A review by silky_octopus
A Distant Soil, Vol. 1: The Gathering by Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran

4.0

Glorious sci-fi space opera (with a dash of characters from King Arthur's court, speaking Welsh). This is interesting and original now, and must have been much more so when it was first written in the 80s; nice to see a gay couple in a long-term sci-fi story with huge scope, and one of them being one of the most powerful beings from a race of powerful beings was rather fun. I don't envy his hairdresser, though. The evil villains are definitely evil - and sadistic - and there's something touching about an avatar for immense power being a young girl whose highest priority when escaping from a mental institution was to make sure she recovered her bear, Mr Butterbear, too. I kind of what to see a crossover story between this, Jupiter Ascending and the Fifth Element, because it feels like there's a similar aesthetic at work.