Random Quickie: Celtic Shaman
I’m going to assume that, at some point in Chris McQuaid’s Celtic Shaman, we’re going to learn that a portal to the Forgotten Realms must have opened in Canada. There’s mystical creatures everywhere. The hero, a rugged loner named Mannix, punches his way through several of these creatures as he tours the country’s backroads: a sea monster in New Brunswick, succubi in Quebec, and an ogre dressed up as a mall Santa in Mississauga, Ontario. Fortunately, Mannix is a man blessed with magic powers, fists of steel, and a sexy genie named Dru at his side. It’s a light-hearted and breezy comic where shamanism is grumblingly referred to as “spiritual pest control.”
Posted on February 23, 2013, in Random Quickies, webcomics. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
So should I read it?
Believe it or not, I had a whole review lined up for this comic, but then I ended chopping it down to this one little blurb because I changed my mind on it so many times. I think it’s somewhere between 3 to 4 stars personally. However, I jumped into it thinking it was going to be pretty atrocious, and I ended up liking it a lot. Again, my biases come into play here: I love stories that take place in the Canadian back country, and it was a hoot visiting those locations here. But that’s my own personal bias — I have a feeling other readers wouldn’t get the same thrill.
That splash page picture was gold. Scantly clad ladies almost always work for me.