Once & Future #25 - "The Wasteland," Part 1

[laughing_tree]

My plan was to take things down a gear and do a sort of mystical Walking Dead bit survival horror for a while. And I kind of did… but there’s a moment in this first issue where I looked at the spectacular ultra-high octane berserk action of Dan’s art, and realised that whole grounded thing may have gone out the window. And I love that. -- Kieron Gillen

Comments

[owlbrigade1]

We're into the Warhammer40k era of mythology, I see. I knew Games Workshop would be the end of us all.

I do have to pick up Gran (and Gillen) on their history. People arrived in the land that would be Britain long before it became an island. People arrived before the land bridge was severed.

[blues32]

As a (not so) wise man once said...

"YAAA HA HA HA HOOOEY!"

[lordultimus]

I genuinely don't recall any adaptation I've seen use the deposed noble Robin Hood origin.

[jlbarnett]

I don't follow that much Robin Hood, but don't most versions that call him Robin of Locksley follow the nobility thing?

[viridian5]

I've seen several where he was a noble.

[shakalooloo]

The Errol Flynn version? The Kevin Costner version? The Taron Egerton version?
The 2006 BBC series?

I think only the Russell Crowe version (twelve years old now, yikes) has avoided the noble birth angle, having the hero impersonate a toff instead.

Even the Disney cartoon version doesn't settle either way, handwaving away the origin.

[cainofdreaming]

Mel Brooks version was a noble too.

[owlbrigade1]

The Maid Marian and her Merry Men version was a middle class yuppie who accidentally blundered into the outlaw game, it was very funny. Marian in that show was profoundly working class.

[numeronone]

[morallyambiguousscience]

Maybe this is a weird take, but I am very much over the post apocalyptic angle Once and Future has taken. If anything it's made the series way more predictable and boring.

[shakalooloo]

It does just seem to be a lot of fighting, with each issue just introducing yet another new king and/or monster, no time to really get used to any single one.

[numeronone]

Question: do you live in the UK right now?

Because as someone who does, I personally have been finding this cathartic as hell.

[cygnia]

Kudos to Gran for citing Taskmaster. Greg Davies would approve.