Tales of the Dragon Guard: Into the Veil #1-2 (of 3)

This is Marvel's 3-issue limited series republication in English (for North America) of the French multi-volume (10 at last count) heroic fantasy series by Ange and published by Soleil Productions, with a different artist for each volume. The original series itself has certain novel features and is a wonderful piece of work, where the script alternates between riveting action pieces to political intrigue and betrayal to heartbreaking loss to inspiring feats of courage. Briones' artwork in issue #1 is a revelation, and Christian Paty's in issue #2 is just as good. All around a great surprise and with 50+ pages per issue, more than worth the download. Though intended for mature readers, highly recommended. Both high-quality Minutemen-DTs scans. The basic premise is of the stories is that each time a dragon appears somewhere, an incurable disease develops in the area and spreads inexorably the day before. This is "the Veil." Every living being, whether plant or animal found in the area, slowly turns into a monster, goes mad and ends up dying. The only humans immune to this curse are virgins. The Knights Dragons, composed solely of virgin women, was founded to fight and destroy the dragons whenever the Veil occurs. The original French series as mentioned has ten volumes, with a trade paperback planned but Marvel is releasing it as only a three-volume limited series. I'm not really sure if Marvel has condensed the 10-volume series into just 3, but I'm hoping they did not, and am certainly also hoping they will publish the entire set. This is too good a comic book to deserve such cavalier treatment by Marvel's editors. I'm crossing my fingers they have another "limited series" of this French transplant in the works (in the meantime I'm also hoping DarthScanner and his Dragonz team will do a scanlation).
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Tales of the Dragon Guard: Into the Veil #1 | Released Sep 15 2010 | 61 Pages | 60.04 MB Book One: Brisken. The bloodiest battle in the history of the Order of the Dragon Guard! Tens of thousands of creatures deformed by the Veil surge through the country like a wave of death. After overtaking the empire's troops, the monsters are only a few days from the capital. Only the Dragon Guard are strong enough to intervene and the Order cannot ignore the Emperor's request. Will the battle of Brisken Pass battle live on in history books as the battle that saved the empire or as the biggest trap the Order of the Dragon Guard Order ever fell into? Tales of the Dragon Guard: Into the Veil #2 | Released Oct 20 2010 | 52 Pages | 50.62 MB Book Two: The Palace Gardens. Twenty years have gone by since a Dragon devastated the Doge's Palace. The area is now a theater of dark affairs. At the heart of the ruins, around the neck of the Doge lies the Arken jewel - the symbol of his lineage. He who wears it will, in turn, inherit the throne. Looters, mercenaries, heirs - many hope to get their hands on precious jewel. Among them, two Dragon Knights and their apprentice! However, their journey and their intentions differ from the others who seek the jewel. But their alliance is fragile and the Palace ruins shelter strange creatures who wish to tear them apart. Is the dangerous dragon really dead and what new monsters has the Veil created? --

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