Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Torchwood "Ma & Par" Strip (SPOILERLY)


Thanks to HeroPress, I learned about a new one-shot online Torchwood comic strip produced by a UK t.v. station for their "Alien Invasion Week." The four-page strip is titled "Ma and Par" and features Jack, Ianto, and Gwen investigating murders at a golf course. I really like the art work, even though it seemed to rely very heavily on photo-reference (still much better than most of the Torchwood Magazine comic strip art).

It's a very short strip so there's not a lot going on, but basically the Torchwood team realize the menace is (what looks to me to be) a giant spider named a "Bull-Craktor," which lays eggs that have a naturally-adaptive camoflauge--in this particular case, they look like golfballs. The giant spider looked to be right out of D&D, Jack kills it in a pretty cliched way (lures it into water and electrocutes it), and there wasn't anything else to make this strip particularly memorable. But it is free, which I guess counts for something . . .

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