Title: Marblegate
Author: Rocktopus
Rating: PG
Genre: Fantasy/Action/Adventure/Dungeons N Dragons
Status: WIP
Fandom: Original Webcomic
Pairings: n/a
Summary:

The story of Marblegate follows a teenage girl named Colleen. She had the unfortunate luck to get the 'Gift' of being a cleric and able to channel healing powers/fixing stuff/light powers and etc, which would hurt at first but with continual practice she's able to improve until there's no danger/pain unless she over-channels it. She joins the church in order to avoid being pressed into any nobles power and then decides to go off and adventure. To Marblegate, a massive ancient dungeon that's been around for a so long that no one quite knows when it first appeared and periodically it shows up for a hundred years and allows adventurers in, then disappears again. In Colleen's time, the dungeon has been around for 75 years.

Anyways, the webcomic focuses on Colleen's dive into the mega dungeon along with her companion Randulf who is a constantly drunk dwarf that's a veteran of diving into Marblegate specifically.

Cons: The art style didn't really grow on me until a bit into it and the update pace of posting on Mondays and Fridays isn't really fast enough to keep up the interest of looking at it weekly. That's a common problem of webcomics though and I respect the dedication of the author and admire the level of detail they put in every page.

It's a bit short so far with a prologue and 6 chapters, but that's 226 pages in and ongoing since 2016 when it started. The plots moved far enough in that I feel it's worth it to post here, oh and the author has said it's inspired by roleplaying games, rougelikes, and western fantasy stories. And those influences are fairly obvious and again the level of detail they put into the pages is quite nice, it sometimes takes me a few glances over to notice small touches.

Link:http://marblegate.webcomic.ws/comics/first/

Trailer:


I really like it so far and it's fairly engrossing, I give it a 4/5.

 

I think this should perhaps be in Original Fiction, but don't quote me on that.

Pretty enjoyable, actually. I've read the whole thing in about two hours; I'm not a massive fan of the art, but it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, just not my personal cup of tea. The writing is more impressive. Colleen is a likeable lead, and I'm warming up to Randulf. Marblegate itself is an interesting concept, and the current backstory chapter is looking intriguing as well - although I'm assuming that the knight is going to turn out to be more of a jerk than he currently appears. Maybe I'm just being cynical.

All that said, while I would read more of it, I think it's more one to bookmark and binge every few months rather than check out each individual update.

4/5