I really enjoyed the way Gillen subverts the classic Arthurian myth and approaches the story from a different angle. It’s imaginative, exciting and funny, with some well-written witty banter between the two main characters, Duncan and his kick-ass grandmother Bridgette.

Once & Future is a very entertaining story. The author goes on to ask, what if the return of King Arthur causes Britain’s darkest hour? It’s a great concept and one which the creators go on to explore as the story progresses. There’s something about that prophecy that always rubbed me up the wrong way… Never trust a prophecy that can be taken in two ways.” “He’s said to return in Britain’s darkest hour. The legend suggests that King Arthur will return in Britain’s hour of need. But what I really appreciated about this story was the way Gillen flips the traditional myth of King Arthur and poses a whole new set of questions about what it may mean today. On picking up a huge gun with what appear to be spikes attached to it, Duncan asks: Wondering what on earth is going on, Duncan takes over and opens the trapdoor revealing a stash of weapons. She is trying to open a trapdoor in the ground.

He gets a call from her one evening and goes out to meet her in the middle of a forest. Her grandson, Duncan, has no idea about his gran’s “credentials”.

Bridgette McGuire is a retired monster hunter. Well, look no further than Kieron Gillen & Dan Moras’ Once & Future. Some might say there aren’t enough “strong female characters” in comics these days. When a group of Nationalists use an ancient artifact to bring a villain from Arthurian myth back from the dead to gain power, ex-monster hunter Bridgette McGuire escapes her retirement home and pulls her unsuspecting grandson Duncan, a museum curator, into a world of magic and mysticism to defeat a legendary threat.

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