The Acolyte A Success, Wonder Man Fails, Comic Pros Hate IDW - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
I went back and did a nice reread of The Hobbit which I wrote up down below, and now am delving into The Book of Lost Tales, which is like a proto-Simarillion from Tolkien. Meanwhile, I’m also working on fleshing out my fantasy world for the Von Monocle series, which has been a lot of fun so far. That world actually layered in a lot of in-world mythology about giants and ancient crystal mages and has some depth to it already, so the results are going to be fun. Back to fantasy news!
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