{"id":13271,"date":"2015-03-22T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=13271"},"modified":"2015-03-21T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:55:57","slug":"the-strange-investigators-01-the-snake-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2015\/03\/22\/the-strange-investigators-01-the-snake-job\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Investigators 01: The Snake Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy <\/strong>Luke Melia<\/strong> & Bobby Pe\u00c3\u00b1afiel<\/strong>
\nISBN: 978-1-50581-207-7<\/p>\n

At the luxury end of the self-publishing spectrum is this superbly high-end production number: a proper full-colour graphic novel in everything but page count.<\/p>\n

Luke Melia and his collaborative artistic cohorts have been making superbly engaging contemporary genre stories for a while now (see <\/strong>Occulus<\/strong> and <\/strong>The White Room of the Asylum<\/strong>) and this light-hearted paranormal lark is the first chapter of their next graphic novel foray.<\/p>\n

Complete in one issue, <\/strong>The Snake Job<\/strong> introduces young entrepreneurs Alex<\/em>, Katelyn<\/em> and Tony<\/em> who have found a unique niche market for their services: so unique, in fact, that there’s no money in it and precious few customers.<\/p>\n

The newly launched Strange Investigators<\/em> – that’s a job description not a character assessment – aren’t having the best time getting the business on an even footing. Investigating \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anything unusual or unexplained\u00e2\u20ac\u009d hasn’t been the cash-cow they expected and they really need to make some money to pay for all the really expensive paranormal detection kit they’re using.<\/p>\n

That’s why, after a long period of prevarication, Alex finally agrees to accept \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Snake Job\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Katelyn’s had on her desk for weeks.<\/p>\n

Alex claims there’s no mystery to how a big serpent got on to a tropical island beach, but Tony and Katelyn think his strident reluctance to take the case is simply because their CEO is afraid of wasps\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

With the lights cut off and no other choice, three days later Alex and Tony are on an all-expenses-included jaunt paid for by a company eager to build an hotel on some nice unspoiled beaches.<\/p>\n

The afflicted isle is pretty much as imagined, and the lads aren’t expecting much more than sand, sunburn and poking an adder with a high-tech stick. They couldn’t be more wrong\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

This sucker is big, it’s proper supernatural and the natives aren’t especially keen to see some outsiders trying to kill it with flamethrowers and explosives\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Ranging from wryly trenchant to outright hilarious, this funny foray into fantastic worlds and humdrum zero-hours Contretemps of the Unknown promises to be another superb and unmissable treat.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a9 2015 Luke Melia.
\nSelf published and available to buy on Amazon in print and also as a PDF version to buy on Luke’s gumroad page ( https:\/\/gumroad.com\/lukemelia<\/span><\/a>) at \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pay whatever you want – even free\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Luke Melia & Bobby Pe\u00c3\u00b1afiel ISBN: 978-1-50581-207-7 At the luxury end of the self-publishing spectrum is this superbly high-end production number: a proper full-colour graphic novel in everything but page count. Luke Melia and his collaborative artistic cohorts have been making superbly engaging contemporary genre stories for a while now (see Occulus and The … <\/p>\n

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