4.5 stars. More weirdness and I love it. Not enough answers and more questions. But it is so entertaining and well paced. The art is continually amazing as well. When will there be a vol. 3?

The adventures of Learoyd and Dusty continue as they investigate a vast sickness across a mountainside while meeting mutants, sheep and goat people. Slowly, the history of the world trickles out with each issue as we start to get a picture of this world Learoyd now inhabits. Dewey's art and designs are fantastic. Can't wait to read more.

A compelling story, great artwork, and goat people with Scottish accents and kilts. What more could you ask for?

This album explored the world in much deeper detail. I found I liked what little we got to know, and the new questions were also interesting — now I just need vol 3...Compared to book 1, this wasn't as action packed, but I liked that. There was a lot to learn.The art is still up to speed and awesome.

This series is so ridiculously good and interesting, I hate that I had to wait so long for the second volume! The central mystery is such an intriguing take on the fantasy genre, that you can't help but keep pushing forward. The issues feel dense, with great prose and incredibly immersive artwork by superstar Benjamin Dewey. the dialogue is great, and at times, downright funny. This was an excellent story, well divorced from the last volume, which helped to re-immerse me in the lore, without fee...

I like this series and this volume had good writing and good art, though maybe slightly less elaborate that volume 1. What happens if the dog boy gets with the sheep girls? Do they make sheep-dogs? How are cross species relations in the Autumn lands? or are they the same species, but different breeds? I think not the latter, or there would be hordes of mongrel giraffe-pigs running around. Are the women made of stone? If so, what is the attraction?

I thought this was an interesting development and I liked how much they slowly showed us more of the world and it's history. It was weird to me that the main characters seemed to completely forget about all the other characters from the last volume but it allowed to keep the story going in a more interesting way. The art is still very good and fitting but I thought the dialogue was a little weaker at times. Probably closer to a 3.5

More anthropomorphic fun as Learoyd and Dusty explore lesser known areas of the world and details begin to emerge that all is not as it seems.Whoaaaa...I really hope Busiek and Co. revisit this series some day, it was niche but I really did like where it seemed to be going.

I found this volume of The Autumnlands engaging but a profound shift seemingly from the plot of the first volume. Busiek has Leonyrd and Dusty go on more of a picaresque adventure encountering various different forces through the journey. Yet it is slow in unfolding and seemingly meandering, but as a fantasy adventure there is precedent for such a structure. Dewey's art Bellaire's color work are crucial: both fresh but invokes the feel of classic fantasy comics. Leonyrd and Dusty both develop as...

I think the only way to describe this series is as delightfully weird. After setting the scene in the first volume, which at times could become a bit tedious, this volume is non-stop action / existential mystery, as it starts unveiling the double narrative of what is actually happening and what the misunderstood tales of the future (?) will say - not to mention the reality behind the misunderstood tales of Dusty's present.Not to mention that Henry Higgins (yes, of "My Fair Lady" fame) plays quit...

(4,4 for awesome sword & sorcery fantasy, sadly without proper ending)As I really enjoyed the first book, I went straight to the second one. And it is still good, maybe even better thanks to exploring the world and digging into its history and mystery.The sad thing is this series end unfinished. Maybe the authors are getting pause, working on the other project or they dropped entirely. I feel it's not well known, so maybe the numbers weren't motivating, but it's shame, I think this is a really g...

Three stars because of the artwork. While the story arc in this collected volume is an entertaining adventure, it doesn't move much. Whereas in the first volume the animal characters were new and exciting, here they only seemed sketched out and glossed over to me. Also, Learoyd's abilities are revealed without much depth. The banter between Dusty and Learoyd is at times humorous here amidst the crazy, so if you have read the first volume I'd say give it a go. Not sure I will be following on with...

It's been a while, but Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey's Autumnlands returns for a second volume as Learoyd and Dusty set off on a journey across the lands below and run afoul of mutants, a horny goat, and robots. Lots of robots. The history of the Autumnlands is slowly drip-fed to us as the story progresses, and questions of morality and whether what we've always known is everything as it should be are asked both out loud and through Dusty's internal monologue. This is especially prominent as th...

Though this volume isn't quite as good as Volume, it continues to be a beautifully illustrated, well-characterized, evocative, and innovative fantasy.This second volume is interesting for its total embrace of the pulp stylings that the first volume had played with. But, it turns out that they're not just stylings, this is a pulp adventure, and here we drift over to the science fantasy side of things. It's another fun story that also feels very different from Tooth & Claw.

The curious fantasy/science fiction graphic novel series The Autumnlands continues in volume two: Woodland Creatures.In the last book, the chosen one, "Learoyd", a violent and profanity-laden human from the future or, perhaps, the distant past, was summoned by a group of magic-wielding, sentient animals to save their world from the disappearance of magic.But the effort of summoning Learoyd was so great, that it caused one of their sky-roving cities to crash to the earth. On the earth, there were...

Very nice blend of Fantasy, SiFi and superhero style story. Good art also. I wish it had gone on for more issues. Recommended

It's been nearly three years since I read the first volume, so I was a little lost at first. But then I started to remember how a gruff human soldier had been pulled from the past or an alternate reality into a fantasy world full of manimals, teamed up with a nice dogguy, some stuff happened with a bunch of angry bisonguys and then a floating city crashed.The human is still gruff, he and dogguy have teamed up with a goatguy, some stuff happens with a bunch of angry topless human statues/sex slav...

This comic is, if anything, even better than the last one, although we're still only getting hints that make things more confusing rather than answers. This volume primarily follows Learoyd and Dunstan after they haul themselves out of the river they ended up in at the end of volume one. The other animals, the various lords and leaders among the wizard tribes, were only seen for a few pages in the first issue of the volume. We find out that not only in the past, in Learoyd's time, but in the pre...

For all the occasional outbursts of violence, The Autumnlands is one of Image's cosier comics, a relaxing wallow in a bath of familiar - but very well executed - science-fantasy tropes. Case in point: volume 2 spends a whole enjoyable issue in a town full of beer-drinking anthropomorphic sheep. Kurt Busiek's smooth, straightforward storytelling is a pleasure and Ben Dewey's lush illustration even more of one, particularly his faux-pulp frontispieces. The move away from the complex squabbling of

Bullet Review:You know, for a rather unextraordinary start, this volume did some interesting things. It explored this weird world, threw in Sheep People and Goat People, and gave the Champion some space not to act like a dick.Even though I read it and had to put it aside to travel, I enjoyed myself. This may not be out of the ballpark amazing, but it's one thing that's also too rare: Good.