![]() ![]() The youthful Peter Parquagh is taken under the tutelage of the Queen’s spymaster Nicholas Fury. ![]() Matt Murdoch is cavalier minstrel employing his athleticism in the service of the crown, and using his seeming blindness to catch enemies off-guard. Some are very well concealed, others lacking any superhuman abilities, and others still endearingly re-cast. Every other non-historical character is an iteration of a Marvel standby who first appeared in 1964 or earlier. With the exception of a character resembling Snowbird from the 1980s Alpha Flight, Gaiman restricted his cast to he first flush of Marvel heroes and villains. This is a well-written alternate world superhero story from an intelligent writer who’s carried out some research, but no more. This was Neil Gaiman returning to write his first comics in years, but those expecting the depth of his previous work are likely to be very disappointed. It’s difficult to remove 1602 from the event it was promoted as. ![]()
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