The latest volume of Aces Weekly, the long running digital comics anthology published by comic artist and writer David Lloyd, offers a host of great comic strips to enjoy, the work of comic creators from around the globe.
Volume 65 offers “Lazarus” by Paco Vilchez Barea, “Unsuspecting Saviour” by Fer Calvi, “Sicarios” by Roberto Corroto and Ertito Montana, “Serraq” by Chris Geary, “Space Junk” by Carlos Pascoa, and “The Emerald King” and Lee Robson and Alex Paterson, all for a subscription of just £1 a week.
“Lazarus” by Paco Vilchez Barea: After a mysterious entity murders his most faithful apprentice, the kestrel Lazarus, the Blind Seer seeks revenge and new apprentices in the centuries to come. Mysteriously motivated by dreams of the Blind Seer and his world, a young student, Sergio, is impelled to travel to a place of past memory and an encounter with the grand master of anamorphos, while, decades on, a new potential apprentice, Kalu, awaits the Blind Seer’s tutelage…
“Unsuspecting Saviour” by Fer Calvi, a strange new world of wonder from the creator of “Living The Dream”
“Sicarios” by Roberto Corroto and Ertito Montana: Phil Anselmo and Riot Girl have been hired to kill one of the world’s richest magnates, but before they can progress with any plans to complete their mission, they are obliged to take part in a contest of combat…
Big problems need big fixes in “Serraq” by Chris Geary
“Space Junk” by Carlos Pascoa: The only human settlement of marooned travelers on the enormous drifting junkyard in space dubbed The Great Wanderer, has been turned into a prison by the fearsome Ghorro-Bohm Collective Sentience Syndicate and its lackeys, the robotic avatars nicknamed ‘diskheads’. A group of brave men and women who have escaped the occupation have now set up a secret hideout from where they plan to start a rebellion. Can they reclaim their home from its alien enslavers, or will they succumb to the ever-dwindling supply of the basic necessities they need to live and become mere dust specs, piling up on the spacefaring heap like every other piece of space junk it has claimed?
The return of PI Parker, in the fantastic “The Emerald King” by Lee Robson and Alex Paterson
You can cancel anytime if you can’t stand to be so well treated for such an extended period of time, but surely this is a bargain deal in anyone’s book for such great material?
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as 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.