Smoke #1

Smoke #1.1

by Alex de Campi, Igor Kordey, Leonard O'Grady

In a futuristic London run by a government both morally and financially bankrupt, ex-soldier Rupert Cain signed his own deal with the devil. He works for the government as an assassin, in exchange for his girlfriend and her father being kept safe from harm. But when the father is murdered anyway, Cain has to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and cope with everything he walked away from three years ago. Meanwhile, London descends into crisis as an unusual terrorist group kidnaps the visiting OPEC president and ransoms him for quite peculiar demands.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

48 pages, Paperback

Published June 14, 2005

About the author

Alex de Campi is a New York-based writer with an extensive backlist of critically-acclaimed graphic novels including Eisner-nominated heist noir Bad Girls (Simon & Schuster) and Twisted Romance (Image Comics). Her most recent book was her debut prose novel The Scottish Boy (Unbound). She lives with her daughter, their cat, and a Deafblind pit bull named Tango.

Reviews

[Darnell · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Volume one, not issue one.)

I'm not sure if this would be different if I was from the UK, but this didn't grab me. The writing/art/speculation is all competent enough, I just never engaged that much with the ideas being presented.

[Cam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Violence abounds in this tale of cabals, spies, betrayal and more violence set in an even bleaker future London. First of a trio about an albino assassin and his employers.