Lady Pendragon Vol. 1

Lady Pendragon Volume 1 by Matt Hawkins Art By: Ron Adrian, Hector Gomez, John StinsmaHave you ever seen the movie Camelot? Maybe you're read about Sir Arthur and the Knight's Round Table? If not, this graphic novel will fill you in on some of the plot of that story. If you did, you won't recognize the women. They're all long, lean, and full of vigor. The warrior women in this story are all beautiful and partially clad.Image Comics let me read this graphic novel for review (thank you). It has just been published and you can grab a copy HERE.I like hard hitting graphic novels and strong women characters. You've got both in this collection. This is a mix of past and present and gods and man and good and evil. There's war going on, one country is always trying to conquer another, and there are traitors in the midst.When Lady Pendragon takes command, the soldier who wanted the position works with her opposition. The priest is not who he appears to be. Lancelot keeps returning to life in other times and dying again. Mordred is still on the loose.This is busy series with times mixing together and the legends of the past coming alive again. It was an interesting read with luscious looking women and buckets of blood. Graphic novels are just that but they're fun to read. Give it a try.

The introduction introduces us to Lady Pendragon aka Guinevere, heir to Excalibur, and how she has to fight against Saxons and her own kind.We then flash forward to our era and Jennifer Drake, a scholar specialising in the life of Guinevere. She is kidnapped so that she can become the new Lady Pendragon and deal with Morgana Le Fey and Mordred again. Lots of flashbacks reveal how Guinevere fared.Very wordy with explanation and angst in places, it is a good read with a science fiction element at the end.

This is pretty much 90's era Image garbage. It's so wordy and full of exposition, your focus starts drifting on to the next page, like "Are they done talking yet?". The men are in full armor while the women fight in one piece bathing suits, and the armor must make all the women cold by the way they are drawn (very perky). Some of the actual dialog was "my faithful computer" and "one such as yourself could defeat a man of pure Aryan stock". Who talks like this? The book keeps switching between three different times but with little indication of which one the story is currently in. A different art style or coloring technique with each era would have served the story better.

The connection between past, present and future is really good between the characters in this graphic novel, good artwork and story, coloring is top class. But one minus point... The story doesn't end in this tpb vol1, it needs proper closure, and it doesn't have vol2 yet.