Outcastes - The Halfway Mark

Quick plug for Titanic Tony McGee whose wonderful comic Outcastes has now reached its halfway point, issue 6 of 12. This time runaway twins Winter and Summer, their suspicious new pal Geo, and the haunting, witchy, Thea Gilmore lookalike Armida encounter a strange magician and his beautiful assistant who might know the truth about W&S's parents... or might be holding a few darker secrets of their own. While all this is going on, Tone manages some excellent character development with Geo showing a darker, more predatory side and Armida instructing Winter in the black arts. Tony's art maintains the dreamlike quality that makes this book so enthralling - his use of panel borders (or lack of panel borders) is inspired and makes the most of the black and white art (i.e. what he does here wouldn't work half as well in colour), and as usual there's a fantastically imagined climax, this time involving an hourglass and stageshow 'Jaws of Doom'. Creepy as a very creepy thing; essential reading.

For a taster, or to read more of Tone's work (including his new sci-fi serial Eva Nova), pop over to his website now.