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All-out action from cover to cover in 100% Biodegradable - Issue 17!

All-out action from cover to cover in 100% Biodegradable – Issue 17!

100% Biodegradable Issue 17 is on sale now, crammed with digital comics goodness – available from all the usual electronic outlets. Here’s the line-up and yes, of course I’m just a teeny bit biased about this title for obvious reasons given the creator line-up that includes myself and many great creators I’ve worked with in the past… it’s an honour to be part of the creative team on this project!…

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Review: 100% Biodegradable #18

Review: 100% Biodegradable #18

Just in time for some Halloween time reading, Biomekazoik gives us yet another issue of this sci-fi and horror anthology comic. It features a diverse and interesting mix of six stories all with a pulpy fun feel. Fan of the series are sure to find what they love in it, but this is also a good time for new readers to give the series a chance given the time of year. First off, the background on the…

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Haydn Hades of “a Place to Hang your Cape” reviewed 100% Biodegradeble’s Issue #14 and had some kind words to say about “Old Bill”:

“Andre Mateus (words) and Tony Suleri (pictures) bring back Chandleresque future-sleuth “Old Bill” to solve a homicide in a post-murder world. Again, to those who have read earlier issues and to 100% first timers, their hard-boiled style is, as always, a welcome addition to the book.”

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New 100% Biodegradable revives "Rourke of the Radlands", co-created by Wonder Woman artist Liam Sharp

New 100% Biodegradable revives “Rourke of the Radlands”, co-created by Wonder Woman artist Liam Sharp

Cover by Brett Burbridge The latest issue of the ace British digital anthology 100% Biodegradable (Issue 16) is on sale now and of course I’m delighted to report it includes a very special re-presentation of “Rourke of the Radlands” – a hard drinking, hot tempered sword and sorcery I co-created with Wonder Woman artist Liam Sharp back in the 1990s. Further Rourke of the Radlands stories are in…

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Coming Soon, a new comics anthology for younger readers: Hotchpotch

Coming Soon, a new comics anthology for younger readers: Hotchpotch

Biomekazoik Press, the Brtiish independent comics publisher behind the digital comics anthology 100% Biodegradable, are working on a brand new quarterly comic anthology for younger readers, Hotchpotch, launching from  before the end of the year.

Edited by David Hailwood, Hotchpotch is a full colour 40 page children’s comic anthology aimed at 8-12 year olds.

“Once more into the editorial breach I…

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Sneak Peek: 100% Biodegradable Issue 17 - Switchblades and Skowdogs!

Sneak Peek: 100% Biodegradable Issue 17 – Switchblades and Skowdogs!

With Issue 17 of the digital anthology comic 100% Biodegradable nearing completion, here’s a preview of some of the strips appearing inside. In “Capsule” by Brian Pearlman and Armin Ozdic (with colours by Liam O’Connor and letters by Ken Reynolds) a musician seeks shelter from the rain in a hotel from hell. In “Waste Of Time” by Tony Suleri and David Hailwood, a scientist solves mankind’s waste…

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Nun-nuh-Nineteen! New 100% Biodegradable comic out now (warning, contains Zombie Mods and Rockers)

Issue 19 of of the digital anthology 100% Biodegradable is out now on Drivethru and Comicsy, wrapped within the confines of a crab-tastic wrap around cover by Łukasz Kowalczuk. Inside issue 19 of 100% Biodegradable: • A seaside clash between Mods and Rockers is met with nuclear retaliation in “Mods Versus Mutants” by Dave Hailwood, Neil Bryant and Tony Suleri.   • Captain Jerry Kowalski breaks…

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OLD BILL - 100% Biodegradable

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Back in March, I submitted OLD BILL, a short 5-page comic script set in a dystopian future, to Biomekazoik for their 100% Biodegradable anthology. Dave Hailwood, the editor, liked the concept but felt it would work better as a 3-pager. After a couple of rewrites, I’m proud to annouce that OLD BILL will be featured in 100% Biodegradable #14, with art by Tony Suleri.

PAGE ONE – FOUR PANELS

PANEL ONE

Dark Sunrise. Aerial view of a densely populated futuristic city, with impossibly tall skyscrapers and flying cars, somewhere between “Blade Runner” and “The Fifth Element”. Down below, at ground level, we see a classic, beat-up detective car, a Plymouth or a Lincoln, leaving a trail of smoke in the deserted urban road behind it, coming to meet DETECTIVES RAMIREZ and CHEN, two nearly indistinguishable figures around 30-35 years old waiting for the car on a street corner.

1.      DET. CHEN:                         Bill? Is that really our best option?

 2.      DET. RAMIREZ:                  We haven’t seen a murder in 20 years! The ‘droids can’t handle it – two of them have already exploded! No, this isn’t our best option…

PANEL TWO

Over the detectives’ shoulders. We see the classic car abruptly stopping, in style, right in front of them.

3.      SFX (Car):                              SCREEECH

 4.      DET. RAMIREZ:                  …it’s our only one!

PANEL THREE

We see BILL, a sixty-something out of shape white guy, in the driver’s seat, rolling down his window and peeking outside in a tight blue suit that only highlights his huge belly, wearing a sleek pair of sunglasses on his face.

5.      BILL:                         I need a coffee, black with two sugars…none of that capsule crap, and all you’ve got about the case. In that order!

PANEL FOUR

We see Detective Ramirez, holding Bill’s car keys in his hand, and Detective Chen in the foreground, looking at Bill’s back, in the background, with skeptcism, walking away from the two detectives and his car.

6.      DET. RAMIREZ:                  Well, he was the best…

 7.      DET. CHEN:                         And now he’s a freakin’ dinosaur!

PAGE TWO – FIVE PANELS

PANEL ONE

We see Bill, sunglasses hanging from his shirt and a steaming cup of coffee on his hand, crouched near the poorly covered but perfectly decapitated body of a young woman, focused on the body. Detectives Ramirez and Chen and ANDROID 772, a humanoid robot, stand around the corpse. Android holds and reads from what looks like the iPad 500.

1.      ANDROID 772:                    …18 to 25 years old. I estimate a 67% probability of a close link between victim and killer and an 88% probability of the head bvictim’s ID by cranial implant.

2.      BILL:                                     You couldn’t be more wrong, Tin Man!

PANEL TWO

Bill’s POV. We see Bill’s hands over the top half of the young woman’s body, one hand holding a cup of steaming dark-brown coffee and the other pointing to the corpse’s cauterized neck.

3.      BILL:                         Such a clean cut…if the killer only wanted to stop us from IDing her, why not just bash her face in or carelessly rip her head off? And why leave the fingers behind for us to check in the old fingerprinting system? No…the head had to be unharmed…

PANEL THREE

We see Bill, standing over the body, looking ahead, serious, raising the steaming cup up to his lips to take his first sip of coffee.

4.      BILL:                         …because it’s a trophy. We’re dealing with a  serial killer!

PANEL FOUR

We see Detective Chen, shocked, next to Android 772, whose head suddenly explodes.

5.      DET. CHEN:                         A SERIAL KILLER?!

 6.      SFX (Android):                    BOOOM

PANEL FIVE

We see Detective Ramirez, holding his hand out in front towards Bill, who turns his back on him, preparing to leave, and tosses his crumpled empty coffee cup over his shoulder, in the foreground. Detective Chen tries to grab Android 772’s body, staggering around in the background.

7.      DET. RAMIREZ:                  T-Thank you for your input, Bill, though it seems a little…far fetched! We’ll contact you again should the need --

 8.      BILL:                                     -- Your call boys! But, if I were you...I’d pick up the phone before the next one shows up!

 9.      SFX (Android):                      Malfuction! Malfuncrzzzzzt!

PAGE THREE – SIX PANELS

PANEL ONE

Extreme close-up of Bill, placing his eye up to a retinal scanner next to a metal door.

PANEL TWO

We see Bill stepping into an apartment that’s stuck in the late 20th/early 21st century, with all the decorative elements and gadgets from that period, most notably the answering machine and the portable phone on the coffee table, in the middle of the living room. Bill carries a brown paper bag full of groceries.

PANEL THREE

Close-in on Bill’s index finger, pressing a button on the answering machine, which shows the number six, in red, on the calls indicator.

1.      SFX (Button):                        CLICK

 2.      SFX (Answering machine):   You have 6 new messages.

PANEL FOUR

We see the answering machine and the phone on the coffee table, in the foreground, and Bill, in the kitchen, with his back to us and an arm on the open refrigerator door, leaning forward to look for something inside the fridge, in the background.

3.      SFX (Answering machine):   Uh, hi, yeah, it’s Detective Ramirez again. We’re, uh, beginning to think there might be some merit to your serial killer theory, so we’re delighted to inform you we’ve decided to restore your detective privileges…

PANEL FIVE

We see Bill picking up a can of beer from a group of 3 or 4 in the fridge’s bottom shelf. About six severed heads of young women, preserved in a glass jar, in various stages of decomposition, are in the shelves above it.

4.      SFX (Answering machine):   The first briefing is tomorrow morning at 9, at the station. See you there.

 5.      BILL:                                     Well, it’s about damn time!

PANEL SIX

Close-up of Bill, with that sneaky grin back on his face as he takes the first sip of his beer.

6.      BILL:                                     I thought they’d call after the third one!