The aforementioned opening pages – all misty fogs and spectral imagery, beautifully enhanced by Tamra Bonvillain’s colours – captures this quieter moment beautifully, while depicting the natural beauty of England as well as the palatial, albeit it destroyed, Houses of Parliament magnificently.Įd Dukeshire’s carefully considered lettering – assigning various characters their own appropriate font and speech balloon design, also has a big part to play in the whole aesthetic of this book and it’s something I often forget to point out. To learn more about this characters nature and evolution, why not check out my Arthurian Annotations on this very subject here?ĭan Mora continues to astound on the art front. From bard to magician, half-demon, half-human. And while there is much pace to this issue, there are other moments too, that give the reader pause for thought, No more so than Mary’s exchange with Merlin who seems somewhat adrift of his own part in the legend of King Arthur and how he has also evolved over the centuries.
We move from a misty, evocative opening in which Mary wilfully plays the part of Nimue and calls forth the hoary-looking sisters of the lake so she can wield Excalibur, to the ethereal court of the Celtic King Arthur and beyond as the pace starts to quicken with each turn of the page and Bridgette et.al. Although said mother, Bridgette, is not ready to fly trust her daughter yet. Indeed, Kieron Gillen allows Mary to make use of these roles to empower herself and begin to set in motions a plan to restore the United Kingdom along with her mother, whom she is slowly begin to bond with once more. Roles, it is worth mentioning, often assigned to her by men. But, unlike these would-be once and future kings, Mary is no longer trapped in any particular role, as we have seen her in the past.
With only three issue left to go in this fantasy horror series, we begin to see Mary coming forward as one of the driving forces behind the forthcoming climax involving the three Arthurs currently battling it out for supremacy.
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