Independent British publisher Markosia is continuing their Free Comics Digital Giveaway with Slaughterman’s Creed #1, a title from their massive archive that’s also still available as a collection, published back in 2011.
Slaughterman’s Creed is a story of the fall and rise of monsters, where an ethical knife-edge is all that separates hero from villain.
A human trafficker orders the death of a killer who refuses to breach his professional code. Twelve years later, the trafficker’s world erupts in blood and chaos. Barely surviving and crippled for life, the Slaughterman has returned to put the whole organisation to the blade…
Grab your free copy of Slaughterman’s Creed #1 written by Cy Dethan with art by Kit Stephen Downey here – and if you enjoy that, grab the collection here (AmazonUK Affiliate Link).
Cy Dethan‘s comic writing credits include titles for Markosia Enterprises, Mongoose Publishing and Insomnia Publications, his career taking off in 2006. In 2007, he was chosen to take the reins of Markosia’s flagship Starship Troopers series and has since written numerous creator-owned projects, including the Cancertown and Indifference Engine graphic novels.
He’s also a contributor of short stories to many anthology publications, including The British Comics Showcase and Time Bomb Comics’ Bomb Scares, and is heavily involved in the Unseen Shadows transmedia project, the brainchild of bestselling Amazon author Barry Nugent. His first prose novel, the SF crime thriller Bad Sector, was published last year, and he continues to produce fiction in genres ranging from paranormal espionage to samurai splatterpunk.
Stephen Downey is one half of developer Outsider Games, whose 2016 work includes musical adventure game, Wailing Heights, How to Train Your Dragon, and Halo. His comics work includes Noe the Savage Boy (with Mal Coney), and Jennifer Wilde, written by Maura McHugh, with Rob Curley’s Atomic Diner Comics, along with Flash Gordon for Dynamite Comics, and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, for IDW.
Markosia was established in 2005 and has become one of the UK’s leading Independent publishers, particularly in the graphic novel field. The publisher has gained a reputation for producing a diverse range of comic books, graphic novels, children’s picture books and prose novels that cover all genres, with the highest possible production values.
Recent Free Comic releases from Markosia include Shadowmancer #1, adapted from the novel written by G.P. Taylor by Tony Lee, with art by Pedro Delgado; and The Dark #1, written by Chris Lynch with art by Rick Lundeen.
New releases include AloneNotLonely – Collected Nightmares, written and illustrated by Luke Cooper, creator of Hollow Girl and Pumpernickel, and Space Bums #1 written by Luke James Halsall with art by Hiorsh Gabotto, available on DriveThruComics and ComiXology.
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
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.
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