Hellgate: London

Hellgate: London #GN

by Ian Edginton, Steve Pugh (Artist)

MI5 agent Lyra Darius discovers a human charnel house in the heart of London while tailing Lord Sumerisle, the recently resigned Home Office Minister for Internal Affairs. She's soon entangled in a bloody intrigue with Knights Templar, and everything is building up to All Hallows Eve.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

104 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2007

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

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

Backstory for a game that looked amazing then disappeared into the trashbin of history. Art is not that good and the story does little more than set up a pretty standard apocalypse underdog group. Fun trip down memory lane I suppose.

[Uroš Novaković · Rating 5 out of 5]

I expected this to be garbage, not gonna lie. But I actually enjoyed this.
Played the game many years ago, and after reading this prequel comic I kinda want to read the actual novels now.

[Cale]

While the story isn't anything significant (a MacGuffin quest with three characters chasing it, most of whom aren't developed to any extent), this book captures the aesthetics of Hellgate perfectly, and that more than anything else would be the reason to read this. It's such a unique concept for a world, and the imagery here focuses on that, so even though the story isn't that important, it's still worth a look.

[Petalbooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

The plot is - wait. What plot?! Lots of glossy pages can make up for a weak storyline and poor execution. I thought the game (from what I've read and heard about it) was pretty cool; but the comic surely isn't.

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good precursor to the Hellgate London Trilogy of novels as well as the game itself. Solid artwork and enough charater development to bring you in wihtout becoming tedious. As a acomic book geek and fan of the hellgate london realm, I felt this fit in quite nicely.

[Jst1man · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this Trilogy... From start to finish it is fast paced and action packed.

If you love the idea of Demons, Knights, Magic, & Modern Day Warriors this is the series for you.

Based on the game. Hellgate: London

Note: If you are a religious person this is not the book for you.

[Lightwhisper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good and to read at a fast pace.

Recomendo, mas podia ser melhor.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

The three human factions come together to complete a quest against Hell.