Tag Archive | "Harker"

Harker returns (at last!)

Saturday, March 17, 2012

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It’s been a long time coming, but Roger Gibson and Vince Danks can finally reveal the reason there’s been no Harker for the last 17 months…. they’ve got themselves a book deal with Titan Books: “Roger Gibson and Vince Danks have just signed a three book deal with Titan Books, which includes a hardcover international [...]

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New Harker and Gravestown from Gibson and Danks…

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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It’s been quite a while since we had any news regarding Harker, a series I very quickly came to love in 2009 and 2010, written by Roger Gibson and drawn by Vince Danks. This was just a little of my praise for issue 1 & 2: “This is one of those books that I knew [...]

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Harker – The Murder Club Part 1

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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Whilst we await Volume 3 of the Harker series by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks, Gibson has decided to share with us, over at the Harker blog, the first part of his Harker novel; The Murder Club. Publisher unknown as yet, but hopefully we’ll see it soon. In the meantime it goes a little something [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, October 28, 2010

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As another Thursday rolls around Alex Fitch pauses from selecting his Halloween costume and carving digital pumpkins to fill us in on the latest shows he is involved in, including a chat with a (thoroughly disreputable but we love them anyway) pair who are firm faves with the FP blog. As ever for more information [...]

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Missing Harker? Welcome to Gravestown…..

Sunday, October 24, 2010

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It’s been a few months since the last issue of Harker. And anyone who reads it will no doubt be missing it terribly. But Roger Gibson and Vince Danks have a very good reason for their absence from the shelves – it seems they’re very, very close to putting the finishing touches to getting it [...]

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DCI Harker’s Whitby getaway; goths, football and murders – life just finds a way to annoy this man.

Monday, August 2, 2010

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Harker Volume 2 – The Woman In Black by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press Anyone who regularly reads the FPI blog will know I’m a huge fan of Harker. Take this quote that the Harker boys have put on the back of this volume: “A great detective thriller with intriguing story, wonderful art, [...]

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Harker issue 12 – a most satisfying conclusion….

Friday, June 25, 2010

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Harker issue 12 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press The final issue of Book Two, and a most satisfying conclusion to “The Woman In Black” mystery it is too. I’ll be reviewing the collected Book 2 in a little more depth soon, so I’ll keep this brief. To be honest, I’ve already said [...]

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Harker 11 – Murders, Goths and Roy Of The Rovers?

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Harker issue 11 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press I can’t really say any more about Harker than I already have (see here for all the examples so far – it’s fair to say I’m a fan); so I’ll simply state yet again that it’s consistently entertaining and wonderfully enjoyable stuff and issue [...]

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“In my line of work you see a lot of death” – irritable, grumpy and wonderful; Harker’s back

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Harker issue 10 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press Here we go again….. by now you know how much I enjoy Harker (see the review of Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon for a reminder), so when I got the latest issue I was almost tempted just to write a quick piece announcing [...]

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Harker twitter…

Saturday, December 5, 2009

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It could have been an excuse just to hype the Harker comic (which I do rather enjoy – see the review of  Volume 1 here), but instead Harker’s new twitter feed is full of all the great one liners and sarcastic funny stuff that makes the comic so much fun. Here’s the first few tweets [...]

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“Some bloody holiday this is” – Harker issue 9

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Harker issue 9 Plot, story, script – Roger Gibson. Plot, art – Vincent Danks Ariel Press. And here we are again, another issue of Harker, another review (for the others try here). By now you can probably write these for yourself. But for those who haven’t been paying attention this is my standard description of [...]

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Harker Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon – One of the best of 2009.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Harker Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon Plot, story, script – Roger Gibson. Plot, art – Vincent Danks Ariel Press. Anyone reading the blog over the past 9 months or so will have surely picked up on my great love of Harker. I’ve championed it since issue 1 and every month have delivered positive review [...]

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Harker issue 8 – wonderful business as usual for the nation’s grumpiest cop…

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Harker 8 By Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press Oh, I may as well give up on this review right here. By now you know I really enjoy this right? You’ve maybe seen the reviews here, here, here, here and here? Or maybe read the blurb on the back of Harker Volume 1 by [...]

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Harker; BICS, Annotations and Issue Zero…

Friday, October 2, 2009

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I like Harker, the crime comic by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks. To see how much you merely have to trawl the FPI archive – start here. Well, this weekend at the British International Comics Show Vince Danks and Roger Gibson will be selling their hearts out, with (hopefully) issue 8 of Harker and copies [...]

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Harker issue 7 – It’s great. But you all knew I’d say that by now.

Friday, September 11, 2009

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Harker 7 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press At this point, after four glowing reviews of the first Harker storyline I should just be writing a quick recap, a quick mention of the new issue and assuring you that the first issue of this second storyline is just as strong, just as good, [...]

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