One of the five shortlisted entries for the Best Comic category in this year’s British Comic Awards Beast Wagon returns for the second part of its serialised story this November. A book that was described in its initial press material as “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest with talking animals…” I reviewed the first issue earlier this year in our regular ‘Small Pressganged’ column here remarking then that “with an almost grim psychedelia to its ominous, pounding cadence Beast Wagon’s taut and captivating storytelling makes this a brooding thriller to watch.”
Full details on the comic’s release are below but in the meantime here’s a sneak peek at the cover and some interiors from #2.
BEAST WAGON CHAPTER TWO – DREAMTIME
Writer: Owen Michael Johnson
Artist: John Pearson
Letterer: Colin Bell
Publisher: Changeling Studios
Loves are tested.Plans are drawn.
Doses are administered.
Whipsnarl Zoo heats up.
The second chapter of the British Comic Award nominated black comedy from writer Owen Michael Johnson (Raygun Roads, Reel Love) and Illustrator John Pearson, with letters by Colin Bell (Curb Stomp, The Fiction, And Then Emily Was Gone).
— Andy Oliver
Andy Oliver is Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief and site owner. He is also a co-organiser of the annual UK Small Press Day and has been a judge or committee member for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition, the British Comic Awards and the SICBA Awards.