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Ravine: Finely Crafted, Stunning

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I am a big fan of Shinku by Ron Marz. I enjoy his writing immensely and how can you not love samurai and vampires. I follow him on twitter and noticed him mentioning Ravine would be coming out soon. I was ignorant of this book and turned to the internet to do a little more research. I was very happy to learn that this was a creator-owned epic fantasy collaboration between Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic. I was familiar with Sejic from his art in Witchblade and hearing the guys on Funnybooks talk about his work on Artifacts. It definitely sounded like something that I would enjoy and I was lucky enough to get to read this book. Marz and Sejic decided to forgo the usual 22-page comic issue format for this story. They opted instead to go the route of the original graphic novel. This way the story can progress more organically without the need for a cliffhanger every 22 pages. The plan is to tell the story over several volumes. After reading this first story, I have to say that it was an excellent decision. The world that the story is taking place in is large and textured. It has dragons, magic, and gods that one comes to expect from an epic fantasy. The two main differences are in the unique changes that Marz and Sejic bring to the genre. Instead of magic being just another force, it was one of the four gifts that the first dragons bestowed upon....

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