Guitar Phantasy Review
Taking cues from great fantasy stories such as Lord of the Rings and Conan the Barbarian, Guitar Phantasy from Moonrise Comics does the unthinkable: it channels the spirit of these and other such fantasy epics and crams it into eleven tight pages. Yep, you heard me, in a humble eleven pages, writer Tim Bach and artist Carl Peterson weave a captivating tale of foul demons, fair maidens (in guitar form) and long haired teenagers. It reads like a hero's ballad, looks like a metal album cover come to life and feels like Conan the Barbarian and Scott Pilgrim had a rocking love child. The story follows Kevin, your stereotypical teenage boy, on a quest to defeat an ancient demon and prove himself worthy to wield the guitar Excalibur. It's a simple plot but within it lies the essence of all fantasy stories: you have a hero, an epic task and the eternal struggle between good and evil. Carefully mixed in with these traditional fantasy elements is the universal adolescent mal...