I totally underestimated this comic.
I got this comic, both this original and the variant covers, in a lot of "Bad Girl" comics. These were comics, following in the tradition of the Warren Vampirella magazines, whose main characters were often voluptuous women clad in only the barest hint of a costume. Just like the lady up there on the cover. Probably the best modern example of the genre is Lady Death from Chaos! Comics. The propensity to show skin isn't always a sign that the comic will be bad, but it very often is. Unlike something like Kill La Kill, where the pace of the show, and it's all round insanity, allows one to look past the equally ridiculous portrayals of nudity and sexuality. But a comic doesn't move that fast, and in these kinds of comics, the rest of the world is relatively rational, if not normal. It's just the main character that runs around in a little less than a bikini all the time.
However, in the case of Cauldron, that voluptuous lady on the cover shows for about 4 pages, and the main character is actually an ancient, withered crone who has been locked in a dungeon for years. The tale appears to be about this old witch and a similarly aged wizard attempting to find an artifact to defeat an evil ruler. There's also a couple of pages set in our world, probably setting up the contemporary focal characters that would be participating in the story. I say probably, because although a second issue is advertised, it apparently never materialized. This is a shame, because this is a really beautiful, and well-told, story. The art is all painted, and the same kind of care that is lavished on the "bad girl" on the cover is lavished upon all of the characters. In fact, the costume she wears even makes sense, sort of, in the context of the story.
Well, Ulna (that's the witch, who ends up in our reality at the story's end), I hope you managed to find the Necrogon and defeat Lord Vile. In my head, it all worked out somehow.
More to come...
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