- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Cross Generation Comics (August 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1931484775
- ISBN-13: 978-1931484770
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From Publishers Weekly
In the first collection of this amusing series set in ancient almost-China, naive but nimble young thief Boon Sai Hong stole several magical artifacts and became the target of both treacherous rival gangs and exasperated townspeople who want him to use his new abilities to protect the city of Zhumar from invaders. In this second volume, Boon discovers fame is overrated. First, the crowd that hails him as a celebrity can't remember his name. Then, an invitation to dinner with Judge X'ain leads to the loss of one of the magical objects, the dangerous Book of the Hell of the Hungry Dragons. The power-hungry judge foolishly uses the book to release a huge dragon into this world. The mood becomes more serious as Boon must retrieve the book and send the dragon back to hell, assisted by a frequently drunken talking monkey and a masked female warrior, the Silken Ghost. Readers who enjoy Jackie Chan movies will relish Boon's adventures, and Dixon's scripts make the fight scenes frequent but plausible. The story brings out the best in the artists. Johnson, Ryder and Garcia clearly enjoy creating the exotic settings, and they're especially good at battles, showing human bodies believably stretched into the contorted postures of martial arts. They seem to be having special fun, though, in creating scenes with writhing dragons that are both decorative and threatening. The dragons are a worthy challenge for Boon, who's still trying to figure out how to be a hero.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Has this been released or not?, Oct 26 2004
By Coolwetplace "reader4031" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Way of the Rat Vol. 2: The Dragon's Wake (Paperback)
For those who don't know, CrossGen comics went under in late 2003. I have no idea why, personally: their stuff was always great. I guess it was the "Farscape" phenomenon: tremendous artistic talent, committment to a vision, and a fan base that, while devoted, just never grew beyond a certain level.
The closure of CrossGen left most of the storylines of their titles in a lurch, although, to be fair, they did try to tie off many of them.
But I still don't know whether or not this particular trade paperback was ever released. I can't seem to get an answer out of Amazon, CrossGen, or anyone else. I've never seen a picture of the cover and yet here on the page it says, "July 2004" and there's a review.
Can anyone out there help me?
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