In many stories, some heroes stumble into adventure. They are those people who push on headlong, consistently carving through their path. It seems Toby is the second type: the one where the adventure stumbles upon our hero. Toby and the Magic Pencil #2 is an enjoyable knockabout story that tries to do a lot of …
I’ve read a lot of adventures before, especially classics from well before my time. Lewis Carroll is a favourite, together with Neil Gaiman, L. Frank Baum, and Jonathan Swift. Whimsical adventures are interesting up to a certain degree. Toby and the Magic Pencil #1 try to evoke these tales’ whimsy, which is successful up to …
Set immediately after the first issue, #2 finds Toby and his friends still on the run from his dejected dragon creation (aka ‘The Great Sid Sizzle’). Together they race in search of Toby’s brother Garth, the other half of the magic pencil, and any clues to help locate the brothers‘ missing mother. Quick on the …
Being chosen by your father to receive the coveted family heirloom (a magic pencil) at first might seem the most desirable thing in the world. For Toby, big brother of Garth, trouble quickly arises from his very first sketch. Almost immediately, the boys are drawn into an incredible adventure, set across strange and colourful lands …
