I bought this hoping to receive a comic telling the story of the Haft Khan-e Rostam. What I got was a disjoint connection of scenes from the story with repetition, missing scenes and an incoherent narrative. It’s like someone watched a movie about the Haft Khan then fell asleep and had a dream about it and wrote down the bits they could remember as soon as they woke up.
Contents:
Page 1: Title page. OK. Page 2: “Here begins the First Triel” [sic] Page 3: 3 frames. Repeats exactly the same text as page 2 for some reason, but with different spelling errors. “Rostam, the mighty, rode into the uneknow” [sic] Page 4: “As Rostam journeved [sic] through the Seven Trials, a mighty lion east [sic] its fierce gaze upon him.” Is this still the first trial? Not really clear. Page 5: “Sure enough, the demon of the desert emerged with fury in its eves [sic] and an ax in its han” Page 6: We didn’t find out what happened with the demon but now it has vanished and “in his third trial” Rostam faces a fearsome dragon. Page 7: “On his third trial [is this a different third trial?], Rostam rode on through darkening wood.” This is also about a dragon, even though Rostam already smote the dragon until it was no more. Is this the same dragon or another one? “Rostam held his gleaming blade aloft”. That’s where we leave this challenge, without finding out what happened to the dragon. Page 8: Rostam meets a snake. “Brandishing his sword, Rostam bellowed a challenge to the”. This challenge ends in mid-sentence. Page 9: “His foe vanquished, the White Demon tumbled to the earth” What? First mention of this demon. Where did the demon come from? Was the “foe” the snake or the demon? “Thus did Rostam lead Prince Kavus and his men, at last, from the forsaken cavern.” What? Who is Prince Kavus? First mention of this cavern. Speech bubble “Come, my prince—yaa, you are free” spoken by the prince, not Rostam. Page 10: “Rostam stood in sorrow over the fallen White Div”. Is this the same demon as the one on p.9? Not really clear. Page 11: Back cover with blurb. Page 12: This “12-page comic” has no page 12.
The story is a jumbled mess that makes no sense. Surprise, surprise, this is AI slop. At the bottom of each page is text that says, “Created in Photo-to-PDF One Click Converter. Download here: https://firehawk.ai/phototopdf/”