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World War Hulk Prologue: World Breaker

Marvel Zombies: Dead Days

Gutsville Issue 1

Tank Girl: The Gifting #1

Hellboy: Darkness Calls

The Homeless Channel

Darcy Shaw is a TV producer with a concept and an agenda; she wants to start up The Homeless Channel, a TV channel dedicated to the problems of living on the street and how to get off it. She’s got programs worked out, has production crews in mind and has a very personal reason for wanting to do it. All she needs is the backing.

For those not in the know, Hellboy himself is a large red demon, born of a witch and a demon prince, who was held in hell as a power waiting to be born up until he was released in to the world in 1944…in Scotland. Bucking his destiny as an agent of the apocalypse he has worked as part of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence (B.P.R.D.)

Yes my friends, Tank Girl co-creator Alan Martin has returned with a vengeance, but without his partner in crime Mr Jamie Hewlett. In the intervening years, this one of her 2 dads has left the world of 2D drawings on paper behind and gone on to big things with his multimedia Gorrilaz project.

Even a murder mystery combined with the fate of the Roman would be hard-pressed to make maximum use of all the space. Fortunately there is far more going on. We have a Batman who is at the start of his career, Jim Gordon battling Gotham’s corruption, as is Harvey Dent.

The book opens with Julie Power, formerly Lightspeed of the super-sibling team Power pack, taking a swan dive from the roof of the Continental Hyatt House Hotel.

Tank Girl made her debut oozing a kind of attitude that had never really been seen in a British comic character before.

With that in mind, as a British film about an American genre, Hot Fuzz could be perceived as an attack on action films. In reality, it celebrates the action film by pointing out the gloriously silly elements of the genre.

Talbot’s principle narrative trick sees a man (Standing in for the audience) enter the Sunderland Empire theatre to watch a one man play.

This is familiar ground for Greg Rucka, and it would be entirely understandable to view Checkmate as little more than Queen and Country with added meta-humans.