Rex Jargon Junior (R.J. Jr. for short) lives in the small village of Egalliv where his love of puns and word play is sadly under appreciated. He clashes with the less academic kids, and struggles to find a job when his single mother can't pay the rent on their little cottage alone. Eventually he finds a place he fits in at the local bookstore, but just as things are starting to look up Egalliv is attacked by a fire-breathing dragon. R.J.'s father went missing after trying to tame the same beast ten years earlier, so naturally R.J. feels pulled to handle the dragon crisis this time around. His journey into the dangerous forest has more strange twists and turns than even his wild imagination could have predicted. I've been reading this webcomic a page a week since the beginning, and I finally got the beautiful, hardback, self-published first volume in the mail! What a gorgeous book this is! It's full color with end paper maps and a notes section explaining the inception and inspirations for the story. It's a perfect comic to gift to a budding reader; if you know a kid just slightly too young to read The Hobbit, hand them this book first.