Having read ‘Tavish. The Survivor’, the first story in comic anthology While We Burn #1, I’m fully on board with its vision of a medieval world overrun with terrible monsters. Some of them are human, but mostly they’re vicious, bloodthirsty creatures in various forms.

The titular character, Tavish, survives by roaming the world alone. The story digs into his history and what led to him being a sole survivor, as well as asking the question: what happens when he finds a reason to live, instead of just surviving?

Given the brevity of the story, a necessity of the form given that While We Burn is an anthology telling four different stories (though they are all set in the same world), it’s remarkable how much detail and world-building is imparted over its small page count.

The art is phenomenal too, with a great sense of detail and scale; there’s plenty of gory action too, despite how much exposition is necessary to introduce us to the dark, fallen fantasy world of the story.

Currently in the midst of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, While We Burn #1 is the brainchild of Denis Berashevich, who has written all four of the stories in the anthology, collaborating with a different artist for each one.

Despite the fact that I’ve only had a taster of the comic via the first story, it was incredibly absorbing and I’m fully on board with exploring more of Berashevich’s deadly, cruel universe.

You can pledge for a copy of While We Burn #1 on Kickstarter right now, with a variety of different formats on offer.

Many thanks to Denis Berashevich for sending me a digital copy of the anthology’s first story for review purposes.

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