Paragon #25 (Out Now)

For any comic, let alone a small press/independent comic to last 25 issues these days is actually quite an achievement and the publisher is rightly pleased to announce this. However I only came across this by accident through writing a review of the Spence Nero Club one-shot that I had only come across by chance. 

The editor kindly offered to send me a pdf but I decided to actually order the current issue and the previous two because I do not like reading comics on the computer screen. Call me old fashioned but I am a firm believer in the print medium and will go to nerd heaven with that view.

The magazine sized comic is an anthology and like all comics of this type has variable content. However there is actually plenty to recommend this comic, the Spencer Nero stories made the price of entry worthwhile alone.

 In Paragon #23 we learn the origin of the severed head in the jar we say in the fan club one shot plus there's an entertaining three page horror story from the editor one Dave Candlish that would make any mainstream anthology. 

The Christmas edition #24 contained more of our favourite all-British hero Spencer Nero plus a story about the Bulldog that made the strip more understandable and certainly had better art than in the previous issue. There's also another worthy short story.

And so up to date with the silver anniversary issue which is worth picking up as a tryout. The double length Spencer Nero team-up with the British Bulldog was a great read and certainly the art suits the story. Eldritch The last Unicorn was also a mystery tale worthy of it's American equivalents. 

There are other stories which didn't appeal to me for one reason or another but there is more than enough worthy in Paragon for me to recommend you pick up the anniversary edition. I will certainly be back for the next issue.

Rating: 3.5 Stars 

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