Rose, Juniper and Goro are all part of an adventuring party more or less led by Prince Chrip, a little frog in particularly fancy clothes who, when not adventuring with her friends, is first in line for the throne in a kingdom of bears (she was adopted as to why she’s Prince Chirp and not Princess Chrip, it’s never addressed, but the comic is extremely LGBTQ-friendly). There is also some genuinely moving emotional content among the core characters and the wider supporting cast. It’s also extremely tightly plotted, and that plot is straightforward enough that it could very easily have been at the center of a more serious graphic novel. There are a lot of jokes of various degrees of sophistication throughout the book, and Goetter’s character designs are all quite cartoonish, but it would be wrong to call Dungeon Critters a comedy, just because of how much comedy there is in it, or even how funny it is (and it’s quite funny). And when Goro needs to use his snake abilities to track a scent with his tongue, he hops onto his belly and slithers along the ground, despite the fact that he has very sturdy arms and legs (“Could he always do that?” one Dungeon Critter asks another). Later, when the Critters encounter a monstrous cobra guarding a passageway, the team’s quiet, stoic fighter Goro, an anthropomorphic snake, befriends it.
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