Balder, Rob; Noguchi, Jamie -- The Battle for Gobwin Knob (Erfworld, book 1)
The first collection of the Erfworld webcomic. A wargamer grognard
from our world is snatched, Cheeto stains and all, into a fantasy
kingdom at war. The gag is that Erfworld's laws of nature are
wargame rules -- territories are hexagonal, every sentient creature
has stats, and you can only attack in turn order. Everything, but
everything, is a terrible pop-culture pun. So the gimmick is that,
despite this, it is all completely serious: the creatures there live
out their lives with the hopes and concerns and terrors (and sometimes
terrible jokes) of any fictional or real world. The author carries it
all off pretty well. Since it's a webcomic, you can read it all
online, so don't take my word for it.
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