This is really fun; basically a non-stop action romp, in which stories can be incursions into our reality. That idea, when malignant, spreading to more people, forms more incursions, and so on. The main character ends up going from a bundling virginal doofus to a literal Percival (all in the first issue), who saves the day - following in the line of his family, all of whom were monster hunters. Think supernatural, but they hunt actual stories, so they need to play into the story or disrupt it, depending on what is actually going down.

Even internally, the logic doesn’t make sense, and the soft worldbuilding techniques don’t do it much favours. This has to be a very much, turn off your brain and go with it to have fun, kind of book. And that’s fine! I DID have fun reading it. There wasn’t ever a point where it subverted my expectations, and there’s basically never a down beat. There’s just threat after threat after threat, so there’s not that much character growth either.

The artwork is mostly great. Especially the colour palette; it’s a bit weird, maybe grim dark, tainted grail type stuff, but with bright colours that really pop off the page. The binding is excellent in this version as well. It’s unfortunate it’s not oversized too, that would have been really great. But it’s a good time and great value for money, if you can nab it on sale and you’re into the whole retelling of Arthurian legend paralleling modern day Brexit UK and monster hunting mashup.