Set in an alternate 1940s USA where magic is commonplace and WWII was won through occult means, Hope follows Mallory Hope, former New York cop turned Hollywood PI and magician who returned from the nightmares of war just to find that the nightmares came back with him.
With a demon attached to his soul and his wife seduced by magic while he was gone, vanishing and taking their young son with her, Hope knows the heavy cost being a practitioner of the dark arts can exact.
That was then. This is now. Reel One of Hope… In The Shadows
saw Mallory called in to investigate a cursed film. Now, in Reel Two,
Hope’s wife Alice is back. This is not the reunion Mallory was hoping
for…
Guy Adams: The idea with this series was always to
expand, not just in pure comics real estate (we’re twice the size, a
conservatory extension of bonus horror). Ongoing series need to unfurl I
think, to keep changing the stakes, the shape of the world.
Read the full interview at the 2000AD website.
And now, this weeks releases...
2000AD Prog 2311
Cover: Steven Austin / Jim Boswell (col)
In this issue:
Judge Dredd: Rematch by Ken Niemand (w) Steven Austin (a) Jim Boswell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Terror Tales: In The Wood by John Tomlinson (w) Lee Milmore (a) Simon Bowland (l)
Enemy Earth: Book One by Cavan Scott (w) Luke Horsman (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Hope by Guy Adams (w) Jimmy Broxton (a) Jim Campbell (l)
Finn: Origins by Pat Mills & Tony Skinner, Jim Elston, Kevin Wicks and Liam Sharp
Rebellion ISBN 978-178618674-4, 7 December 2022, 160pp, £18.99 / $25.00. Available via Amazon.
Finn is a cab driver by day, and a witch by night, part of a coven dedicated to protecting humanity from the agents of the old 'Great Ones', the ancient intergalactic beings who separated humanity from their beastly nature, and have maintained control ever since. These arcane and anarchic adventures from Pat Mills, Tony Skinner, Jim Elston, Kevin Wicks, and Liam Sharp are collected for the first time.
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