You can’t hear once and future and not think of King Arthur. But you probably haven’t heard a version of his story quite like this one. Or maybe you have, I don’t know, the man is a semifictional creation, so there are plenty of stories about him out there. But in this comic book reimagining he is brought back to life in a way that he is…well, very menacing, let’s say that.
So there you go, right away you have an excellent historical semifiction/fantasy blend, mythical objects uncovered, danger reawakened, etc. What stands between the danger and the world is an intrepid team of young clueless young man and his awesome grandma. After all the years spent together, Duncan McGuire has to learn on the quick that his granny is a retired monster slayer and get clued into the family business. It’s a fun story well told and I really enjoyed Dan Mora’s art, because it seems I really, really enjoy classic (traiditonal?conventional?) comic book art, not very original, sure, but it just has such a great look to it, all slick and high gloss with people who look like people, albeit obscenely attractive, and places that look like real places, albeit, again, obscenely attractive. I didn’t love it through and had to ponder why. Especially since it had all the right elements to win me over. And I’ve decided that it’s because in the end it was just another monster hunting story and those tend to get old, much like Grimm, the show I watched to the end, but with increasing disinterest and reluctance. So for all its high gloss slickness, it is an all too familiar thing. But then again it’s fun, having not yet had the time to outstay its welcome, so I enjoyed it enough and wouldn’t be opposed to maybe someday checking out more of the series, if only for the Granny McGuire, by far the best thing about this production.
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