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I Roved Out in Search of Truth & Love #1
I Roved Out in Search of Truth & Love #1
"I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love" is a high fantasy erotic comic about a lazy elf trying to avoid an epic quest everyone wants to send her on. The story revolves around Cinderella, an extremely friendly, happily-drifting adventurer, and her best friend Maeryll, a semi-retired assassin with refined tastes. The whole comic is free to read online and has just completed its first big arc.
287 pages, ebook
Published May 1, 2018
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August 27, 2018
First thing to know about this comic is that it's porn. I don't mean it's got some 'adult' material. I don't mean there's a bit of skin. I've seen some people refer to "Game of Thrones" as porn. I don't mean like that. This is explicit and graphic. VERY. Unlike so many European comics that also feature explicit sex, this is refreshing in that it isn't violent, it's all consensual, and there's a variety (not all hetero). Unlike so much from Japan, the characters are all clearly adult.
That said, "I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love" is a very fun Fantasy adventure comic that reminded me of a lot of old paperback covers and 70s D&D type stuff. It reminded me a lot of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser stories. It's got a colorful cast of characters and a strange world for them to wander around in. If you are upset by graphically depicted anatomy in various functions, you should probably skip this. However, if you don't mind, and you like your Fantasy lighthearted and strange, this is pretty good.
It's available in an hardcover with some extended sequences, or free as a webcomic. The next part of the story should be coming along soon.
That said, "I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love" is a very fun Fantasy adventure comic that reminded me of a lot of old paperback covers and 70s D&D type stuff. It reminded me a lot of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser stories. It's got a colorful cast of characters and a strange world for them to wander around in. If you are upset by graphically depicted anatomy in various functions, you should probably skip this. However, if you don't mind, and you like your Fantasy lighthearted and strange, this is pretty good.
It's available in an hardcover with some extended sequences, or free as a webcomic. The next part of the story should be coming along soon.
April 13, 2022
This comic would make Milo Manara blush. This is the epitome of smut, lewdness, and hornyness. I mean, sometimes you just want to read about two elves banging it out.
May 20, 2018
First things first, this is an adult comic. Not adult like Deadpool. Go well beyond that and consider this well before diving into it.
Sass, sex, adventure, and more follow Cinder (Cinderella), the protagonist in a world of seasonal wars that clash and cause drastic weather changes, where watchers are appointed to see those battles end, and sometimes entities of otherworldy nature leave something behind. This something becomes the focus of a mad, multi-dash to see who gets to it first.
Can't a girl slut it up in the woods anymore? Yes, yes she can and does.
I appreciate this book for its art. Yes, I said it with a straight face. In a world where balloon breasts and gravity seem to take no effect on the female body, Alexis Flower doesn't shy away from real physics, coloring, and shape.
Lastly, thanks to the person that handed me this wonder, saying the protagonist reminded him of me. I'll take that as a compliment to my grave and beyond.
Recommended for the openminded, adventure-hungry, and perverted.
Sass, sex, adventure, and more follow Cinder (Cinderella), the protagonist in a world of seasonal wars that clash and cause drastic weather changes, where watchers are appointed to see those battles end, and sometimes entities of otherworldy nature leave something behind. This something becomes the focus of a mad, multi-dash to see who gets to it first.
Can't a girl slut it up in the woods anymore? Yes, yes she can and does.
I appreciate this book for its art. Yes, I said it with a straight face. In a world where balloon breasts and gravity seem to take no effect on the female body, Alexis Flower doesn't shy away from real physics, coloring, and shape.
Lastly, thanks to the person that handed me this wonder, saying the protagonist reminded him of me. I'll take that as a compliment to my grave and beyond.
Recommended for the openminded, adventure-hungry, and perverted.
October 11, 2021
The creator describes it as "a warmly pornographic fantasy saga" and that's exactly what it is. GORGEOUS artwork.
June 10, 2022
This is a refreshing and quite unique erotic comic. Meaning: it is well drawn, no amateurish over-sized elven breasts here (although over-sized elven breasts are featured quite a bit). It is explicitly pornographic and not implicitly erotic. Still it is charming, funny, warm, instead of vulgar, depressing and violating (both its characters and the readers mind). And it has some sort of a bit vague story in a inventive and grandiose fantasy universe, not the 100st retelling of tolkien-tropes (which I love). The world-building could be clearer, but then again, I'm reading this for the cocks and cunts.
February 29, 2020
Whether tasked with exploring ancient ruins and its nearby swamp, escaping the aether-blade of a gargoyle assassin, or acquiring a map from a venerable bone-scrivener and nun, Cinder and Maeryll, more often than not, will end up naked, sweaty, and irate. Not that anyone could blame them. The path to those ancient ruins was occupied by a really horny frog prince. That assassin dude apparently mistook the ladies' friends-with-benefits relationship for something more. And those nuns on the edge of town? Ravenous lesbians.
I ROVED OUT IN SEARCH OF TRUTH & LOVE is hilarious and sexy and very, very weird. The graphic novel combines low-fantasy adventurism with the tricky musings of long-form erotic fiction, winking and curling its finger every two or three pages. In this world, knife fights and fist fights are around every corner, but so are sticky fingers, tired tongues, and the magical orgasm chair belonging to Mother Solitude of the Order of Everyday Virtues at Gorbeau Strasse, a cloister under the Valipistine Diocese of Bastienne the Modern of Our Lady of Ashes (Maeryll: "What religion is this, again?").
But yes, adventure is around every corner. After all, who does one send on a dangerous assignment to collect an item of unknown power from the most treacherous castle tower in the region? Cinder is a biracial elf frequently tagged for small-potatoes missions. She's kinda lazy, enjoys tacos, and is a really damn good fighter, when things get nasty.
Maeryll, Cinder's buddy, is a snow elf with anti-mage abilities, former World's Deadliest Assassin, and an indefatigable lesbian. Both women have a history full of arrogant patronage, loves lost, and unasked-for responsibilities won. Fortunately or unfortunately, their reputation precedes them when an object of arcane mythos falls from the stars. Not that every other rich fool won't be sending a party to collect the magical item . . . but whomever sends Cinder and Maeryll surely has better odds than not.
Cinder doesn't like the obligations that come with official scout work, and Maeryll would much rather sip wine, smoke hash, and lay around in the sun than test her blade against some idiot sorcerer who got in her way . . . but alas, that's the funny thing about life-changing adventures: one doesn't get to choose where or when they begin.
The beauty and strength of I ROVED OUT rests in the parallel intuitions of its characters: both running from, and searching for, one's past; both yielding to, and egging on, one's future. Cinder and Maeryll stumble forward only after having stumbled backward. For example, Maeryll goes down on an archivist (with a horrible fashion sense) so as to gain access to a trove of forbidden scrolls. Setting aside the librarian's bodacious body, as well as her green and pink socks, readers would be keen to remember what it is the snow elf finds written in a mysterious old script.
Indeed, adventure waits for no one. It's hard for one to avoid responsibility when a four-armed and fanged madame throws a knife in one's leg (Cinder: "She's giving you a contract to help me on this fuckin' quest.").
And it's extraordinarily tempting for an elf to avoid responsibility when her purported date doesn't show up to a sexy masquerade that went sideways after assassins and spies crash the party (Maeryll: "I don't want to hear anything about a moondrop until some dark sorcerer wanker finally gets his paws on it and makes a floating city or a wormhole or turns the ocean to glass or brings down a dragon or some shit!").
I ROVED OUT has its fair share of strangeness and chaos that seems inherent to low-fantasy epics about characters who should know better (but don't). This graphic novel is structured such that some sections need to be read multiple times to tease out the connective tissue. As when a mysterious figure carves an epic weapon out of an equally mysterious power, readers are left guessing as to what these characters' motives are. Or when a character learns she has a magical rune embedded in her forehead . . . and the rune flashes like a beacon . . . but during sex.
Consider also the flashback that glimpses when Cinder and Maeryll first met. The chance meeting ends in tragedy but could very well explain much of the book's feathery foreshadowing of death, soullessness, and "eldritch potency."
The author's art owns the slick, painterly precision native to a story that requires quick brushstrokes but takes full advantage of a strong and clever script and very determined (and very consistent) coloring. Readers won't tire of the number of ways (or reasons) for encountering Cinder's naked butt; however, they will be thankful for the miraculous and intrepid skill required to conjure such fluffy buns no matter the angle or lighting in hotel rooms, wine cellars, sex dungeons, travel wagons, and bathing pools of murderous mer-creatures.
This is the first arc of an enduring sexy adventure. Perhaps more on the sexy than on the adventure. Ah, yes. I ROVED OUT definitely has more on the sexy than on the adventure. But the adventure is in there too . . . somewhere (Porcelyn: "Do you remember sending out all those cryptograms?").
I ROVED OUT IN SEARCH OF TRUTH & LOVE is hilarious and sexy and very, very weird. The graphic novel combines low-fantasy adventurism with the tricky musings of long-form erotic fiction, winking and curling its finger every two or three pages. In this world, knife fights and fist fights are around every corner, but so are sticky fingers, tired tongues, and the magical orgasm chair belonging to Mother Solitude of the Order of Everyday Virtues at Gorbeau Strasse, a cloister under the Valipistine Diocese of Bastienne the Modern of Our Lady of Ashes (Maeryll: "What religion is this, again?").
But yes, adventure is around every corner. After all, who does one send on a dangerous assignment to collect an item of unknown power from the most treacherous castle tower in the region? Cinder is a biracial elf frequently tagged for small-potatoes missions. She's kinda lazy, enjoys tacos, and is a really damn good fighter, when things get nasty.
Maeryll, Cinder's buddy, is a snow elf with anti-mage abilities, former World's Deadliest Assassin, and an indefatigable lesbian. Both women have a history full of arrogant patronage, loves lost, and unasked-for responsibilities won. Fortunately or unfortunately, their reputation precedes them when an object of arcane mythos falls from the stars. Not that every other rich fool won't be sending a party to collect the magical item . . . but whomever sends Cinder and Maeryll surely has better odds than not.
Cinder doesn't like the obligations that come with official scout work, and Maeryll would much rather sip wine, smoke hash, and lay around in the sun than test her blade against some idiot sorcerer who got in her way . . . but alas, that's the funny thing about life-changing adventures: one doesn't get to choose where or when they begin.
The beauty and strength of I ROVED OUT rests in the parallel intuitions of its characters: both running from, and searching for, one's past; both yielding to, and egging on, one's future. Cinder and Maeryll stumble forward only after having stumbled backward. For example, Maeryll goes down on an archivist (with a horrible fashion sense) so as to gain access to a trove of forbidden scrolls. Setting aside the librarian's bodacious body, as well as her green and pink socks, readers would be keen to remember what it is the snow elf finds written in a mysterious old script.
Indeed, adventure waits for no one. It's hard for one to avoid responsibility when a four-armed and fanged madame throws a knife in one's leg (Cinder: "She's giving you a contract to help me on this fuckin' quest.").
And it's extraordinarily tempting for an elf to avoid responsibility when her purported date doesn't show up to a sexy masquerade that went sideways after assassins and spies crash the party (Maeryll: "I don't want to hear anything about a moondrop until some dark sorcerer wanker finally gets his paws on it and makes a floating city or a wormhole or turns the ocean to glass or brings down a dragon or some shit!").
I ROVED OUT has its fair share of strangeness and chaos that seems inherent to low-fantasy epics about characters who should know better (but don't). This graphic novel is structured such that some sections need to be read multiple times to tease out the connective tissue. As when a mysterious figure carves an epic weapon out of an equally mysterious power, readers are left guessing as to what these characters' motives are. Or when a character learns she has a magical rune embedded in her forehead . . . and the rune flashes like a beacon . . . but during sex.
Consider also the flashback that glimpses when Cinder and Maeryll first met. The chance meeting ends in tragedy but could very well explain much of the book's feathery foreshadowing of death, soullessness, and "eldritch potency."
The author's art owns the slick, painterly precision native to a story that requires quick brushstrokes but takes full advantage of a strong and clever script and very determined (and very consistent) coloring. Readers won't tire of the number of ways (or reasons) for encountering Cinder's naked butt; however, they will be thankful for the miraculous and intrepid skill required to conjure such fluffy buns no matter the angle or lighting in hotel rooms, wine cellars, sex dungeons, travel wagons, and bathing pools of murderous mer-creatures.
This is the first arc of an enduring sexy adventure. Perhaps more on the sexy than on the adventure. Ah, yes. I ROVED OUT definitely has more on the sexy than on the adventure. But the adventure is in there too . . . somewhere (Porcelyn: "Do you remember sending out all those cryptograms?").
August 28, 2019
Absolutely beautiful.
Also, I'm excited to see where the story goes... there's a lot of sci-fi lurking in the background.
Also, I'm excited to see where the story goes... there's a lot of sci-fi lurking in the background.
January 29, 2024
I Roved Out es una obra de referencia del arte gráfico secuencial moderno y el cómic adulto de la escuela europea de los 70’s y 80’s al más puro estilo Heavy Metal y Milo Manara.
El autor, un misterioso Alexis Flower (sin redes sociales ni otros trucos publicitarios) domina a la perfección y de memoria las figuras humanas (y algunas no tan humanas también) y toma uno de los temas más trillados del género: elfas sensuales haciendo el amor y lo transforma en una referencia del género, refrescándolo con un erotismo cándido, un grito de libertad y una oda a la sexualidad sin cortapisas o complejos: hay mucho sexo en solitario, gay, lésbico y bisexual en casi todas sus páginas.
Una advertencia: Esto es pornografía, de la seria, no como las series de HBO, sino del estilo muy explícito y sumamente gráfico, pero no por eso deja de ser arte.
Si eso fuera todo quizás no ameritaría cinco estrellas pero la historia, los diálogos, el uso de bocadillos coloreados dependiendo el personaje, las onomatopeyas ilustradas e integradas a la narración gráfica y la creación de un mundo mágico, antiguo pero también tecnológico es impecable.
Mi sugerencia es no leerlo todo de corrido puesto que tiene cientos de pequeños detalles que hacen cada viñeta una obra en sí misma.
Definitivamente no es para todos pero para mi es perfecto muy a su manera.
El autor, un misterioso Alexis Flower (sin redes sociales ni otros trucos publicitarios) domina a la perfección y de memoria las figuras humanas (y algunas no tan humanas también) y toma uno de los temas más trillados del género: elfas sensuales haciendo el amor y lo transforma en una referencia del género, refrescándolo con un erotismo cándido, un grito de libertad y una oda a la sexualidad sin cortapisas o complejos: hay mucho sexo en solitario, gay, lésbico y bisexual en casi todas sus páginas.
Una advertencia: Esto es pornografía, de la seria, no como las series de HBO, sino del estilo muy explícito y sumamente gráfico, pero no por eso deja de ser arte.
Si eso fuera todo quizás no ameritaría cinco estrellas pero la historia, los diálogos, el uso de bocadillos coloreados dependiendo el personaje, las onomatopeyas ilustradas e integradas a la narración gráfica y la creación de un mundo mágico, antiguo pero también tecnológico es impecable.
Mi sugerencia es no leerlo todo de corrido puesto que tiene cientos de pequeños detalles que hacen cada viñeta una obra en sí misma.
Definitivamente no es para todos pero para mi es perfecto muy a su manera.
May 22, 2020
I loved the web series enough to purchase the hardcover, and purchased the second as well with the authors autograph.
I don't believe in objective reviews, so I'll just say that this is a fantastic book. My favorite aspect about this series is that the characters are so fully developed, trying to live their best lives, despite what the world wants of them.
To quote, "can't a [person] just slut it up in the woods anymore?"
I don't believe in objective reviews, so I'll just say that this is a fantastic book. My favorite aspect about this series is that the characters are so fully developed, trying to live their best lives, despite what the world wants of them.
To quote, "can't a [person] just slut it up in the woods anymore?"
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 19, 2019
The description is wrong, as 287 pages is just Tome One. Tome Two should have its own entry.
Great comic, contains a fascinating plot and a well-built world.
Great comic, contains a fascinating plot and a well-built world.
December 29, 2022
One of the best fantasy comics I've read.
Yes there's porn in it, and it's beautifully drawn.
But it's also funny, tongue in cheek, highly sensual, inclusive, incredibly sexy.
That artist should illustrate roleplaying games and mainstream books too.
But it's far from wasted talent, and I'm so glad Alexis Flower can keep doing this.
I wish I could order the physical book.
Yes there's porn in it, and it's beautifully drawn.
But it's also funny, tongue in cheek, highly sensual, inclusive, incredibly sexy.
That artist should illustrate roleplaying games and mainstream books too.
But it's far from wasted talent, and I'm so glad Alexis Flower can keep doing this.
I wish I could order the physical book.
October 7, 2024
Absolutely beautiful artwork, great characters, and an engaging story, this is Elfquest for adults! (Very adults.)
July 22, 2025
I love the art and the world-building.
December 29, 2024
Hilarious and smutty. Love the art style and the humour. Have no idea where the story is going, which feels exactly like a typical D&D campaign. <3
August 24, 2023
Highly pornographic but its quite funny and sensual.
August 25, 2019
Where to begin? The art is great! Some might call it (art & story) pornographic, but that doesn't take away the beauty of the art! The story is a bit difficult to follow at first, since it is constantly interrupted by sex scenes, but as you keep reading you start to get an idea of what's going on. This first Tome, contains the first three books, that hopefully will continue with many more books! Great humor as well. Definitely a book for adults and the not easily offended, but I can absolutely recommend it!!
August 30, 2019
Witty dialogue, great pacing, and an amazingly rich world that is surprisingly easy to get into.
June 22, 2020
Wow
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