Week One of the massive Aces Weekly Volume 53, the digital comic anthology published by artist David Lloyd, is now speeding along like the Super Chief Express.
On board are the fabulous team of Lee Robson and Alex Paterson, bringing a new gumshoe onto the scene in “The Emerald King”, who recently chatted to downthetubes about the creation of the story; “Black” is back from Anthony Smith and Tobias Taitt; and dark space adventure “Space Junk” returns from Carlos Pascoa.
A new PI takes to the stage in “The Emerald King” © 2021 Lee Robson & Alex Paterson 
A killer comes to town in “The Hunter” © 2021 Petri Hanninen & Niccolo Pizzorno. From an idea by Marcello Bondi 
Another chapter in the story of a young man finding his way, and his identity, in a challenging world in “Black” © 2021 Tobias Taitt and Anthony Smith 
“Merlin and Hector” make their way towards Stonehenge… © 2021 Jok and Santullo 
Fighting to survive on a hostile planet full of stranded space travelers, a marooned astronaut becomes transformed after his encounter with a deadly adversary… “Space Junk” © 2021 Carlos Pascoa
Plus, “Golgotha” continues from Alberto Rodriguez and Giovanni Castro Nigio with their intriguing tale of an obsessive risking the disruption of entirely everything; Jok and Santullo go on regaling us with their fantastic tale of conflict in old Brittania, and a quest to seek answers from an ancient monument to magic; and Petri Hänninen and Niccolò Pizzorno take us back to Old West in “The Hunter”!
All that, totalling up to 120 pages, including Extras, and delivered directly to your screens over seven weeks in seven parts, for just £1 per week, in any currency, and which also gets you 54, then 55, then 56, etc, on an ongoing basis, forever. “This is all true, unbelievable though it may seem in this crazy world,” David Lloyd himself assures.
Head over to www.acesweekly.co.uk and join the fun!
John Freeman
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. Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek 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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