Hocus & Pocus: The Legend of Grimm's Woods
The Comic Book You Can Play
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
This middle grade graphic novel series features an interactive pick-a-path storyline, full of puzzles, treasures, fantasy creatures, and gameplay you can enjoy again and again!
Cast spells, solve puzzles, rack up sparkling stars, and train your own magical pet in this graphic novel that you can play just like a role-playing game. Enter a world inspired by favorite fairy tales, complete with gingerbread houses and a girl dressed in red. Readers can play as Hocus (a boy) or Pocus (a girl), choose a magic animal companion, and enter a colorful forest of brain-teasing riddles, magical objects, and unusual characters. Each panel has multiple paths to follow, and a handy tracking sheet helps you keep track of your victories and hard-won possessions, bringing together the classic analog adventure of a tabletop game and the fresh format of a comic book for hours of replayable fun.
HERE’S HOW TO PLAY:
• Select your character and magical pet and begin your quest.
• Numbers are hidden in every panel. Decide where you want to go next, and then flip to the panel with the matching number.
• Solve puzzles, collect supplies, and win stars in your quest for success. The more good deeds you do, the more stars you will find.
• You can play the book again and again, making different choices every time.
Remember, this is no ordinary comic book—what happens next is up to you!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Like Choose Your Own Adventure before it, this new series, Comic Quests, allows readers to make decisions that send the protagonists on a variety of narrative threads. Hocus and Pocus excel in class, where they learn to befriend magical creatures and protect their environment. For their final, they must help two parents locate their two children, John and Margaret, who have disappeared into the Grimm Woods. Now comes the real plot twist: the reader must choose to be either Hocus or Pocus and follow their chosen character's story, making decisions on that character's behalf. Among other adventures, readers can accompany Pocus into a den of wolves or choose to follow Hocus into battle with a giant rat. As they follow the bright, colorful panels and emotive characters, readers can collect artifacts along the way, fill out character sheets, and flip back and forth to enjoy the possible iterations. This series opener takes a simple but enjoyable form, mixing literary autonomy with the traditional role-playing video game the resultant gaming comic promises to delight young decision-makers. Ages 8 12.
