Reviewer Glenn Carter says some very nice things about Shriek! over at www.comicsvillage.com this week. He gives it 9.5 out of 10 and sums up by saying: "I recommend and recommend very highly."
I'm particularly pleased with the review as, out of all the comics I've written and published, I often feel Shriek! is the one that has been least successful. A four-story anthology, Shriek! made its debut at the ill-fated Brighton Comic Expo at the tail end of 2005 along with the original versions of Blood Psi and Hero Killers. The printing on all three books was truly terrible with the art on at least two of the stories in Shriek! being pretty much ruined as a result.
When it became obvious the quality of printing was harming sales, I took the decision to swallow the financial loss and have both Blood Psi and Hero Killers reprinted by a far superior printer (this one: www.cambrian-printers.co.uk) to the one I'd been using. It worked out pretty well with the shiny new versions of both books being picked up by Diamond and, apparently, one of them even won an award of some kind!
I didn't go down the same route with Shriek! as, by that stage, I'd decided that not all of the material in the comic was good enough to merit it. As a result, it remains largely unknown and unloved. Until now...
1 comment:
I was wondering if you were going to reprint Shreik, but i reckon you're probably better off concentrating on your new stories rather than going back and reprinting all your old ones. Saying that, Reprinting Hero Killers and Blood Psi was definately worth it.
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