The 77 #3

The latest issue of small press comic The 77 arrived earlier this week but I've only just got around to reading it spurred on by the arrival of three, yes three packages of comics several of which will be up for review in due course. My tastes in comics may be changing and diamond going out the window but there'll always be comics in my life!

This is the third issue of The 77 which is funded by Kickstarter and is an anthology of various strips with varied art & writing but always entertaining which after all is the reason we actually read comics. Although the collective are managing to get stuff out and printed having continuing strips in anything less than monthly does sometimes leave the reader having to try and remember what has gone before in one or two case.

The top strips in my opinion (and in no particular order) are:

Division 77 by Dave Heely (w) & Sinclair Elliot (a)a science fiction story about human soldiers serving a master that simply destroys life everywhere it goes unless they serve is finally picking up pace and I await further installments with interest. 

The Screaming Hand by Kek-W (w) & Conor Boyle (a) is also picking up speed and promising to be an interesting adventure as physicist Paul Stoneman pursues the people who kidnapped his wife. The strange hand appears and kills those hindering him and seemingly helps but is it actually on his side?

Penny Pentagram appears in Part One of Howling Moonshine by D.Thomas (w) & J. Roydon (a). A werewolf is loose in London and penny needs a book about the curses that makes men werewolves. Trouble is when she gets to Camden it's in the hands of a handsome stranger. Is he friend or foe....

I also thought Matilda Atkins and the Amulet of Destiny by Michael Powell (w) & Sarah Millman was a cute read and hope for more of this one.

There quite a few other stories though the two funnies don't really appeal. Maybe I just read them on the wrong day. This bloody pandemic is getting me down since I have to be extra careful. 

Overall this comic is a sterling effort by Benksy & his team of creators and comes recommended as solid read.

Rating 4 Stars.

Available from: getmycomics.com/The77