PLEASE Consider Supporting CBO

Please consider supporting Comic Bits Online because it is a very rare thing in these days of company mouthpiece blogs that are only interested in selling publicity to you. With support CBO can continue its work to bring you real comics news and expand to produce the video content for this site. Money from sales of Black Tower Comics & Books helps so please consider checking out the online store.
Thank You

Terry Hooper-Scharf

Tuesday 7 June 2016

BHP Comics: Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles



Written by Gary Chudleigh
Art & Colours by Tanya Roberts
Lettering by Colin Bell
Release Date: 18 March 2016 |
84 Page TPB |
R.R.P £8.99 |
ISBN: 978-1-910775-04-2
SICBA 2015 Award Winner for Best Comic and Best Artist

The near future. Scotland has been left decimated by a plague that has swept the country. The scattered population struggle to survive from day to day. And the blame for this pandemic falls squarely on ‘witches’ - seemingly ordinary people with extra-ordinary powers- who are hunted down and forced to stand trial by government sanctioned witch-hunters.

Thomas Mackie is one such witch-hunter and, alongside his dog Dex, he hunts down witches in order to save enough money and buy his way to a better life in one of the exclusive luxury apartment blocks, an oasis from the poverty and devastation. But things take an unexpected turn when Mackie’s latest target- a witch called Miranda Lee- blackmails him into helping her act out a dangerous plot to cure the plague, once and for all.


Written by Gary Chudleigh with art from Tanya Roberts (Star Wars : The Clone Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), this trade paper back collects the first three issues with bonus material.

Not having seen nor read Star Wars : The Clone Wars,nor Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all I can say is that I may have been lucky.  I absolutely hate the big eyes used by too many people in comics. In fact I have seen this style used so often that my eyes go blank.  The colour work is okay but the art.  No.  Not a fan.

The story? I got part way through ...oh. The next page is "Bonus Material" which isn't starting any fires.  So, I have read it all. No.  Just no.

If you go to BHPs web site you'll see people raving about this.  Reading some of the comments I have to wonder whether I got the same book? Tanya Roberts is popular enough to have a following and I am quite sure they will lap this up and I'll be called a "bastard" (it's on my passport as "Occupation"). But no. Art and story...no.



No comments:

Post a Comment