More about Brent Knowles, former BioWare designer and author
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Appeared in: On Spec #73 Summer 2008 Reprinted in A Thousand Faces (2010)
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Reviews
‘A Ragman’s Vow’ by Brent Knowles is a wonderful tale of magical realism, and the best tale in this installment of On Spec. Dan is the creator of a comic book featuring Ragman, a dark superhero who draws his power from the misery of the slums…
The stories of the artist Dan and his character Ragman are told in neat parallel with an ending that may be fantasy and may be luck…
I also liked Claude Lalumiere’s ‘The Sea at Bari’ (Spring), about a man returning to Bari to encounter a childhood memory or obsession; Brent Knowles’ ‘The Ragman’s Vow’ (Summer), about a comic book writer whose character seems to come to life to help him battle his demons; and Marissa K. Lingen’s “Carter Hall Sweeps a Path”, which combines Tam Lin with curling
Read review at Richard Horton’s blog
* Bibliography of Brent Knowles *
