Tiger Lung

Thirty-five thousand years ago, the world was ruled by strange beasts and ancient gods! For some Paleolithic tribes, hope lay in the shaman warriors who stood between them and the unknown. Tiger Lung follows the struggle of one of these shamans to keep his people alive in a vast, hostile universe!

There is so much about the everyday lives of our ancestors from the “caveman” era we just can’t know for sure.  Granted, we can deduce enough about it to allow us to try and think about the primitive existence.  What about things that science most likely won’t look into?  That’s exactly what is explored in Tiger Lung and it’s probably far more interesting than what you read in Ancient History class.

Within pages of this prehistoric setting, we follow three separate stories of a shaman by the name of Tiger Lung.  The first story is a collection of three Dark Horse Presents issues which show us Tiger earning his place as a shaman within his tribe.  This along with the two additional stories as you would imagine feature a lot of interaction with the supernatural, mostly spirits and beings from nature.  How much of this is based on fact from that time is really up for debate, but it does give us a glimpse of what humans at least believed back then.

 Although we have three different stories within, Simon Roy takes charge as both writer and artist on all of them.  With color assists by Jason Wordie on two of the three tales, the pair of artists gives a good look into this ancient world.  Whether the rougher style was specifically used here I can’t say for sure, but it definitely works well here.  Sketches and designs at the end were as always a welcome bonus.

Having just read another book based in a primitive world, it was fun seeing this darker side of how things may have been back then.  Again, whether you believe shamans used to face off against evil spirits is for everyone to decide on their own.  Either way, I can at least help you decide on if you should grab this book by saying that you should.

For more on Tiger Lung or other Dark Horse titles, check out Dark Horse Comics.

Tiger Lung will be available 12/3

Geek-o-Rama received a copy of this book for the purpose of this review. All thoughts, comments and opinions are those of the individual reviewer.