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Synopsis by Gavin Hanly
Review by Robert Cornell
Summaries and reviews contain spoilers for this issue.

The Chimes of Midnight - Part 3 Script: Ian Edginton Art: Steve Yeowell Letters: Simon Bowland

The Baron's masterplan...

Synopsis: Isaac Newton and Augustus escape from the Baron's cages using a lockpick hidden in Newton's boot. He tells Augustus that he drank all his youth elixirs in one go - so he's fitter, but now mortal like Augustus. They discover that the Baron is creating an army of clockwork robots and that he's working with Toten, who wants Newton's soul to power one of his machines...

RC: A former favourite that just doesn’t do it for me any more.

Captain Jack has been displaced from his own strip. Newton’s a good substitute but The Red Seas has lost that zip that made the early adventures fun and seems to have become bogged down in an extended prologue.

Yeowell’s artwork is the same as it’s ever been. I like it for its simplicity. Others hate it for the same reason. I think we can all agree that it’s a style all of his own.

Casinos online blackjack Script: Dan Abnett Art: Anthony Williams Letters: Ellie De Ville

Back on the streets...

Synopsis: Dexter's nerves have been fixed and he now has cybernetic feeds into his headcase. They bust into one of the Mover's buildings and take back Isobel...

RC: So, with Demi’s resurrection and Dexter’s operation, Abnett has erased every single plot development of since the end of Eurocrash.

Every. Single. One.

A couple of good lines and a lame Star Wars reference just doesn’t cut it.

Good artwork can elevate a dull strip. Here the two complement each other’s dullness.

Script: Bob Byrne

Ouch...

Synopsis: A tiny civilisation seeks to defend itself from a rock climbing explorer...

RC: The fun in Twisted Tales is often working out what’s going on, some are not so much murky as opaque. Unless I missed something, this was a pretty straightforward one and a bit “so what?” as a result.

It looked great, though.

Queen Of the Zombies - Part 8 Script: Pat Mills Art: Leigh Gallagher Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Defoe meets the clockpunks...

Synopsis: Defoe defeats Baroque with a power sabre, but La Voisin escapes. As she does, she sets all of Hooke's clockpunks against the partygoers and Defoe. Defoe fights through to try and reach La Voisin.

Elsewhere, Defoe's men learn that Bodie was once the leader of a press gang. Before they can do anything about it, they're called to fight the Spiriter and the escaping Zombies...

RC: It’s been a good week for villainous dialogue: “now cut him open that I may lay my eggs in him!” Ouch, now that’s what I call a threat.

Defoe has displaced the ABC Warriors is Mills’ repertoire as the actiony one. Defoe has a gang, much like Hammerstein’s. Defoe meets zombies. Defoe kills zombies. There’s no agenda beyond that and, as a result, Defoe is a joyous gore-soaked romp through seventeenth century England.

However, Mills’ best work combined (past tense) politics with action, that’s why Defoe will never be a classic. Mills is content with his creation’s limitations.

Gallagher continues his superb work, artist and strip perfectly matched.

RC: Good-OK-boring-OK-good.

With two historicals, the weekly’s mix is a little unbalanced. In theory Red Seas and Sin Dex are big hitters but for me they’re past their best, giving the impression of a post-Cradlegrave lull, waiting for the next instalment of the Dan Francisco saga.

Best Story: Judge Dredd