Award-winning Transformers writer Daniel Warren Johnson brings guns to a sword fight with his new fantasy series The Moon is Following Us
Aug. 2, 2024First spoiler-free impressions of the new series
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As the new series is still a few months out we can’t get into spoilers yet – which is a shame, as this is a first issue that waits until its final few pages before really playing its hand – but we can share our initial impressions of what seems to be a very interesting new fantasy comic…
The Moon is Following Us #1 throws us in at the deep end by introducing us to three characters – a man, a woman, and some sort of anthropomorphic frog thing wearing a crown – planning a raid on a fortress. We quickly learn that this is a rescue mission: the two humans (Duncan and Samantha) are a married couple and they are trying to save their daughter from a mysterious foes known as the Cascade. Mr Frog is called Brio, incidentally.
The book wears its D&D influences on its sleeve right from the off. This is a colorful tale full of sinister castles, winding mountainous paths, sinister traders, and very nasty monsters. It immediately subverts these fantasy tropes, however, by making it clear that Duncan and Samantha are from… elsewhere. While their enemies have swords and axes, the humans wield machine guns and rocket launchers. A brief flashback to their daughter also throws into question the precise nature of this reality.
Rest assured that you do getsomeanswers by the end of the first issue, but in a manner that poses more questions for the series to unravel. There’s certainly a lot more going on here than just a simple quest narrative.
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The Moon Is Following Us #1 is published by Image Comics on September 18.
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