Fan flipping tastic
This was awesome! Well worth the wait. The animation is terrific and it seems you've improved a fair amount from the first episode, which looked great, but this one felt smoother. The only kink in the animation that I really noticed was that in a couple scenes the backgrounds felt flat, especially in comparison with some of the others you've used; but this wasn't a common problem.
Obviously it's the humour where this shines. Episode 1 and 1.5 were both very funny (1.5 struck a chord with me seeing as I lived in Utah for a looong time) but this was more than funny; this was downright hilarious. I have a thing for dark humour and it is nice to see dark humour executed so well and with a fantasy theme as well.
Dark humour seems to be hard for people to succeed in because some people make it too soft and others make it a bit *too* sadistic. It can also be said it usually seems to have a suitably darker genre (I.E. Horror or suspense thriller) that it latches on to or satirizes than a swords and sorcery fantasy adventure, so you get points for having a unique combo as well. You did it right and it's been a long time since I've laughed this hard, and my evening is certainly a lot nicer now.
So all in all this was great. It looked great, sounded great, and was funny as hell. I can tell that you put a lot of effort into this and practically none of the effort was wasted. My wife enjoyed it too. I'm adding this to my favourites and I look forward to Episode 3.
-Kadath & Chie (TeamCroutons)