It’s rare that I’ll stick around to read more issues of a series once I’ve stopped enjoying it, but as I had picked up the entirety of the first Pathfinder series as part of a huge bundle of digital comics, I figured I might as well stick with it until the bitter end.

And honestly, if I had been paying for each of these individual issues, I would have been massively disappointed.

The normally reliable Jim Zub seems to be phoning in the story and characters (any development we got as flashbacks in the last issue have now been handwaved away as a mixture of memories and hallucinations), and the art is full of baffling point of view choices and angular, tangled messes where you genuinely cannot see what’s happening.

This issue brings the series to a close with a fight against the big bad, and it would definitely have helped to be able to see the action unfolding clearly.

You’re still well looked after if you’re a fan of the Pathfinder TTRPG though, given that each issue, this one included, features numerous pages of supplemental material, including a map, which can be used in your roleplaying sessions.

For pure comic fans though, this series is a massive letdown and a bland, boring, confusing use of the Pathfinder license. Plenty more Pathfinder stories have followed this one, and thanks to the aforementioned bundle I have most of them. Do they get better? We’ll find out soon enough!

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