NEVER MAKE A GIANT MAD

A kid and his purple friend reunite for another trip to the Land of the Trolls.

Felix, a redheaded White boy, has a portal to a world of trolls in his bedroom toy box. As he searches his messy room for Robocan, his remote-controlled dog, he falls into the other world. But we’ve been here before. In this sequel, Felix is soon paired back up with Calcite the troll on a quest to find the robot. They meet Tourmaline, the great troll witch; ride a flying Rockadactyl (a pterodactyl made of stone), and escape the laser eye beams of Garganto, a giant guardian blocking the way through a gorge. Unsurprisingly, Robocan shows up to help, and Felix ends up back home with another this-happened-then-this-happened story under his belt. In its attempt to widen the world of Felix and Calcite from the first volume, this book instead repeats most of the beats and tries to make up for its thin story with fantasy elements that never feel particularly clever, original, or visually interesting. Felix has no personality, and in this book, at least, Calcite doesn’t do much but tag along on Felix’s quest. Games such as an invitation to search the cartoon artwork for a hidden spider begin and end the book.

An uninspired installment in an equally uninteresting graphic-fantasy series.