Angel Fire - Softcover

Blythe, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 095499440X ISBN 13: 9780954994402

Publisher: NBM Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

John Dury is a corporate predator who hunts and kills businesses for money, power, and bonuses paid in designer drugs. The latest drug to hit the city is Angel Fire. A powerful sedative and hallucinogen that seems to open the door to the next world. Instead of finding the keys to heaven, John opens the door to hell - spiraling into a nightmare dimension of ghosts and demons – and the faceless shadow that waits in the deepest blackest reaches of his own soul. Part Faustian fable, part Gothic horror story – Angel Fire is a powerful tale of corruption and redemption.

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About the Author

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.

From Booklist

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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About this edition

• Publisher: NBM Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 095499440X
• ISBN 13: 9780954994402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Parkhouse Steve