Review: Tales from the House of Morecock Vol. 1

The artist of Adventures of a Joe Boy is back at the German gay publisher Bruno Gmünder for the adaptation of his very entertaining DVD The House Of Morecock, a collection of short animated stories humorously blending fantasy and gay porn.
This first volume adapts five of the DVD stories, plus one all-new story. Jonas Morecock is a worldwide traveller who always manages to meet interesting men… or more exactly, men interested in him. Men, and various fantasy characters like werewolves, ghosts and mermen (merboys?). It’s all in good fun, with none of the violence and angst present in a lot of other gay porn comics.

Joe Phillips‘s art for this House of Morecock¹ book is not always as detailed here as in his other strips, since it’s an adaptation of an animated series, and the line art is also often simpler, but it’s still full of life and energy, as well as gorgeous men of varied ethnicity, which is really nice.
There’s a lot of humor in between the explicit romp of each episode, and that light, happy and completely unrealistic atmosphere is what sets Jonas Morecock’s stories apart from most other porn comics.