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Sci-Fi & Fantasy with Mat Coward: February 1, 2022
New titles from Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard, JT Nicholas, WM Cleese and Ally Wilkes
MARK TURNER holds on tight for a mesmerising display of Neath-born ragtime virtuosity
ALAN MORRISON introduces a UK poet whose despised daytime occupation provides the subject for his writing
MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
PAUL DONOVAN recommends three new books that explore the human relationship with nature
Doomed adolescents, when the missing person is you, classic whodunnit, and an anti-capitalist eco-thriller
BRINK volume 4 by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard, (Rebellion, £12.99), continues one of the most interesting and thoroughly imagined science fiction comics of recent years.
Originally a strip in the weekly 2000 AD, it takes place in a near future where environmental degradation has forced the human race to evacuate to giant space stations. They’ve taken corporate rule along with them, so the rich are still rich and the rest live in cramped near-poverty, plagued by crime, narcotics and apocalyptic religious cults.
Through a plot that blends horror, cop story and mystery, Abnett’s script and Culbard’s art work together with a rare harmony to create an exciting and convincing portrait of a future.
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