevin Costner) with Baird just playing the notes – Baird gives himself too little credit. Jules, Rudyard, Robert Louis, all of you – move the h- over (the conceit extends to dashing out profanity).

Dirigibles, submersibles, memory machines, a sinister black-robed group (of course), orphans, pirates, beautiful Russian actresses, flaming octopi projectiles this is so much fun. Narrative sections are punctuated by graphic pages illustrating connecting dialogue or action.

Written in a style emulating the adventure tales of the Victorian period, the publisher has gone all out for the conceit – pages are even faux-foxed to look old. John Ogden, commands a motley bunch of dragoons in Arabia until Arthur’s misfortune drags him and his company into a globe-trotting adventure. And there is a BRAND SPANKING NEW CG in Rafael’s route The voiced files are currently in beta, so a couple lines might be missing here and there and there may be a few sound issues. Meanwhile, his brother, the implacable and darn near invincible Col. I’m so sorry this took forEVER but TPG chapter 1 is now fully voiced. Traveling to the Arctic on a drunken dare, Ogden falls through the ice and discovers… something he’s the only one to make it back alive, though damaged. World War I rages, and Arthur Ogden, a rather useless sort of upper-class twit, joins the Explorers Guild, a gentlemen’s club whose adventurer members must make some notable discovery to attain entry. This uniformly grand work of imagination brought a smile to my face the second I opened the cover, and 700 some-odd pages flew by in a frenzy of enjoyment. Written by Jon Baird Kevin Costner Rick Ross (illus.) Stephen Meyer The Explorers Guild: Volume One: A Passage to Shambhala