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Tellos is a magical patchwork world made up of a myriad different realms, populated by creatures of myth and legend. A fantastic land filled with adventure around every corner and danger at every turn! Journey to a world more wondrous than any you have ever imagined!
Tellos is an Adventure/Fantasy graphic novel written by Todd Dezago with art by the late Mike Wieringo. It is set in a fairytale land of flying cities, dragons, magic, reptilian mooks, sword fights, and airboats. We follow Jarek, a young boy; Koj, his Man-Tiger companion; and Serra, a swashbuckling Pirate Captain as they get in trouble, meet new people and fend off all sorts of dreadful threats.
The original series debuted in 1999. Volume one, published by Image Comics in 2008, collects the ten issues comprising the original run, plus an afterword by Dezago, a bunch of other stories (namely: Tellos: The Scatterjack Story, Tellos: Prologue and Tellos: Prelude) and a thirteen page sketchbook. Here's a list of the One Shots that followed:
One Shots:
- Tellos: Maiden Voyage.
- Tellos: The Last Heist.
- Tellos: Sons And Moons.
Tellos contains examples of:
- Adventures in Comaland: At the end of the original series, it is revealed that Tellos is a fantasy world that exists in the mind of a boy lying in a coma in the real world. He is Jarek in that world. In the real world, Serra is his sister, Koj his cat, etc.
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Hawke at one point manages to get out of trouble by invoking this trope when caught cheating at a betting game. Since it's forbidden for two members of the Ulfen race to raise arms against each other, he pretends to want a fight and then happens to remember that this is forbidden.
- Cunning Like a Fox: Rikk is a trickster thief and Lovable Rogue. That said, many of the characters argue that he isn't quite as clever as he likes to think he is.
- Evil Sorcerer: Malesur, the mad boy-wizard who seeks Jarek's destruction.
- Pirate Girl: Serra, a tough-as-nails sea captain who is in love with a thief. She sails around the world of Tellos.
