I'm usually not that big a fan of AUs, they can be interesting, but most of the times I'd prefer it, if it were an entirely new story. But this one, this one was amazing and the description as "Masterpiece" on the backside of the German version is quite fitting. The story is fascinating, the art is stunning and everything just strangely fits together so very well. Even if characters were different from what we know, they still felt familiar, even if I didn't entirely get Magnetos motives during the first half of his appearance. Gaiman used the basic concepts of the characters and really shaped them to what they would be like if they had lived back then. Though I have to say: Bardic Daredevil was my favourite (and the un-explained Dinosaurs...). An admittance on my part: All I know about Roanoke is pretty much from that one episode of Supernatural, a quick skim through Wikipedia earlier today and "having heard the word somewhere before", so that connection was pretty lost on me...not that I know that much more about the end of the Elizabethan Era... I'm also not entirely sure whether it was the translator that messed up names (written: Carolus, spoken: Carlos, Enrique/Enrico,...) or if it was intentional that the different variations of the names were used. Bugged me a bit, but well, I knew whom they meant. Though Scotius and Parquagh and all the other variations were pretty cool.