Dungeon: Zenith Vol. 5

“The humor can be biting and sly. And precisely because it is so light and warmhearted, the moments of melancholy and actual profundity reach into your chest, pull out your heart and keep it hostage.” -The New York Times Book Review “This is an outstanding Dungeons and Dragons parody that serves as a stand-alone story. Readers will be entertained, even those unaccustomed to comic fantasy fiction. These anthropomorphic characters are well drawn, and the snappy dialogue is craftily paired with Boulet’s stunning imagery.“ -School Library Journal “It’s hard to say if Sfar and Trondheim’s long running Dungeon epic is a dead-on parody of sword-and-sorcery cliches or if it’s just a first-rate fantasy series that happens to star anthropomorphic animals and involves lots of comedy. Boulet handles the action set pieces and slapstick farce with equal aplomb, and Trondheim and Sfar shake up the tone of the story every few pages: there’s romance next to brutal violence, and tender whimsy punctuated by cruelly bleak humor.”—Publishers Weekly In the PASTE 10 Essential Euro Comics That Should Belong in Every Collection “As always, Dungeon is full of humor - mostly dark, always dry, usually quick in ways an unsuspecting reader could miss, but very funny a lot of the time in a lot of ways.“—Andrew Wheeler​, The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. “Surreal, earthy, brilliantly outlandish, sharply poignant, wittily hilarious and powerfully tragic, this is a subtly addictive read delivered via vibrant, wildly eccentric cartooning that is an absolute marvel of exuberant, graphic style.” —Win Wiacek, Now Read This “Beautifully illustrated, deftly crafted, laced with humor, and fully entertaining read.” —James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

Lewis Trondheim is one of the leaders of a new generation of comic artists bringing in novel ways of creating comics. One of the founders of the disruptive ‘L’Association’ publishing cooperative in France, he helped usher in much longer and sophisticated narratives in the graphic novel form. He is an amazing font of original and out of the box ideas that have propelled him to a leading author standing in Europe.

Joann Sfar is an artist, writer, and film director. He is best known for his adaptation of The Little Prince and his original bestselling title The Rabbi’s Cat.

Boulet, born in Meaux, France, now resides in Paris. He is a leading artist, scriptwriter and colorist for many popular series including becoming the regular artist on the Zenith subseries of Dungeon.