Harker: The Black Hound Part Two Coming Soon
From Time Bomb Comics
As a backer of this and many other comics from Time Bomb Comics, I’m pleased to see that Harker: The Black Hound Part Two is coming to print and digital in February 2023. This is an excellent character, and I really enjoyed the first part and previous Harker adventures.
The cult comic completes its second story
"Harker is just the finest police procedural you’re ever going to read. A dazzling display of sparkling dialogue, intense action, and just the right smattering of perfectly pitched comedy along the way. You can’t do better than Harker. 10/10." - Richard Bruton, Comicon.com
Since coming to Time Bomb Comics in 2019, dark comedy crime series Harker has quickly become a favourite of the British Indie comic scene. This new comic finishes out the second storyline and will be published in February after a highly successful Kickstarter pre-order campaign.
DCI Harker is enjoying a holiday in Whitby, and the last thing he wants is to be drawn into solving a murder. So when a famous novelist is killed right in front of him, he decides he's a suspect and relaxes on the dodgems. DS Critchley, however, needs his help, especially when another body washes in with the tide. Could Harker really be the murderer? He's certainly grumpy enough…
Following on from the huge success of the previous story, Harker: The Book of Solomon, and the first volume of The Black Hound, Time Bomb Comics and creators Vincent Danks (Gravestown, Doctor Who Magazine, Red Dwarf Magazine) and Roger Gibson (Torchwood, Gravestown, Mad Girl), and colourist Andrew Richmond (Gravestown, Dead by Dawn) are excited to bring this finale to fans.
Like the previous Harker books, this graphic novel is part two of two: a full colour, sixty-eight page perfect bound volume of this thrilling crime series - a unique homage to classic tv detective shows, filled with humour, wit, adventure and mystery.
DCI Harker is a homage to the classic tv detectives: he has the shabby dress sense of Columbo, drives a car Morse would love, has the grumpy demeanour of Gene Hunt from Ashes to Ashes, possesses the quirky oddness of Monk and displays the dazzling brilliance of Sherlock Holmes. He’s a classic hard-boiled English copper in his late fifties: moody, antisocial and almost incapable of functioning in the modern-day police force. DS Critchley, his faithful assistant, is his foil - modern and smart with an eye for the girls, but equally strange and eccentric.
Time Bomb Comics chief, Steve Tanner spoke about what makes Harker such a unique series, and why he thinks the series resonates with readers in the UK and worldwide:
“The Black Hound Part Two completes Time Bomb's mission to bring the original Harker series to a completely new audience, and make it available again for all those who loved it the first time. I'm very much one of them!”
Harker The Black Hound Part Two will be published in February 2023.
