Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

I really wasn't sure what to expect with this but I knew it was Neil Gaiman and Marvel so  that was a Duh for me. Once I got into it and started realizing what it was and who the characters actually were, then I couldn't stop reading.

The characters from the Marvel universe set 400 years in the past. I didn't immediately recognize a lot of characters (why did it take so long to realize who Master Fury was??). There are weird weather patterns happening in England/Europe and in the New World (aka America). Virginia Dare and her bodyguard, Rojhaz, travel to see the Queen to ask for assistance with the new colony. Dare has a unique "problem": when she's angry or terrified, she changes into an animal. Rojhaz is always there to find and protect her until she's able to change back.

Doctor Strange is the Queen's personal physician. Master Fury also works with the Queen as Head of Intelligence. Things start breaking down badly when a secret treasure from the Knights Templar needs to get to England. Fury and his assistant Peter Parquagh ( I didn't catch this til the end. Oh, Amanda) are attacked and things finally collapse when the Queen is killed. King James of Scotland wants the crown and wants all the Witchbreed dead.

We pull in pretty much everyone here: X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Captain America, etc. The season of the superhero is forced when the world is about to end. 

Incredibly interesting perspective of superheros in the past, being brought into fruition just to save our universe and all the rest of the universes out there.

EXCELLENT graphic novel!