The Once and Future Queen

Series · 1 book · 2017

By Adam P. Knave, D.J. Kirkbride

Books in series

The Once and Future Queen, Vol. 1

Opening Moves

2017

Rani Arturus is a chess prodigy with no plans to be a leader of any sort, let alone QUEEN. After she pulls the legendary sword Excalibur from the stone...well, no backsies. Now she must form a new round table made of friends and family to protect the Earth from an invasion of Fae, who'd like a new planet to call their own. It's magic, romance, adventure, and excitement as old myths reveal themselves to be fake, and new ones cause trouble for everyone! \- King Arthur is reimagined as a 21st century multi-ethnic teen girl \- Featuring a diverse team of characters with East-Asian, African, and British heritage, as well as diverse sexual orientation. \- Set in Portland, Oregon, and the UK \- From the team who created Amelia Cole, an all-ages heroine who ran for 6 arcs at Monkeybrain and IDW. This volume collects The Once and Future Queen #1 - #5

Authors

Adam P. Knave

Author · 6 books

Adam P. Knave is an Eisner and Harvey award winning editor and writer who writes prose fiction (This Starry Deep, Stays Crunchy in Milk, Strange Angel), comics (The Once and Future Queen, Amelia Cole, Artful Daggers, stories in Titmouse Vol 2, Outlaw Territory Vol 3, and many more), as well as humor essay collections (NYCWTF, I Slept With Your Imaginary Friend) and used to write columns for sites such as thefoonote, TwoHeadedCat, Comics101, PopCultureShock, Three If By Space, and MamaPop. He worked as one of the editors of Image’s Popgun anthology, also editing many other works along the way. Currently in Portland, OR after spending 38 years in New York City, Adam knows he should insert a joke or something attempting to be witty here at the end but is too tired to care.

D.J. Kirkbride

Author · 2 books

D.J. Kirkbride is the co-writer and co-creator of AMELIA COLE, an ongoing digital comic book series from Monkeybrain Comics (published in print by IDW), as well as the Dark Horse mini-series NEVER ENDING. He won an Eisner and a Harvey as an editor and a contributing writer for the POPGUN anthologies from Image Comics and has also contributed stories to TITMOUSE MOOK volume 2, FIRESIDE MAGAZINE issue 1, and OUTLAW TERRITORY volume 3. In addition to his comics work, D.J. went and wrote a book of ninja poetry called DO YOU BELIEVE IN NINJAS? (Creative Guy Publishing).