There’s something to be said for hack-n-slash fantasy stories that don’t make you think, include absurdly high body counts, and feature the occasional bout of witty repartee: they’re like store-bought chocolate chip cookies…they’ll satisfy a craving even if they’re somewhat generic. Sometimes, by virtue of such meticulous crafting and clever manipulation of convention, that type of story can ascend to the level of homemade gooey goodness, and those are the ones you remember.Skullkickers falls in...

This was a load of good ole' swords and sorcery fantasy that was fun to read. I really enjoyed it. This Treasure Trove collects issues 1-11 from the Skullkickers comic and includes two additional stories. Our two heroes (or more like anti-heroes) are mercenaries trying to make a living and a name for themselves. They end up facing off with a necromancer (who’s gotten a bit too big for his britches) and a ginormous evil plant. This novel is action packed, a bit crude at times, and occasionally hi...

This was like best of the best Hollywood summer blockbusters (or what we call in India as masala movie), full on entertainment value. Yes, you may not get all those layer upon layers of intrigues or social commentary but really who gives a $#!T. Comics should be fun, and by Jove this book has got it in spades!I normally like Ed Brubaker sort of books (oh I love some good Brubaker!!) in other words books with lots of grit noir quality, so sword-sandal-sorcery fantasy is not really my cup of tea.

Great fun and genuinely funny.

This is one of the best collections I have read in a long while. I am a big fan of Joe Abercrombie which means I like a little kick-ass in my fantasy. Well, Skullkickers delivers in a big way! This is a series of stories with Baldy (An enormous guy you do not want to meet in a dark alley) and Shorty (A dwarf you do not want to meet in a dark alley) and their adventures. The violence made me laugh. The dialogue made me laugh. Hell, the sound effects made me laugh! If you like your humor a little

Two mercenaries having their run of the world - a relatively narrow world where they are hated by the local authorities but lauded for the work they succeed in doing. And they make a big mess along the way.

Good volume.

This is a damned fine adventure series. Read it and enjoy.

I enjoyed this more than I expected. Not a huge fan of the art style but the characters are fun and it's good "popcorn fare."

Fantasy comedy that tends toward silly but fun.

This is light fun hack-n-slash fun.

This is that comic-book experience I always imagined--you kick back on a lazy day, open your comic, and enjoy a bright, campy adventure. Our un-named characters don't have complex personalities, they're pretty straight-forward guys. Let's kick some skulls, get paid, and get some beer. No further drive than that...just do enough mercenary work to pay that tab at the end of the night. Don't expect more from them or the story, and you'll like this series just fine. The dwarf especially tickled my f...

This collects the first two TPBs of the SkullKickers story, with a bevy of extras. I'm not sure what I think of the series - it's tongue-in-cheek over-the-top fantasy action with two likably-insane mercenaries who deal with any trouble with their fists, managing to escalate things to insane heights before punching their way back out. Oh, and it's a fairly stock fantasy world but one has a gun (leading to a very funny scene where a room of guards are basically trapped by the gun on its own, manag...

Bold action, bold characters, and a bold style, everything about this series is in your face. Yet it is done in such a way that it works. It's visual humour is matched by its writing with scene or time changes being described as "post-violence", and "property destruction". Dialogue too gets a creative overhaul when it is preceded with phrases like "body language translator", referring to their non-verbal communication at the moment. The most noticeable, and by far most used form of amusing verbi...

Skullkickers: Treasure Trove is about two guys (a dwarf who uses axes and a big, bald guy with a magical pistol) who go around town and kick skulls in. This all takes place in a mid-earth type of setting. Hence the title: Skullkickers.The first arc, our two main characters set off to find the killer responsible for assassinating a noble person. They fight zombies and a boss-like character at the end of the first arc.The second arc of this beautiful hardcover continues right off where we left our...

I read a free issue of Skullkickers through Comixology a while ago and thought it was a pleasant, ridiculous romp: two fantasy characters kicking ass and taking names in a violent fantasy world. It was not a particularly deep or interesting comic, but that first issue was clearly not trying to be anything more than a violent romp. So I didn't follow up.But then, at the library, I found a collected edition, so I picked it up. And, you know, it takes a certain amount of skill to do this sort of vi...

I love this comic! Funny as hell, exciting, wonderfully written, marvelously drawn, and a lot deeper than the premise would lead one to suspect. I wasn't familiar with the comic, or with Jim Zub, until some web comic (Schlock Mercenary, perhaps?) provided a link to where it's been republished on the web, 3 comic pages per week. Well, I started at the beginning, read up as far as they'd gotten, and I've kept up ever since. Some web comics I'm happy to just read for a while and then forget about.

This was a lot of fun. If you're into parodic or comedic takes on D&D tabletop gaming, a la The Order of the Stick and Table Titans, this is certainly worth checking out. The two protagonists embody a lot of the classic meathead / meatshield characterizations of D&D brawlers, and there are some genuine laugh-out-loud moments. I look forward to further adventures featuring these less-than-honorable monster punchers in subsequent volumes!

What a fun series! The Treasure Trove is a great collection of volume 1 and 2, plus Four Tavern Tales. The collection is sturdy and absolutely beautiful... not to mention that is has one of the most hilarious fantasy stories within it's hard bound cover.If you're a comic fan and you don't have this on your shelf, what's wrong with you?

It's a fun, light-hearted adventure series, which takes the adventure stuff seriously while including huge doses of humor. Like Ghostbusters with swords and axes! Recommended for fans of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories.