tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185783102024-03-07T15:29:57.021-08:00Disease, Desire and DelinquencyThis is the blog of writer Jim Alexander. I'm thrilled to announce the imminent publishing of my debut novel. 316 pages.
'GoodCopBadCop' is a modern crime take on Jekyll and Hyde where the ‘good cop’ and ‘bad cop’ are the same person. Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-27460183535618589742021-05-29T07:31:00.001-07:002021-05-29T07:31:12.654-07:00<p>I've had this blog up and running for well over a decade now, but it's time to move on. I've finally got round to setting up my own writer's website. The following link will take you there:</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span style="color: blue; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">https://jimalexanderwriting.com<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p></p><p>No plans from now on to update this blog. To be fair entries have been pretty sparse over the last couple of years as it is. Many thanks for all of you who dropped by. I still intend on posting the odd thing on the new website, so I hope you might consider checking it out. </p><p>Cheers and awrabest!</p>Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-64221435355062499372020-06-18T13:51:00.000-07:002020-06-18T13:51:40.284-07:00Something on the TV<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">I wrote something that started as a comic strip which
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worse than take in Whisky in the Jar, which stars Michael Biehn and James
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with Marsters as a doc who has the healing touch. Word spreads, and cowboys
with a feud to settle, or who are just looking for a wild time, flock to Totem,
sure in the knowledge if they get wounded, they have a higher chance of
survival in a town with the doc with the healing hands. What should be viewed
as a blessing quickly turns into a nightmare as the town is overrun.<o:p></o:p></p>
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comic strip, written by me with art by Gerald Parel, send me a PM and I’ll send
on the PDF.<o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-14095359539196384332020-06-02T00:35:00.003-07:002020-06-02T00:35:15.432-07:00Podcast Frenzy<br />
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Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-54560518610248450572020-03-19T13:59:00.000-07:002020-03-19T14:11:46.592-07:00March<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-58829909592008794132020-02-10T13:02:00.001-08:002020-02-10T13:23:03.462-08:00The Herald/Paisley,Aberdeen,Carlisle/Food Chain<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Our latest giveaway is the PDF of Food Chain#1. <i>'You’re in Sales. You’re top of the food chain. Your whole life – every client detail – is held on your smartphone. So what happens when someone gets hold of your phone – your contacts – your life? Someone bad? Someone demonic?' </i>Featuring fully coloured art by Pete Woods who is currently working on the webcomic Voodoo Chille (check it out at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://voodoochille.com&source=gmail&ust=1581454788723000&usg=AFQjCNHxDJ6oovQuuD-mzmwTSLrQS4e0uA" href="http://voodoochille.com/" target="_blank">voodoochille.com</a>).</span></div>
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one. So, if you’ll indulge me I’d like to delve into news about my new book <i>the
Light</i>, as well as other publishing news and any public appearances I have planned.
Also, there will be a monthly giveaway of a PDF of a comic published by Planet
Jimbot. In this case the award nominated <i>Wolf Country#1</i>. So <span style="color: white;">without</span>
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posted already of my new novel. Up on the book’s Amazon page we have a
five-star review from Piaras, who says, <i>‘It’s a first-class speculative
fiction with perfect pacing. Not much is as it appears here, which is just the
way fans of mystery, thriller and suspense will want it.’</i> What more can I
say, but Piaras knows his onions.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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streamlined and aesthetically pleasing 9/10 on the website <i>Now Read This! </i>The
review goes on to say, <i>‘Told through a string of narrative viewpoints from
the highest and mightiest to the most excluded and lowly, how The Light works –
and how it ultimately fails – is beguilingly exposed in a wry and mordant,
satire-saturated tale that delves like a forensic exam into the nature of what
it means to be human and truly alive…’</i> And you’ll get no argument from me.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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I write a re-telling of the origin story of Storm. It tells of her birth, the
tragic death of her parents, her life on the streets as a teenager and her
discovery of her powers all the way through to her ascension to goddess and
ultimately X-Man. Marc Campos supplies the art. It’s a really dynamic endearing
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werewolves in a Wild West setting. It’s a lot more than that, but why should I
ruin the surprise? Nominated by the Eagle awards/True Believers for best UK
comic. Written by Jim Alexander and drawn by the superlative Luke Cooper. Luke
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this post (please include an e-mail address) or send an e-mail (</span><a href="mailto:planetjimbot@gmail.com"><span style="color: white;">planetjimbot@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: white;">).</span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></div>
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Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-21452009174398398202020-01-03T07:41:00.000-08:002020-01-03T07:41:05.772-08:00the Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Happy New Year to one and all.
‘So what’s new’ I hear you ask? I have a new novel out called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Light</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Light</i> explores a world where you wake up and know this is the
day you die. How would such a world shape the way we think, our views on each
other and society, how we conduct our personal and financial affairs; how we
live and how we will die?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can read the first chapter
here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://donjimmyreviews.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/extract-from-thelight-by-jim-alexander/">https://donjimmyreviews.wordpress.com/2019/12/04/extract-from-thelight-by-jim-alexander/</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I chat to Meredith Rankin
about the book and writing in general:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://meredithrankin.com/author-interview-jim-alexander-author-of-the-light/">https://meredithrankin.com/author-interview-jim-alexander-author-of-the-light/</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the start of last year I
was promoting my first novel GoodCopBadCop. As we embark on 2020 I’ve moved on
to <em>the Light</em>. There’s a diary of my year of 2019 (a little tongue in cheek thrown in for good measure) posted up on Between the
Lines:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://betweenthelinesbookblog.com/2019/12/06/guestpost-from-jim-alexander-author-of-the-light-where-does-time-go-jimplanetjimbot-books-sciencefiction/">https://betweenthelinesbookblog.com/2019/12/06/guestpost-from-jim-alexander-author-of-the-light-where-does-time-go-jimplanetjimbot-books-sciencefiction/</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Edited by Kirsten Murray.
Cover by Alex Ronald. It would be remiss of me not to give you a few links
where you can pick the book up. Available in paperback and digital almost
everywhere, but for starters here are a couple of Amazon links:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">UK:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-87580082691150013152019-10-29T06:43:00.000-07:002019-10-29T06:43:04.819-07:00Signed copy of GCBC on sale on Etsy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where has the time gone? No
sooner am I touting the first novel, I’m now prepping for the second. The new
book is called ‘the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Light</i>’, which is as
far removed from the first one as you’re likely to get (except for the fact I’m
writing it of course).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">More on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Light</i> shortly, but in the meantime if
you fancy a signed copy of GoodCopBadCop for a tenner (postage included) it’s
up on the Planet Jimbot shop on Etsy. Happy to dedicate it to whoever you like
making it the ideal pressie for yourself or someone you know who love books:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/731747383/">https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/731747383/</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alternatively, get your
digital copy of GoodCopBadCop for £3.69 including VAT also on Etsy: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is a crime novel with a twist. It is a modern crime take on Jekyll and Hyde
where both ‘good cop’ and ‘bad cop’ are the same person. This is not a story
about a good man turned bad, or a bad man turned good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both good and bad arrived at the same time.</span></div>
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as a Graphic Novel, which went on to win the True Believers Comics Awards. The
novel delves deeper into the psychological trappings, black humour and
surrealist overtones that made the title such a hit with readers. It really gets
into the gut(s) and mind(s) of the main character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Jim Alexander is an
award-winning writer who has worked for TV (Metal Hurlant Chronicles) and for
DC (Batman 80-Page Giant, Birds of Prey) and Marvel (Uncanny Origins,
Spectacular Spider-Man). GoodCopBadCop is his debut novel.</span></div>
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</span><br />Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-91040462381764276982018-10-02T12:16:00.000-07:002018-10-02T12:16:36.903-07:00A potted history of GCBC#1
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The first issue of
GoodCopBadCop the comic came out in 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I came up with the idea a year earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was looking for an idea – a high concept even – for my next indie
comics venture and I remember seeing an ad on a double-decker bus and suddenly
it came to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It popped into my head more
or less fully formed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have absolutely
no recollection what the ad on the bus was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I always assumed one day it would come back to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m not so sure.</div>
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The same night I put together
the pitch, everything came together beautifully, seamlessly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a wall in Sauchiehall Lane, I saw a piece
of street art in the shape of a human-shaped chalk mark and I thought, that
gives me an idea, and the opening story began to form.</div>
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It was a Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had to be because I was attending Weegie
Wednesday, a monthly networking event for Glasgow-based writers and all types
of creative, held at Universal (as it was called at the time).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was the night I bumped into artist Garry
McLaughlin, who himself was catching a quick drink, having been to the cinema previously
to watch Terence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I knew of Garry, rather than actually knowing him, so I approached his
table, introduced myself and sneaked in a quick pitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Garry was up for it and there it was.</div>
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Funny that, I can remember so
much about that night, but not the ad on the side of a bus which in my mind sparked
the whole thing off.</div>
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The comic featured three
stand-alone stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a sort of ‘proof
of concept’ issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to show I
could take the idea and play it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put
some flesh on the bones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Garry’s version
of DI Brian Fisher remains the definitive one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His version of BadCop is a brutish one, the character bulking up in
front of your eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His rendering of Mrs
MacPhellimey with her ‘mushroom cloud’ hair (whose name I took from ‘At
Swim-Two-Birds’ by Flann O’Brien) is just superb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cover he did for this issue remains one
of my favourites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's a beauty...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">…And tell us how long it took
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Okay good question, deep breath
– 9 months writing it; 6 months in a drawer; another 6 months of rewriting it; 3
months of editing, proofing and publishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After a quick count of all my fingers, toes, and some other appendages, I
make that 24 months in total.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or 2 years,
give or take the odd hastily eaten sandwich and dodgy haircut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The book is still at the proofing
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be any hurried last minute changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
suppose it’s taking the adage to its logical conclusion that a novel is never
finished, it’s just published.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually
you’ve got to let it go and unleash it onto an unsuspecting, but I hope
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<br />Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-43684291853611313922018-09-26T11:24:00.000-07:002018-09-26T11:24:58.407-07:00I've got a novel coming out<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I’m about to publish my first
novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called ‘GoodCopBadCop’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of you might already recognise the title
from the brace of graphic novels written by me a few years back, published by
Rough Cut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The novel has given me the
chance to really get into the guts of the mind(s) of the main protagonist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This for me will be the definitive
version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’ve done it, I can move on
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The plan is to use this blog
to dip in and out and provide a commentary on various facets of the debut novel
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was to sum up the
process in a few bullet points, it might read a little like this:</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><br />
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the thing<br />
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it out to traditional publishers<br />
- Decide
to go the self-publishing rout<br />
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- Publishing<br />
- Marketing<br />
- Lessons
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Like any creative process, the one above isn’t strictly a linear one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can, for example, start talking about the book (which could come under marketing) before you’ve even written a single word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Also, now I’ve decided to go down one publishing route rather than another, I’m treating ‘sending it out to traditional publishers’ as a by-word for putting your ‘finished’ manuscript in a drawer for six months before taking it back out again, ready with fresh eyes for the final redraft, which is itself a by-word for another six months of rewriting.</div>
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As I type, the manuscript is with a proof-reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m hoping the book will be out before the end of the year, probably when everyone is skint in the lead up to Xmas, but I see this project as a slow-burner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People will still be finding out about the book in six months’ time.</div>
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<br />Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-13755708379696390812017-04-16T12:38:00.001-07:002018-01-23T13:59:15.037-08:00Savant/Dark Horse PresentsSavant by Jim Alexander, Will Pickering, Fin Cramb & Jim Campbell appearing right now in the pages of Dark Horse Presents.<br />
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Wolf Country#7 by Jim Alexander, Will Pickering, Jim Campbell & Luke Cooper on sale now at:</div>
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<br />Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-2249525767898317502016-11-23T13:42:00.000-08:002016-11-23T13:55:39.222-08:00Calhab Justice collected by Hachette Partworks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Savant had been around for a while in various guises, but the definitive team of me (Jim Alexander) as writer, artist Will Pickering and colourist Fin Cramb came about officially when we met up in May 2012 at Kapow (London comics con organised by Mark Millar).</div>
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A year and a bit later, we launched a 24-page comic published by Planet <span class="text_exposed_show">Jimbot on Oct 2013 at the much missed Plan B in Glasgow.</span></div>
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Other publishers seemed to be showing an interest, but it was Dark Horse who finally came through. On May 2014 we received contracts to deliver the first Savant story, 48 pages in total. </div>
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We finished the story in Nov 2014, and since then, well, it had gone a bit quiet. But, our Dark Horse editor has been in touch. Savant will debut in the pages of Dark Horse Presents, on sale March 2017, running through DHP issues 32 to 37.</div>
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If there's a moral to all this it's that you'll get there eventually if you're talented enough and you work hard enough and you're willing to wait long enough - though not necessarily in that order!</div>
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<br />Jim Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09505459586971958962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18578310.post-70993962996145970622016-03-28T09:00:00.002-07:002016-03-28T09:00:46.894-07:00The Samurai<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Award winning (GoodCopBadCop) and award nominated (Wolf Country) writer and artist team, Jim Alexander and Luke Cooper, join forces once again to create the one-shot ‘The Samurai’. Available to pre-order on the Planet Jimbot online shop.<br />
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Black Library is reprinting Deathwatch as a rather nifty hardback. A classic graphic novel tale (that’s what it says on the website) written by me with Graham Stoddart (2000AD) and Lee Townsend (Marvel comics) on art duties. The sumptuous Karl Richardson cover is probably worth the price of the book alone. Also up on the website is a brief outline of the story; and Lordy will you breath in that Space Marine-styled testosterone.</div>
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THE STORY<br /> The first line of defence against t<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">he foul xenos creatures besieging mankind is the Deathwatch – an elite cadre of alien hunters drawn from the ranks of the Space Marines. Now, a team of the Deathwatch under the command of Jerron, an Ultramarine veteran, has been sent to quell an alien insurrection on the Imperial planet of Pavia. But when the aliens have infiltrated Imperial society and appear to be human, the team must mark their targets carefully!</span></div>
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charged story and candid art, Wolf Country is a silver bullet to the bloated
heart of quirky bloodsuckers and dreary werewolves”<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span>– Dominic Cuthbert,
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Vampires. Wild West style…. that’s the pitch. It’s a good one, but there’s
proving to be a lot more to Wolf Country than that</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” – Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brooding, intriguing and utterly
compelling from the get-go.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">” – </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Win
Wiacek, Now Read This</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wolf
Country takes Werewolves vs. Vampires and not only adds its own spin, but owns
the genre in doing so</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">" – Dustin
Cabeal, Comic Bastards</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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