This is perhaps the most epic of the New 52 books I've read so far. It feels massive, and really channels a lot of the Authority (I didn't read much of the original Stormwatch series), where a lot of the characters have been previously, although this works in some ways as an origin. It's full of...
Ever hear a little kid tell you a story? I remember when I was in high school and did work experience in a class for 8 year olds. One of the tasks was for them to write what they did on the weekend and then read it out. The essays usually went like:“I went to the park and played football and then...
Sefton kept trying to find something on the radio other than bad news.‘… actually one of the detectives working on a related inquiry, with no other apparent links to the other victims…’‘That it’s come to this, that a Metropolitan Police detective inspector can be stabbed to death by what certainl...
The smell of a library, the echoes of a concert hall. It was Saturday morning, and the match would be on Wednesday. Quill stood in the entrance area, forcing himself not to habitually watch the people that passed by, carrying boxes or pushing carts. A poster indicated that there was a New Age fai...
TWENTY-FOUR Lofthouse lay on the ground, panting. She was in absolute darkness. She’d bloody well left her pack on the other side of the chamber when she’d run at those things. She had her torch, and what was in her shoulder bag . . . Yes, it was still here . . . and she’d...
He was looking up at just that. Sefton and Costain looked over in surprise too. Ross raised her head from her endless scrolling through computerized bills records from various London boroughs. They’d all got back to that, letting their eyes cover page after page to see if ...