"This story took place in a kingdom called El Vosque. A kingdom full of life, full of death, with lots of trees. This story, as all good stories do, started with a murder. A simple murder, that only involved the assassin and the victim. A crime, nevertheless, with lots of ramifications. A murderer with a very simple weapon. A victim with lots of ramifications."
El Vosque
is a spanish fantasy webcomic written by Morán, better known by his other webcomic ¡Eh, Tío! (or maybe not so much anymore), and drawn by Laurielle. Launched in 2009, it is available in English [1] (although the story is less advanced) and is set in an original medieval fantasy universe.
The comic begins with the murder of the Ancient Elm (seriously) followed by the police investigation and the political problems generated by its death.
Contains examples of:
- Always Identical Twins: Quent and The Cat, also known as the murderer.
- "Ass" in Ambassador: The Other Kingdom's ambassador is one of the main villains.
- Bad Ass Book Worm: Quent Nitrate. He is alchemist, a specialist in explosives and still retains all extremities despite using his explosive marbles in combat.
- Death by Falling Over: The murderer twice (he got better)
- Delayed Reaction: Robert, he has three in the same scene one after another. The problem is when the whole blacksmith is going to explode and he is still thinking about the previous problem.
- Evil Twin: The Cat is Quent's evil twin
- Half-Human Hybrid: Flora Minor is a Subversion. Her father was a tree and her mother was the goddess Gaia.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The elves's Improbable Aiming Skills tend to be directed towards elves.
- Lost in Translation:
- The alias of the Forest Guard. In the original Spanish they are called maderos, which is the slang word for cops but it also means timbers.
- El bosque with letter B means The forest.
- One of the characteristic animals of El Vosque is the cerdílope which is the union of cerdo/pig and antílope/antelope.
- Magic Is Evil: Unnatural magic is banned and persecuted. Natural magic is another thing.
- Our Elves Are Different: They think that but they aren’t so different except for being lousy shooters and anthropophagous (well, they actually not only eat human flesh, you understand what I mean)
- Our Fairies Are Different: They have wings, they are small but they seem not to grant wishes unless you want to compete with Calderilla/Cash in a shot glasses tournament. And they turn into flowers when they die.
- Protection Mission: The tree is not the last target...
- Resurrective Immortality: The murderer. Not known as The Cat for nothing.
- Series Mascot: Calderilla/Cash when it is not Cerdílope in his
woobie version. - The Dog Was the Mastermind: Even if the Big Bad is nothing less than a king, he seems much more inoffensive than he really is.
