Starhenge is a Wondrous Blend of Time Travel & Arthurian Magic: Review
Revered artist Liam Sharp proves his talent as a writer too with an epic saga that mixes fantasy and sci-fi in a six-issue series beginning with Starhenge Book One: The Dragon and theBoar, published by Image Comics.This is a passion project for Sharp, who has been working for more than 30 years on this Arthurian epic, before Image finally picked it up. Sharp's artistic roots go back to the world of 1980s sci-fi, when he worked on the legendary magazine 2000 AD drawing many Judge Dredd stories, before moving to Marvel UK, where he authored another legendary sci-fi series, Death's Head II. These influences have been present throughout the creator's career, and they really shine in Starhenge, which could easily be the flagship title of a modern version of 2000 AD.
Starhenge's plot develops throughout three different times. In the far future, humanity is on the verge of extinction at the hands of a race of belligerent A.I.s called the Cast. The only effective weapon in this war used to be magic, something that the Cast could not compute due to being inherently illogical. However, magic has disappeared from the future, along with mankind's best defenders, the Knights of Velt. The ruler of humanity, the Ur-Queen, sends her son, Merlin, back in time to 5th century Britain to prevent the disappearance of magic at the hands of the Cast's agents. The story is told by a present-time teenager and occult fanatic, Amber Weaver, who gets dragged into this centuries-spanning war along with her boyfriend Daryl. This is Sharp's first project published with Image Comics, coming right after his critically acclaimed DC Comics titles Batman: Reptilian, written by Garth Ennis, and Green Lantern, written by Grant Morrison.
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