The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of THE SHADOW GLASS #1 from Dark Horse Comics. Aly Fell writes, draws and colors, and Nate
Piekos letters.
Rosalind is a teenage girl in Elizabethan England, and an
unusually independent one. She’s had a happy childhood, with a father of some
means and a teacher like Dr. Dee. On the day she learns that her father is
dying, she also learns that he is not her father at all, and that her real
father is a rogue, and that secrets have been kept from her. She runs to the
good doctor for answers only to be faced with one more surprise.
Young Rose is not your normal child in this time period, but
she’s headstrong and curious enough to make for a great protagonist. There’s
also more than a hint of supernatural in this story, of which the presence of
Dr. Dee is only the beginning, and then there’s the mystery of her mother. And
the art is truly wonderful, with an amazing sense of realism and a color
palette straight out of an English garden.
This first issue gives us the beginning of a
well-constructed historical drama with the promise of something foreboding
underneath. I think this one is going to be a winner.
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
