While DIE, Gillen’s Image Comics series with Stephanie Hans, serves as a measured deconstruction of the fantasy genre as a whole, Once And Future leans right into these established tropes, creating a sparkling first issue that feels by turns light-hearted and serious, intimate and epic, and which had me absolutely hooked from the first few pages onwards. Taken in isolation, the credentials of this particular creative team are pretty much unquestioned, but bringing them together here results in something rather special. When the excavation of a mysterious fifth century scabbard leads to bloodshed, Bridgette decides to let her grandson in on the shocking realities of the world, and of the Arthurian prophecy that promises to bring England to its knees. This new series, set in modern day England, introduces us to Duncan McGuire, a clumsy, well-meaning and fairly likeable academic and his aging grandmother Bridgette, who harbours a fairly unexpected secret. And the idea of pairing him with the striking visual stylings of BOOM! Studios stalwart Dan Mora and colourist extraordinaire Tamra Bonvillain only cements the ‘can’t miss’ credentials of new fantasy series Once And Future, on sale today. If you’re compiling a list of comic book writers whose name on the cover can be taken as an absolute guarantee of some quality storytelling, Keiron Gillen has to be right near the top.
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