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The description sent for this book does a stunningly good job of explaining what's happening. If you click on it now, it should pop up.
As a reader, maybe about 10% of that is going to come through in this first issue. So, how to review this book?

Its an interesting book. The dialogue is jargin heavy in a 'let's rename everything' sort of way, but also done with a bit of charm. You can't say its bland, even if you don't like it, so maybe that's something. The art is mostly beautifully painted, and mostly not really sequential art. It is much more directed as illustrations to go with text. Given that Liam Sharp has been in the industry for 30 years, and given that he created the book, I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt that this is intentional.

So what IS is about? It's an Arthurian update, not so very plain, and perhaps far too not at all simple. I'm going to use the best Arthurian update as a comparison- Mage The Hero Discovered. (Spoiler alert if you haven't read Mage, but it came out in 1984. We may have spoilers from 'Temple of Doom' from time to time as well. Mage is available at your local Graham Crackers location, and is brilliant. Get Mage.)
Mage features a hero who doesn't know he's a hero, is sent on a quest, and mostly succeeds. Its set during the 80's, published during the 80's, by an artist very much of the 80's (for his best work). This makes it VERY accessible. It's an Arthurian legend, so you can probably guess who he turns out to be. Starhenge feels like Mage filtered thru three 2000 AD titles. Each one pushes the accessibility a little bit further away, meaning each issue will have to do an increasingly good job of drawing the reader back in. After a single issue, its just too early to tell if it will do that. It has the potential for pretense or the potential for greatness. It will take more time before we know if it is Jupiter Ascending or the Matrix.