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Lädt ... Once & Future Book One Deluxe Editionvon Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora (Illustrator)
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Gehört zur ReiheOnce & Future {2019-2022} (1-18) BeinhaltetOnce & Future #1 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #2 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #3 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #5 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #6 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #4 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #7 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #8 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #9 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #10 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #11 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #12 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #13 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #14 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #15 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #16 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #17 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt) Once & Future #18 von Kieron Gillen (indirekt)
The definitive collection of the first three story arcs of the Eisner Award-nominated series collected for the first time in a single deluxe hardcover. WHAT IF ALL THE LEGENDS ARE TRUE? Retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire knows that they are. And when a group of Nationalists uncover the fabled scabbard of Excalibur in order to bring King Arthur back from the dead to reclaim England, she will be the only one who can stop them. In order to do so, she'll need to pull her unsuspecting academic grandson, Duncan, into a deadly world of myth and prophecy. Their quest will lead them to confront the complicated history of their family, confront the deadly secrets of England's past, and throw the Otherworld into shambles, allowing for new legends and characters to make their appearance--and bring a world of trouble along with them. The definitive collection of the first two story arcs of the Eisner Award-nominated series for the first time in a single volume, this deluxe edition hardcover includes Once & Future #1-18 by New York Times Bestselling author, Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine), and Russ Manning Award Winner, Dan Mora (Detective Comics). Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Like a lot of Kieron Gillen comics, it's pretty good but it reads as though it could have been better, like it could have done more with its premise and its characters than it ended up doing. Once & Future has two big strengths; one is the way it uses its very concept to interrogate the idea of British identity. In the first volume, King Arthur is brought back by Anglo-Saxon supremacists... but what they've forgotten is that Arthur wasn't Anglo-Saxon, he was a Briton who fought off Saxons! So he turns on them and begins expunging what he sees as invaders from Britain. Bits like this recur throughout the series, deft moments of pointing out the way the stories we glom onto culturally often don't actually say what we imagine they do. A lot of the time the story is about the conflicts between different versions of the Arthur mythos, the early medieval version clashing with the later one; there's some fun stuff with Beowulf in volume two. The particular highlight in this regard is Boris Johnson's hilarious cameo.
The other highlight is the character of Bridgette McGuire, the retired monster hunter, a grandmother who gives no shits about your feelings and will do anything to anyone—including her beloved grandson—to keep Britain safe. As Gillen points out in the series afterword, she's the kind of character who can be a vehicle for adventures forever, but that doesn't stop her from developing and changing in ways both small and big over the course of the series. I always enjoyed her shenanigans and dialogue.
I reviewed the series as a whole under its final volume.