Intro to Time Before Time & Creator Spotlight: Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville, and Joe Palmer

Welcome to another season of Storied Arcs! This go-round, Mike and Alex are ready to tackle time travel paradoxes head on as they dive into Time Before Time from Image Comics from Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville, and Joe Palmer. The guys start by giving a run down of the full creative team behind this book (to start, at least; a roster of guest artists come into the series after issue #11, and we’ll talk about them when we get to those issues), including colorist Chris O’Halloran and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, before talking a bit about why they chose this book, what drew them to it in the first place, and a little tease to get you into the story.

Time Before Time ran for 29 issues, and has been collected into 6 trade paperbacks. We’ll be covering the story two trade paperbacks at a time; we feel it flows better that way. But if you’re reading in single issue, be aware that every 6th issue (#6, #12, 18, and #24) is a stand-alone one-shot story, and those issues have been collected separately to comprise Volume 6. So in accordance with the trades, we’ll skip over those issues as we go and cover them all at once at the end of the story.

The time travel logic can get tricky, so give yourself time (and space) to read Time Before Time Volumes 1 and 2 (issues #1-5 and #7-11) wherever you get your comics and join us back here next week and be part of the discussion!