Get Yourself some DogBreath!

Kev Levell's cracking cover to Dogbreath 28.

Kev Levell’s cracking Durham Red cover for Dogbreath 28.

 

No, we’re not talking about having an all-night session in some seedy bar with Middenface McNulty! Dogbreath is the brilliant comics fanzine inspired by Starlord/2000AD‘s Strontium Dog, published by Futurequake Press, who also publish Zarjaz (plugged yesterday).

Featuring a slew of great strips and text features from a range of up and coming – and in some cases, well established – comic creators, Dogbreath 28 offers an excellent selection of science fiction adventure stories, with Durham Red taking centre stage on the lead strip, “The Great Train Screw Up” by writer Luke Foster and artist David Broughton.

Behind an amazing cover by Kev Levell – who’s often earning deserved praise of his work in the official 2000AD forum, so why aren’t they commissioning him? –  are some great strips, plus tow short but entertaining interviews with Strontium Dog creators John Wagner and Calros Ezquerra.

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Art by Jake Rowlinson for “Stuck in the Middle with You”

 

Of the strips in the issue, I’d have to say that in terms of both script and art I most like the Strontium Dog tale “Stuck In The Middle With You”  by writer Rich McAuliffe and artist Jake Rowlinson, closely followed by another fine tale from the talented Graham Stoddart and David Stoddart, “Search & Destroy”.

Art by David Stoddart for the four page Strontium Dog story,  "Graham Stoddart"

Art by David Stoddart for the four page Strontium Dog story, “Graham Stoddart”

 

But there’s plenty more to enjoy: “Case File 31 – Stone Killers” a one pager take by writer Leigh Shepherd; “The Healers Hotel”, a thoughtful and tragic six pager from writer Shaun Avery and artist Tom Crielly; “The Day The Diddly Died” by writer Dirk Van Dom and artist Dan Cornwell; and, nestling without ceremony among these “Twilight of the Dogs”, a text story by writer Matt Sharp, illustrated by Jim Campbell, better known as the Damn Fine Letterer in my office but whose art excels, too.

This issue positively oozes talent and great storytelling. Go check it out!

• Dogbreath 28 costs just £3.00 and is on sale from http://www.futurequake.co.uk/shop.php



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