{"title":"Syd Madia","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"hero-cave-by-syd-madia","title":"Hero Cave by Syd Madia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen the hero continues on their quest, the vanquished dust themselves off and get ready for work the next day. \u003cem\u003eHero Cave\u003c\/em\u003e is a dungeon fantasy comic book for the rats, skeletons, and low-level monsters of the underworld.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSkeleton has a pretty easy gig: scare the adventurers that visit Hero Cave, get killed, get back up to do it all again. But there’s only so many times you can be slain and revived before it gets old. They're losing passion for the job and yearning to finally rest in peace. After a poor performance review with the dungeon’s sinister wizard, Skeleton spirals further into an existential crisis and wild frenzy. Is this all there is for them? Can they really be alive in an undead body? 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With cheeky humor, liminal beauty, and a looming absence of what used to be, you’ll be laughing, crying and yelling ‘workers rights for skeletons!!’ all the way till the end.” – Madeline Mouse, \u003cem\u003eBelly Full of Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s impossible not to get sucked in by the warp and woof of Syd Madia’s exuberant, funky linework! Many will find our hero’s plight all too familiar, trapped eternally in an (un)dead-end job lining the coffers of a goofy, sociopathic boss. 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