I love it when a story comes together, and that’s exactly what happens in the last volume of FARLAINE THE GOBLIN, THE FINAL LAND, an oversized 68-page black & white comic by cartoonist Pug Grumble (available at www.farlaine.com).

By now, you may know the story – a forest goblin and his shrub are on a quest to find a forest he can devote himself to protecting forever, but instead find friends, enemies, and all kinds of complications.

In the final volume, Farlaine finds himself back in the land he visited in Book 1 – the Tinklands, home of a race of mechanical beings. But things are a little different in the Tinklands now. With all of the Tinks gone, the land is up for grabs, and various factions are trying to claim it as their own, illuminating how lands are created and changed in the fantasy world of Farlaine.

The methods for manipulating the very metaphysics of a land is inventive, but what I really love about this volume is how neatly it ties together the entire story. It really does come full circle, and we see the payoff of plot elements introduced the entire way, particularly those in the first volume. And at the end we learn that maybe the quest wasn’t about finding a forest after all. But I won’t spoil it.

In any case, I can’t wait to read the entire thing over to make sure I didn’t miss anything. And what was great was while I was reading the story on my laptop, my kids started asking me all kinds of questions about it, and to read it to them. “Who’s this guy?” “What is he saying?” I explained to them that there were things being referenced from earlier in the story and then they made me start reading it to them from the beginning of Volume 1!

It’s rare that my kids are so interested in a comic, particularly one that involves an IP that doesn’t originate in multimedia, but adults will enjoy Farlaine as well if you have any sense of whimsy left at all.

As with the other volumes, I highly recommend Book 7. It gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling you get when a story comes together perfectly.

Available at www.farlaine.com.

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