A superb graphic novel from the folk at Time Bomb Comics here in the UK:
Harker - The Book of Solomon Part II by Roger Gibson, Vince Danks & Andrew Richmond.
Like the majority of Indie publishers here in the UK at the moment, this was financed through a Kickstarter campaign.
Part 1 originally came out way back in 2012 from Titan Comics in hardback (and Time Bomb recently published a new edition in softback) so this concluding chapter has been a long time coming!
Harker: The Black Hound Part Two arrives in February
Harker: The Black Hound Part Two arrives in February #comics #comicbooks
Since coming to Time Bomb Comics in 2019, dark comedy crime series Harker has quickly become a favorite of the British Indie comic scene. This new comic finishes out the second storyline and will be published in February after a highly successful Kickstarter pre-order campaign.
DCI Harker is enjoying a holiday in Whitby, and the last thing he wants is to be drawn into solving a murder. So when…
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in this exclusive clip of 73 yards on unleashed, a visibly queer guy in a pub is terrified of the entity at the door, saying to the others “he’ll kill me first, you know why he’ll kill me first”. seems to me like Russell is riffing on the common horror trope that the “minority dies first”
that scene, the Welsh folk horror thematics, and the mysterious political plotline with ‘Albion’ makes me think that Russel T “queer as folk/it’s a sin” Davies has written his angry, frustrated, socially conscious masterpiece having a go at the state of modern Britain. we KNOW he’s better at this side of screenwriting than the campy lighthearted bullshit he likes so much (no offense to the devil’s chord): midnight, torchwood children of earth, turn left, years and years.
also, next week is a doctor-lite: once again, turn left comes to mind. what’s also curious is that dot and bubble is being marketed as the obvious political allegory (‘so black mirror’, etc) while 73 yards seems to be billed not as socially conscious, but as a pure folk-horror adventure. the only reason we know roger ap gwylliam and the albion party are featuring in this at all is because some smart fans figured it out from filming leaks and screenshots. which makes me inclined to think that this cover story is deliberate: the political plotline is supposed to come as a shock. all the more reason to believe it’s really good. Russell promises 73 yards is the best script he’s ever written. yes, part of the job of a showrunner is to generate hype, but i’m inclined to believe it this time.
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mulder and diana literally have the most intense divorced energy anyone could ever have...they have the chemistry of two people who've been married for decades and maybe don't wanna be married anymore, maybe aren't married anymore, but once you're married you're grandfathered in. you're always married. haven't touched each other in years, go most days not even considering the other, but owe each other something, and aren't sure of what it is. diana lies and lies and lies to his face, and then dies to save him. she feels entitled to him, she knows what's best for him, what's his is theirs. always. she was there when he got it. she helped him build it. (she tells him herself: "don't forget that"). so much of what she does appears as she's trying to establish a claim over him, but she doesn't have to try. she just is. she's irreproachable. you don't talk about the wife. (and you don't talk to her, as scully and diana arguing is met only with mulder's impatient, "scully...scully...scully.")
any time she comes up in conversation, his friends are uncomfortable. i love the way byers goes "well....yeah?" when scully asks if he knows diana. he says it like he's surprised that scully didn't know about her. when scully won't stop pressing mulder about diana in one son, all three of the boys tense up. the camera keeps going to their reactions. (you don't talk about the wife. they were there. "i always wondered why they split up.")
scully says "special agent diana fowley" as though maybe if she had one more title to throw in, she would disappear. diana says "fox" like she has something to prove. mulder says "diana" like it communicates everything he doesn't say. and in a way, it does. the first time scully heard him call agent fowley "diana," she knew.