Carlos García & François Peneaud ~ Brother To Dragons (Volume 1)
From: Class Comics
Alaï the horny farm boy (with two dots above his i) travels to the big city to see his not so horny cousin Rano and along the way just to keep his horny quotient going he gives a mysterious hairy coachman Jiki (with two red eyes) and a dragon tramp stamp a little sumtin sumtin…
Well, that’s about it. No, I don’t mean like I am trying not to give the plot away… that’s about all that goes on in this damn comic story wise. Besides tons of sex that is. I know it’s erotica but come on! The artwork by Carlos García is gor-jesus but I have to admit I have no clue what this story might even be about to tell you if it is any good. Honestly, I have gotten more plot information from reading the sales blurbs in the Samhain coming soon pages.
In the first few pages Alaï “meets” Jiki or should I say “meats” Jiki and we are off to a roll in the hay with convenient tag team by the suddenly appearing Inn Keeper and then with a couple of frames of Jiki walking away with mysterious “red eyes” we are smack dab in the big city. Which then leads to meeting Roni and having a huge flash back sex scene there. Then a slammed in random Jiki moment with three other guys having a sex showdown. Then wham we are in some church with Alaï and the blessing has to be given mouth to mouth if you get my drift.
The problem is between point A and point B there was not much point. Or story. Or explanation. Or even an occasional info dump. That advertisement above gives more information than is in this comic… “In a world where sex and magic are linked.” I did not see a lot of linking. Just lots of people doing “aha” looks, and bwahaha “he’ll do” looks in between sex scenes. Which frankly does not tell me what the hell is going on. Maybe it’s me, maybe I don’t understand how comic books work anymore. Maybe this is what customers expect them to be like at the beginning.
I don’t know. Maybe I am too old.
So based solely on the artwork and the potential it has to make this series special I will raise this thing to a Grade C against my better judgment. I spent money on something I frankly did not get a whole lot out of but promises of an actual story to come. My feeling is they should have probably handed this out for free because after all is said and done volume one comes across to me more like an exceedingly brief sales pitch than an actual story.
Carlos brought his game and it shows but François did not bother to even show up.
Tags: Carlos Garcia, Class Comics, Fantasy, Francois Penaud, Gay Erotica, Grade C
Mrs Giggles wrote,
Class Comics… do they still have all those twenty-foot penises gushing out juices like a fire hydrant? It seemed like they are catering to an audience who likes it very, very big. I’ve bought a few during their cheap sale a while back, and they are like this one you reviewed – very low on plot, more on sex. Too bad the exaggerated knee-length penises look more comical than sexy to me. Spoils the otherwise pretty cute artworks.
Link | February 18th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Sarah wrote,
I liked this one, but it is short. Wish they’d get the next one out, seems like ages!!
Link | February 18th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Heidi Cullinan wrote,
Damn. As soon as I saw the art, I wanted it. Of course, I wanted story too.
Damn.
Link | February 18th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
I bought Pornomicon with this one expecting horror and all I got was tentacle sex Mrs. Giggles. I have a DVD with a whole movie about this Japanese monster that does the whole tentacle sex thing. Even that manages to have some sort of a plot though.
I find it strange and even comical but not so much horror anymore and not when your whole gig is the tentacle sex with nothing else story wise.
Link | February 19th, 2010 at 4:16 am
François wrote,
Hello.
I’m the writer of Brother to Dragons.
I’m sorry you didn’t find the story interesting. For my defense (and I’m not going to try and explain what I was aiming for, it would sound stupid), I’ll only say that this comic is only one third of the arc (indeed of the first arc, since we’ve got three arcs planned), and all will become clearer (hopefully) in the next issues.
The second issue should be finished very soon, by the way, and Carlos has outdone himself
For the people who would like to read the first chapter of the comic, look at http://brothertodragons.free.fr/
Link | February 19th, 2010 at 7:33 am
TeddyPig wrote,
I’m sorry you didn’t find the story interesting.
It’s not that I did not find the story interesting. I did not find much of a story. This was an introduction in the briefest sense. I have a face associated with a name and maybe a sex act but no idea if they are good guys or bad guys or what I am looking at.
At no time did I feel I was given even a hint at what these people were talking about. No hook into some vague plan or coming action or for that matter any intent at all.
It’s like looking at a family snapshot with no one around to tell you who any of the people pictured are in relation to each other. I can make assumptions but that’s not a story it’s a guess.
Link | February 19th, 2010 at 8:42 am
Teshup wrote,
Hi Francois Peneaud and Carlos Garcia
I like your comic very much and had no problem to follow the story.
To sad it isn’t continued.
I want to know what happends to Alai next, how they get him in their dragon brotherhood.
What it’s got to do with the dragon religion.
I allway find it refreshing not to have just comics where the figures have dicks 10 times as big as the people attached to it.
I like your story and would be glad to see the next episode.
Link | August 11th, 2011 at 8:39 pm