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Comics Village by Glenn Carter His life falling to pieces, hero agent Jacob Marley returns to MI5 to take on a group of Neo-Nazi lunatics.
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Forbidden Planet blog by Joe Gordon “Britain is broken” reads the tagline for this new tale from Brit small press Moonface written by Andy Winter who many of you will remember from the well-received Hero Killers and Blood Psi which we’ve mentioned on here before (in fact Hero Killers won last year’s Eagle Award for Best Black and White Comic). As you might guess from that tagline, a title like Septic Isle riffing on the more usual (and grandiose) Sceptred Isle name and a very dark, brooding cover (by Declan Shalvey who worked with Andy on Hero Killers and who is himself on the Eagles shortlist this year) this is not going to be a barrel of laughs. What it actually delivers though is a dark-edged, modern-day spy story for the War On Terror era Britain (although to those of us old enough to remember the IRA campaigns it seems like we’ve been in that era for decades).... |
Comics Bulletin by Regie Rigby Septic Isle, written by Winter and illustrated by Mick Trimble is that rarest of things – a modern spy story that doesn’t rip off James Bond and isn’t shit. Seriously, it’s right up there with Oni’s Queen and Country and TV’s The Sandbaggers, which in this genre is about the highest praise I could give. Winter’s pacey script is worthy of John le Carré, and Trimble’s moody black and white art is a fine compliment to the noir feel of the book. I can’t claim to be an expert, but I strongly suspect that the world of the modern spy is very much like that of Jacob Marley – tense, dirty, desperate and utterly unglamorous. Winter captures something of modern Britain, our fears and our paranoia in these fifty two pages. Had me gripped from the very first page, and I literally couldn’t put it down.
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Broken Frontier by Tonya Crawford
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Aint it Cool News by Ambush Bug
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