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Once & Future: The King Is Undead (2019) — Illustrator — 223 Exemplare
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1: High School Is Hell (2019) — Illustrator — 158 Exemplare
Klaus (2016) — Illustrator — 114 Exemplare
Once & Future: Old English (2020) — Illustrator — 112 Exemplare
Once & Future: The Parliament of Magpies (2021) — Illustrator — 84 Exemplare
Once & Future: Monarchies in the U.K. (2022) — Illustrator — 55 Exemplare
Once & Future: The Wasteland (2023) — Illustrator — 36 Exemplare
Once & Future Book One Deluxe Edition (2021) — Illustrator — 34 Exemplare
Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Vol. 1: The Devil Nezha (2023) — Illustrator — 28 Exemplare
Klaus #1 (2015) — Vorwort — 10 Exemplare
Klaus #7 (2016) — Illustrator — 4 Exemplare
Klaus #4 (2016) — Illustrator — 4 Exemplare
Klaus #3 (2016) — Illustrator — 4 Exemplare
Klaus #6 (2016) — Illustrator — 3 Exemplare
Klaus #5 (2016) — Illustrator — 3 Exemplare
Klaus #2 (2015) — Illustrator — 3 Exemplare
Hexed #1 3 Exemplare
Hexed #2 1 Exemplar

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2020) — Umschlagillustration — 18 Exemplare
Teen Titans (2016-) #14 (2017) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben4 Exemplare
The Flash/Speed Buggy Special #1 — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben3 Exemplare
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (of 5) (2019) — Umschlagillustration — 3 Exemplare
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Once & Future is a recently concluded thirty-issue comic series from Boom!, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Dan Mora (with Tamra Bonvillain on colors). It concerns an attempt by a sort of undead King Arthur and Merlin to reinscribe themselves on Britain; the main character is a modernist academic who discovers that the grandmother who raised him is Britain's chief monster hunter—and that he's inherited her story.

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.
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Stevil2001 | 1 weitere Rezension | Jan 19, 2024 |
This review is for the series as a whole. See my review of the beginning here.

The series ultimately doesn't do enough with its interesting premise. There's a lot of big action sequences, and certainly Dan Mora does a great job illustrating them, but it felt to me like Kieron Gillen spent more time asking "how could this mythological idea be used to make a comic book action set piece?" than he spent asking "what does the Arthurian mythos tell us about modern Britain?" I loved those moments, like I said above... but honestly, there just weren't enough of them across the series's thirty issues. At time the overlapping mythologies get confusing, and not in a good way; I don't think the series adequately delineates the difference between the multiple Arthurs, for example, and some of it gets wacky. Why would Tennyson's Arthur be steampunk!? The last volume feels like Gillen thought the series was going to run another thirty issues but was suddenly given only six to wrap it all up... I was surprised to learn from the afterword that he actually had twenty-four more issues than he originally thought he was getting!

I also felt that Duncan and Rose, the ostensible leads, deserved more of a character throughline than they ended up getting. They often end up feeling along for the ride, and I wanted a stronger sense of their development and choices in the face of all the weird things they go through.

Other than some of the jumpy issues near the end, it is (as Gillen-penned comics usually are) a pretty smooth read. There's a number of clever ideas in here. Mora's art gets a bit too grotesque at times but is usually excellent; Tamra Bonvillain is a revelation on colors. But I can't help feeling there's another version of this story that consistently treats its mythology as something to be interrogated rather than as a basis for clever set pieces.

Plus to name your final volume "The Wasteland" but then claim the poem was written by "T. S. Elliot" is a pretty unforgivable mistake!
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Stevil2001 | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 19, 2024 |
was enthralled by volume 1, and somewhat meh about Volume 2.

Volume three brought back the complete batshittery of volume one, and actually gave Rose some interesting roles to play. Originally Bridgette was my favourite character, but I've definitely shifted to Rose, who has a complex role to play across all of the story (not Anglo Saxon; will they be driven out of England as well?)

I'm going for 4.5 stars (instead of five), because of the number of times I went 'oh, FFS' about something in the story was Too Many. The world building continues to be baffling but fascinating, the plot mostly good (although I'm mostly not even attempting to work out what the plot is doing at any given time), the characters are at least interesting even if I'm not invested in any of them, and the story has its hooks in to me and drags me merrily along page to page.… (mehr)
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fred_mouse | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 25, 2023 |
*A Thank you to NetGalley, The Author, and Publisher for allowing me to read this for an honest and unbiased Review*

I've been reading too much during this quarantine, but I just can't stop (isn't that a good thing?) I did take a week off for finals but alas I am back and with another review. Considering that you saw the rating you can really tell I loved this. I read it in one sitting from start to finish and I could not stop! Now, I am going to try to give my review without giving things away which is going to be hard because I want to talk about it hard but here goes...

First things first, I am so glad that my grandmother is not Bridgette McGuire! I don't know how Duncan handled things, considering everything that happened. Bridgette is a gun totting bad-ass, wait maybe I do want her to be my grandmother. She is a shoot first ask questions later type of gal. One thing I will say is that Gillen really showed the consequences of being this way.. one of the last moments breaks my heart a bit but I couldn't feel bad for Bridgette considering how she acted.

Duncan was adorable, and I absolutely love him. I don't think I remember a time that I immediately liked a character at first page/panel but I did with Duncan. A true good guy and the complete light to Bridgette's dark. I love the lore that Gillen sets up with this, and if your a history buff that loves King Arthur's story that you definitely need to check this out.

Mora's illustrations really blended well with Gillen's writing. He really set the dark tones when needed, but also made sure not to give too much away. I'm not a illustrator (I can barely draw a stick figure) but I know that drawing action and making it look good is hard to do. Also, let me say that nothing was overtly sexual, but there was some blood so keep that in mind.

Overall, I really loved this and I can't wait to see where this goes.
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latteslipsticklit | 13 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 16, 2023 |

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