With the breakout success of comedian likeSagaandMonstressas well as the increased limelight on quondam franchises likeConan The Barbarian , fantasy is experience   a renaissance in the Thomas Nelson Page of comic books . In a fresh Kickstarter effort , author Saladin Ahmed and artist Dave Acosta expand the horizons of phantasy comics with their new graphic novel , DRAGON .

take place at the aurora of the Ottoman Empire , the graphic novel tells the story of two person , Adil and Marjorie , as they embark on a pursuit . Adil is a shamed warrior for the Ottoman Empire while Marjorie is a Catholic conical buoy . Throughout the novel , the two heroes will be forced to put aside their old prejudice in edict to work together and slayDracula .

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The lifelike novel ’s campaign picked up steam in comic circle rather quickly . At the clip of writing , the Kickstarter campaign forDragonhas go past its $ 40,000 goal and sit at a little over $ 70,000 raised in total . The campaign is simple , with only a handful of backer tier and no stretching finish . Part of the novel ’s toll also amount from its deluxe printing process , as the campaign makes it exculpated that the Christian Bible will only   be printed in hardback . Ahmed ’s Twitter announcementof the campaign was met with an overflow of support from fans of comics and phantasy , with one commenter already take for a Netflix series based on nothing but the Good Book ’s premise .

Ahmed is a prolific author who has sour on a wide assortment of project . Comic fan and Marvel fans specifically will undoubtedly discern Ahmed as the current writer of bothKamala Khanand Miles Morales ' current solo series . He won an Eisner awarding for his work with Christian Ward on 2018’sBlack Boltseries . Ahmed is also a Hugo Award - nominated author of fantasy novels , attain the graphic novel a arrant scene for Ahmed ’s skills . The book ’s artist , Dave Acosta , is not quite as well known as his counterpart but has done a nifty deal of repulsion work on   comics such as the most recentElvirabook .

With a writer who has as much plaudit as Ahmed , an artist as gifted as Acosta , and an instantly captivating premise , it is no wonder thatDRAGONwas fund less than a day after its announcement . The book ’s focus on the Ottoman empire and its improbable pairing of characters from groups who commonly   do n’t get to be protagonists also give the book a unique border . It might be early to say , butDRAGONcould very well be 2021 ’s good new phantasy comic .

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DRAGONwill loss in June of 2021 . condition out theKickstarter movement here .

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