The current volume of David Lloyd’s digital anthology, Aces Weekly, includes a brand new “Velicity Jones” story, “The Hand of Glory”, written by Lee Robson, with art by Bryan Coyle.
This is the seventh Velicity Jones adventure, and it might be the best one yet (it’s a personal favourite of Lee’s, at least), and the adventure character’s return to Aces Weekly was accompanied by the publication of a short run daily newspaper strip-styled adventure, “The Blind God Affair”, on Lee’s Imaginary Stories site and across his social media.
“It was also, probably, the trickiest one to pull together, from a technical point,” Lee reveals. “It takes place in the immediate aftermath of the sixth story, ‘The Point Nemo Affair’ (as seen in Aces Weekly volume 62), but it’s not “Part Two of a two part story. The story we came up with had to happen in that specific time frame for it to work (one of the challenges of setting up the next story, like we do, is that it sometimes leaves some interesting story problems to solve down the line).
“People don’t have to read ‘The Point Nemo Affair’ before reading this one, but it would be cool if they did!”
In the new adventure, when Soviet general Danil Kalkin defects to the West, he brings with him the prototype of the fabled Hand Of Glory, a device, the Russians claim, that can remotely access any computer network in the world, allowing whoever possesses it to shape global politics to their whim!
Dispatched to retrieve the device before the US Government can get their hands on it, Velicity Jones finds herself in a deadly game of cat and mouse with rogue American agents, determined to do whatever it takes to get “The Hand Of Glory” – including murdering the world’s greatest secret agent! But both sides are unaware that Maksim Volkov, the infamous Russian assassin, has been ordered to retrieve the device at any cost…
Don’t miss out on “The Blind God Affair”
In addition to the new Velicity Jones for Aces Weekly, Lee and Brian have also just published a surprise eleven-part “Velicity Jones” story, a daily newspaper style strip called “The Blind God Affair”, that featured on Lee’s BlueSky and Mastodon accounts up until the launch of Aces Weekly #72.
“I’m planning a ‘behind the scenes’ look at the story on my Imaginary Stories site,” Lee tells us, “because of the odd way it came about. It was actually done ‘Marvel Method’, which was…interesting!”
Aces Weekly Volume 72 – available now
In addition to “Velicity Jones – The Hand of God”, Aces Weekly Volume 72, available now at aces weekly.co.uk, offers the return of the splendid “Whale House” from Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable; a cautionary tale about curiosity in “Curiosity”, from Petri Hänninen and Andrea Meneghin; and more magic from Federico Zilli in the company of the mysterious psychic, Canuto, as he tries to help a distraught son find help for his father in “The Right Place”.
Then, check out what might happen if the future disturbs the past in “The Kind Prince” from Ale Mangiarotti; and there’s the “Celestial Hunters” tracking down the “cursed”, courtesy of Marcello Bondi and Alessandro Amoruso; and zany killers, Riot and Phil, near their target in “Sicarios”, from Ertito Montana and Roberto Corroto; plus the bizarre superhero, Bright Darkness, tries to fix a failure in the conclusion of “The Good Soldier” from Petri Hänninen and Niccolò Pizzorno.
All, all of that comes to you in an unstoppable run of seven-weeks of seven-parts, in up to 150 pages, including Extras, coming to you directly via your tablet, laptop, desktop, and smart tv, for just £1 per week, in any currency, which also gets you Volumes 73, 74, 75, etc, etc… you get the idea…
• Check out and subscribe to Aces Weekly at acesweekly.co.uk
• Check out The Blind God Affair on Lee’s Imaginary Stories site, as well as being posted his BlueSky and Mastodon
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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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