Loner was a strip that originally appeared in the short lived Wildcat comic and was carried on for a while in the Eagle when the titles were merged as is the British practice of dealing with it's failing anthologies.
This is not a new collection from Rebellion though I did purchase mine when it came out. I read it in two sessions rather a long time apart. The reason being that though there is some imaginative work on this strip the stories and dangers do get a wee bit repetitive especially as the two thirds of the book are set on the same bloody planet!
And therein lay another problem. Wildcat had a rather unusual format. All the stories tied in to each other more or less simultaneously and having only ever read the first two issues and one previous collection there is rather a jolt as the survivors of Earth suddenly appear settled in this story (how?) before Loner buggers off into space to be a Bounty Hunter again.
By the time I reached this point I admit to being a little bored. As Wildcat was conceived as a kind of "junior" 2000AD of sorts it suffers very much from a lack of characterisation and even the odd mascot which comes and goes is given little chance.
The stories are one short punch-up and that's about it with our hero just scrapping through by incredulous luck or really lazy plotting.
Rating 2 Stars (Eventually disappoints)
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