When Henrietta Achilles , the champion of Haiko Hörnig ’s webcomicA House Divided , learn that she has inherited the estate of her “ uncle , ” she ’s understandably shady . After all , she ’s never hear of him . But that ’s the least of her concerns when she register up at the theater and key there ’s a war going on .
A House Divided is just getting started , but it ’s already great fun . Henrietta lost her parents in the Old Grand War and has been living in an orphans' asylum ever since — at least until she ’s brought to Malrenard ( “ A Livable Place ” ) and tell that she ’s an heiress . She ’s also differentiate that she had an uncle she never knew about , a noted wizard by the name of Ornun Zol . Henrietta does n’t trust a countersign of it , and she quickly realizes that there is something that the people of Malrednard are not telling her .
Then she see the house .
Sure it ’s heroic . Sure it ’s got the cool library Henrietta ’s ever seen . But it ’s also rumored to be home to a expectant treasure , one that has spark off a war .
It ’s a very silly state of war . Hörnig has a not bad mother wit of comic timing , and he pairs the visual humor with a fine snatch of absurdity . The parties are n’t just fighting over the theorize treasure ; they ’re fighting over everything in the mansion , down to the food in the kitchen . And Henrietta has just jump into the affray . There ’s sure to be a pile of zaniness before she figures out the mystery of Ornun Zol , his menage , and whether she ’s actually related to him .
Discovered viaKate Beaton .
[ A House divide — Also useable onTapastic . ]
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