The protagonist of Justin Peniston and William Orr ’s webcomicHunter Blackwas once an assassin whose preferred weapon system was the fore , until an act of treason put him in the path of a mystical , revenge - thirsty brand . Now he ’s obsessed with his own quest for revenge — if his many enemies do n’t pop him first .
Hunter Black made his sustenance as an archer for hire , vote down anyone he was paid to kill . But he was betrayed by someone penny-pinching to him and post to the Hell Pyramid , a mortal prison that few citizenry elude from . Hunter was one of those supposedly lucky few , but his metre in the prison house left him with a waste malady . On his way to freedom , however , Hunter come to own the Revenger , a potent steel that stretch Hunter ’s life history , but only if he wets its blade in the blood of a two-timer .
The job is that Hunter is neither a fencer nor an expert in secret doo - dads . The latter induce him no remnant of problem , since Hunter does n’t know the rules of his weapon . What happen if he use the sword to vote down someone who has n’t committed a betrayal ? What if he use it against someone who betrayed him personally ? What if he uses it to commit a treason ? Magic has rules , and rubbing up against those rule has consequences .
Orion may have trivial patient for such rules , but he respects battle and realize he need a teacher to cultivate him to wield his sword . It ’s vindicated that , before Hunter can get his own retaliation , he ’ll accumulate plenty more betrayals to avenge .
Hunter Black is billed as “ hard - churn fantasy , ” but between Peniston ’s penning and Orr ’s art , the comedian never forgets the fun . This is a domain filled with criminal offence foreman , bookies , assassins , ambitious swordsmen more interested in money than acquirement , pirates , and religious extremist , but there ’s plenty of wit amidst the grim . It help that Hunter himself is a number of a wry blighter . Doom may be hanging over his head , but he ’s still very much live in this strange world , and he has plenty of things to say about it .
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