Image Comics’ D’orc #7 Review: Brett Bean Takes the Fantasy Hit Deep Into the Boglands

D’orc #7 sends Image Comics’ half-dwarf, half-orc outcast into the murky Boglands for a chapter that blends monster-fighting chaos, bruised emotions, sharp comedy, and Brett Bean’s increasingly confident fantasy world-building into one of the series’ most character-driven adventures yet. There is something deceptively simple about D’orc. On the surface, Brett Bean has created a colorful fantasy comedy filled with absurd monsters, bizarre locations, a talking eyeball shield, a ghost chicken, and a young hero who rarely gets enough time to understand one disaster before another comes crashing through the door. Underneath all of that nonsense, however, is a surprisingly sincere story about a kid who desperately wants to understand where he belongs. D’orc #7, titled “A Bit Bogged Down,” leans directly into that emotional core. The issue opens with D’orc, Chicken, and Shield falling into the Boglands after the fallout from the previous chapter, and D’orc is carrying more than bruises from the trip. What he has recently learned about his family has rattled him, leaving the normally resilient adventurer trying to process questions he does not yet know how to answer. Then, because this is ...