Tom King y Bilquis Evely They bring us a fantastic fantasy with Helen de Wyndhorn, his new collaboration after Supergirl, in a volume published by the editorial norm
There was anxious to read the new team that brought us Supergirl: tomorrow’s womanand came to us at the hands of Editorial standard. With Helen de Wyndhorn His authors achieved another success at the height of their previous collaboration. Given the level, it is hoped that it is the second of many …
A girl named Helen Cole
Through the story told by an elderly woman we will know the story of Helen ColeThe girl who worked decades ago as housekeeper. As if a tribute to classic fairy tales, the life of this young woman is narrated with a deeply human and melancholy tone. This is the touch in which we clearly recognize its screenwriter, able to transform a fantastic premise into an intimate exploration of trauma, identity and weight of family bequests.
Helen’s life is modified after the death of his father, a man who gained a life as a fantasy writer pulp. The negative thing is that the salary spent it largely to nourish his alcoholism, a path that ended up leading him to suicide just before his work exploded and transformed him into a really famous novelist. The parallels between this man named CK Cole y Robert E. Howard They are evident, although King probably did not be based on this unique reference during the creation of the character.
The surprise comes when we discovered that Cole led a double life between the real world and a parallel fantasy universe called Wyndhorn. This revelation will have from the moment Helen meets his grandfather, who turns out to be a brutal forged steel warrior who will end the young woman in the family tradition. What might seem like a classic story of the hero’s path soon becomes something much deeper: a study on hereditary pain, the power of stories and the difficulty of reconciling the truth with the fantastic.
Trauma and fantasy
Far from falling into clichés or easily evasion, this comic poses uncomfortable questions that somehow question the way of life of the moment when the action takes place. Who has the right to transport a legendary sword? What does it mean to be a heroine? How much of our lives are conditioned by the decisions made long before being born? With its usual fragmented structure and its taste for symbolism, King guides us for an emotional journey in which each cartoon has weight, every dialogue counts and silence between words says as much as what is pronounced.
The center of the story will be in the complicated relationship between Helen and its grandfather, something that is transmitted to the reader implicitly throughout the narrative and that could be summarized as a sort of twisted and adulterated version of Heidi If the Swiss Alps girl was an alcoholic who discovers her passion for killing dragons.
Bilquis Especlare Evely
The great merit of this comic is the way Bilquis converts each page into a visual jewel. His elegant blow and his sense of design transmit with the magic of Wyndhorn and the contained sadness of his characters. The color palette, courtesy of Matheus lopesPerfectly complete that contrast between the worlds: the unreal brightness of the fantastic kingdom and the most sober tones of the daily world.
The talent that this Brazilian demonstrates is truly impressive. With a very short career behind him, he signs works that seem the result of years of artistic evolution. With Helen by Wyndhorn Evely, paste a fist on the table and is placed as one of the most spectacular artists on the current panorama. It is true that when you have Tom King as a screenwriter, everything is simpler, but Evely has enough quality to shine for herself and her is fault that Wyndhorn Helen is everything is wonderful.
This Escición Presented by Editorial standard It is available in a rigid coverage format without jacket with a size of 18 x 27.5 cm. and contains the translation of the original edition of Helen by Wyndhorn. The volume contains 176 pages color. The recommended sale price is € 29.5 And it was on sale in April 2025.
Helen de Wyndhorn
By the winning team of an Eisner prize that created Supergirl: tomorrow’s womanWe present this epic Gothic history of sword and witchcraft which is a fusion between Conan the barbarian Y The Wizard Oz
After the tragic death of his father, Ck Cole, the appreciated literature writer pulp And creator of the famous character of Guerrero Othan, Helen Cole calls her to the huge and illustrious farm of her grandfather: The Wyndhorn House. Marked by the premature death of his father and lost in a new and strange world, an elena always embraced a bottle of chaos of the sow of wine on arrival. However, his chaotic customs will begin to soften when he discovers a life of secrets hidden in the myriad of rooms and corridors of the enormous residence. Well, out of its walls, in the forest, the legendary adventures they had previously found in the stories of his father.
In addition to an incredible story of growth, overcoming the loss and the search for the purpose, this volume includes a section with sketches of the process of creating the creation of Bilquis Evely and further illustrations of Walt Simonson, Greg Smallwood, Clay Mann, Elsa Carter, Loy poem, Massimo Carnevale, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Hernández Walta y Jill Thompson.
Authors: Tom King, Bilquis Evely y Matheus lopes