{"id":1776,"date":"2008-01-29T06:46:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T06:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2008-01-29T06:46:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T06:46:51","slug":"dungeon-parade-vol-2-day-of-the-toads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/29\/dungeon-parade-vol-2-day-of-the-toads\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Parade Vol 2: Day of the Toads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/dungeon-parade-vol-2-day-of-the-toads.jpg\" alt=\"Dungeon Parade Vol 2: Day of the Toads\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Joann Sfar<\/strong>, <strong>Lewis Trondheim<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Manu Larcenet<\/strong> (NBM)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-56163-507-8<\/p>\n<p>This slim tome is part of an eccentric, raucous and addictively wacky franchise that it&#8217;s best to experience rather than read about. As well as <strong>Parade<\/strong>, Dungeon also features in <strong>Zenith<\/strong>, <strong>Early Years<\/strong> and <strong>Twilight<\/strong>. There&#8217;s this magic castle, right, and it&#8217;s got a dungeon\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>The inhabitants of this weirdly surreal universe include a duck with a magic sword that forces him to channel dead heroes and monsters, an ibis who knows everything, assorted talking animals, monsters, demons and smart-alecs. There&#8217;s always something happening and it&#8217;s usually quite strange\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>In this volume, an invasion of vampires leads inevitably to an infestation of venomous flying toads, whilst later the castle cess-pit is jammed and our stalwarts discover that taking a school-party along when trying to dislodge decades of backed-up ordure isn&#8217;t very smart. Moreover any civilisation and eco-system that might develop in such a situation doesn&#8217;t take kindly to being flushed away\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Surreal, earthy, sharp and even poignant, this fantasy comedy is subtly addictive to read and the vibrant, wildly eccentric cartooning is an absolute marvel of wild, graphic style. Perhaps a little advanced for younger kids, <strong>Dungeon<\/strong> is the kind of near-the-knuckle, illicit read that older kids will love.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1949, 1956-1959, 1996, 2007 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim &amp; Manu Larcenet (NBM) ISBN: 978-1-56163-507-8 This slim tome is part of an eccentric, raucous and addictively wacky franchise that it&#8217;s best to experience rather than read about. As well as Parade, Dungeon also features in Zenith, Early Years and Twilight. There&#8217;s this magic castle, right, and it&#8217;s got a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/29\/dungeon-parade-vol-2-day-of-the-toads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dungeon Parade Vol 2: Day of the Toads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-sE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}