Celebrating the launch of his new books BABS, #1 on sale in comic shops from 14th August, and marking the run up to the release of the the latest Battle-ACTION series from Rebellion in October, meet Garth Ennis at Forbidden Planet Interntional Belfast on Saturday 31st August – and grab yourself a rather nice limited edition print, too!
Babs is a six-issue limited series published by US publisher, Ahoy Comics, that sees Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, who produced one of the most popular zombie comics around in Crossed back in action together. Now these two creators are tackling the sword and sorcery genre – and if you enjoy comics like Conan and Red Sonja, but crave more dark, irreverent humour, this might be just the book for you!
Babs is a barbarian thief with an itchy metal wardrobe and the world’s worst enchanted sword, Barry. Together, they travel a fantastic landscape of wizards, dragons, demons, castles-and a band of very angry, very white knights.
Babs wasn’t looking for a fight, but she’s never found a bad situation she couldn’t make 100 times worse!
BABS #1 features variant covers by Chris Burnham (Batman Inc.) and Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn).
Garth Ennis Signing at Forbidden Planet International Belfast
2.00 – 4.00pm Saturday 31st August 2024
Forbidden Planet International, 52-54 Ann Street, Belfast BT1 4EG | Web: forbiddenplanet.co.uk
The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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