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Written by acclaimed indie creator Caleb Monroe, the comic follows Hunter Prescott, who must quest for the mythical sword Excalibur in order to earn the sizeable fortune left to him by his late uncle.
"That's our starting point. Hunter's uncle Max dies and leaves him a beyond-wildest-dreams fortune, but to keep it he must complete the nigh-impossible task of finding a possibly mythical sword," Monroe told Newsarama. "For once the stakes are simply too high for Hunter not to try, so whether he's ready or not he's going to find out what he's made of."
The series was created by BOOM! co-founder Andrew Cosby, who hand-picked Monroe to work on the project. "This book began as an idea of Andy's, which he developed into a rather detailed treatment," Monroe added.
"He's particularly gifted at finding the hook, the high concept. It literally took my editor a single descriptive sentence to get me totally on board."
Hunter's Fortune #1 is now available from comic book retailers.
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