Once upon a time, a university professor with a major jones for linguistics wrote a story about a town of vertically challenged people, a piece of magical jewelry so utterly fabulous that everybody was dying to get their hands on it, fey woodland people who may or may not have pointy ears, and an old guy with a long white beard and the world’s most awesome parlor. The story went on to inspire countless other people until one day, your local Borders had twelve to fifteen bookshelves devoted to an entire literary subgenre spawned from that man’s little hobby. That university professor was an Englishman by the name of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Today’s comic is yet another work that owes a great deal to the Lord of the Rings … though, to be honest with you, it feels more like a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. So gird yourself with you Reading Glasses of +2 Perspicacity, because I’m going to take a look at Jason Janicki and Leigh Kellogg’s fantasy webcomic, Wayfarer’s Moon.

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