Ash & Thorn #2 by Mariah McCourt, Soo Lee and Pippa Bowland arrive sin comic shops today. McCourt spoke with Alex Dueben about the series a couple weeks ago, where she said she wanted to play around with the idea of “The Chosen One” trope by having said “Chosen One” be someone unexpected:
So, I’ve always been a big reader and movie person and the “chosen one” trope is common across so many genres. I particularly love it in horror stories, so I’ve always been fascinated with how it’s explored by different storytellers. Then I watched Buffy and became obsessed with subversion of that trope – and so many others. Ash & Thorn came out of my deep love of older female characters like Miss Marple, Granny Weatherwax, and the fact that I grew up with my grandmothers and a lot of influential older women in my life. It just seemed like a good way to subvert the “chosen one,” with an older protagonist, and explore aging and invisibility.
See what else is arriving in comic shops this week.
