Angel Fire - Softcover

Angel Fire is scripted and illustrated by the U.K.-based Daedalus Studio’s Chris Blythe (the hugely influential comic 2000AD) and Steve Parkhouse (How to Draw and Sell Comics, Dr. Who, Warrior). Both are well-established, respected names in the comic/GN world and bring all their knowledge and experience to this superb book.

For a job so well done that its target killed himself, business-takeover artist Mr. Belial rewards minions John and Zee with the potent, illicit sedative-hallucinogen Angel Fire. When John comes down and goes home, wife Tess isn't there. She was already fed up with his line of work, and today was their second anniversary. Drug-addled weeks pass, then Tess puts out a feeler. When John goes to her, she is dead, an apparent suicide. He tries overdosing on Angel Fire. Coming around days later, he learns he has inherited the haunted, rural Scottish seat of Tess' family, and to it he repairs. There Zee finds him, and an already cold story gets several degrees chillier. Veteran writer-artists Blythe and Parkhouse launch their own imprint with this too-brief ghost story sporting an O. Henry-cum-Ambrose Bierce ending. Parkhouse fills it with younger, less-grotesque kin to the characters in his collaboration with Joe Casey, The Milkman Murders (2005), while Blythe writes and does the coloring, especially impressively on the splash and flashback pages. Ray Olson
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