LOXLEY- Honour Among Thieves
Every generation takes the Robin Hood legend and re-works it. Adding to it and building on what has been done before. This is a post-Tarantino/21st Century take on the story. Still set in the grim middle-ages, but seen through modern eyes.
STORY: In 1198 King Richard returns to Britain from his war in France to try
and hunt down and kill the rebel army led by Robin of Loxley.
Richard is unbalanced, his experiences in the Crusade having left him with post-traumatic
stress disorder.
His men manage to capture a boy who they believe is part of Loxley's gang.
However, the boy, Much Miller, is in fact just a wannabe and doesn't know anything that can
help Richard track the outlaws. He is tortured anyway.
Lady Marian, Norman noble-woman and secretly Loxley's lover, is witness to Much's ordeal
and seeks to get word to the rebels.
She enlists the aid of Brother Tuck, a monk with more interest in the serving maids
than in scripture.
Can Loxley and his outlaws free the boy?
CREATORS:
John A. Short has worked in many different areas of the comics industry, including British newspaper strips and Rip Off Comix Magazine in America. He has also self-published titles like Armageddon Patrol and Octobriana.
Blake O'Farrell has worked for Marvel UK as well as Epic Comics in the States. He worked with John on the Octobriana mini-series in 1997 which won the British National Comic Award for best new British Comic that year.
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