Scott's Take: Once & Future Volume Two: Old English by Kieron Gillen and Illustrator Dan Mora

Once and Future Volume 2: Old English by Kieron Gillen and illustrator Dan Mora is the second volume in the series. I reviewed Once and Future Volume 1: The King Is Undead back last January. I said in the conclusion of that review that this book was on order and that the library system was not accepting holds. Eventually, they did, I did my hold, and it finally came my way.

 

Once and Future Volume 2: Old English continues the story of Duncan and his grandmother, Bridgette McGuire. After the revelations in the first volume, Duncan has lost a lot of his innocence and has become a bitter young man. His relationship with his grandmother is worse than ever. As they attempt to stop the undead King Arthur from enacting his new evil plan, they have a new problem. Beowulf has manifested in the real world. Because Beowulf has manifested, so too has Grendel and his mother, who are also threats.

 

Full of action, the same sense of humor, and incredible art like the first volume makes this another very good read. Both Duncan and his grandmother remain the same great characters they were in the first volume. The bad guys are just as evil as they were in the first volume.  if you enjoyed the first volume you will love this volume. Once and Future Volume 2: Old English has a bit more of a horror tone to it than the first book. Despite that fact, it was not over the top.

 

I highly recommend this series. 

 

The next book in the series, Once & Future Volume 3: The Parliament of Magpies and scheduled to be released in late July. This means with the way things work in the Dallas Library System, I am looking at very late summer or early Fall before I will be able to get my hands on a copy to read.

 

  

 Once & Future Volume One: Old English

Kieron Gillen

https://www.comixology.com/Kieron-Gillen/comics-creator/1864

Illustrator Dan Mora

https://www.behance.net/danmora

Boom Studios

https://www.boom-studios.com/wordpress/

November 2020

ISBN: 978-1-68415-637-5

Paperback (also available in eBook format)

160 Pages

 

 

My reading copy came from the Dunbar Branch of the Dallas Public Library System. 

 

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