Hinterkind #4

Hinterkind #4

by Ian Edginton, Franceso Trifogli (Illustrator)

Prosper's reunited with Asa but that's all the good news there is. Along with Angus and Jon Hobb, they're prisoners - the patchwork survivors of old America led by Colonel Doctor Godwin. Godwin intends to survive at any cost, but it's Prosper and the others who may pay the price.

Genres: Graphic Novels Comics, Fantasy

Comic

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.

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Reviews

[Questingforaquest · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is probably a good series,just not my cup of tea. I'm not a fan of really really dark stories, especially when it's one of those things that's in a post-apocalyptic setting and humanity is dying out, but I wanted to give this one a chance. Got four issues in, and now I'm just not feeling compelled to continue. There's some interesting concepts going on, I guess, and the interpersonal relationships could get interesting over time by the looks of it, but right now nothing's grabbing me and pulling me in and the constant deaths and grim themes and some of the more twisted things going on--no one can be trusted, if you die suddenly by a bullet wound you're lucky because of how widespread sadism is, so on and so forth--are just kind of hopeless to me, and I don't like stories with too little hope. I know most of these characters are going to die or have something really gruesome happen to them and so there's just no point in getting emotionally involved in this story--and if I'm not going to get emotionally involved, barring either really good execution or a well-delivered message, there's no point for me. So yeah, some people will probably like it, but it's just not for me.