Maybe her walking-out on her life will eventually be revealed to be a dreadful mistake. Nothing about Devyn’s plight is particularly unusual for the first half of one’s twenties, and maybe that’s the point - she thinks everything’s desperately ruined when in fact it’s all perfectly normal. A young woman named Devyn is discontent with the trajectory of her life, her career, her romantic prospects, her parents her job’s a joke, she’s broke, her love life’s DOA. An interesting premise, and I just wish that this book had picked a more interesting universe in which to start. You can jump from one to another, trying out different identities - but you can never return to the ones you left behind. Still the promise of secret wartime missions behind enemy lines, with the added twist of magical fantasy, is intriguing, culminating in a tempting, pulpy cliffhanger for issue 2.īolero imagines a world in which there exist at least 53 parallel universes, and 53 variations on your life. Also left unexplored in this first issue are the relationships between the soldiers and their dragons, which seem to be deeper than just a man and his pet. As it is, the book is shortchanged on time between characters, like the dashing but headstrong “pilot” and his giant placid troll friend. These tropes seem familiar enough that their exposition is perhaps a bit overdone - like holding the audience’s hand a bit too long to explain the World War II dogfights in Star Wars. Most of this introductory issue is spent on familiarizing the audience with the rules of the world: England is called Albion, trolls are vaguely Russian and discriminated against, the Pussians are the bad guys and they’ve got dragons of their own. What if World War I, but magic? In a fantasy universe juuuuuust slightly to the side of our own, a British flying ace and his dragon are shot down and sent to recuperate before a top secret mission lands in their laps.
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