'Writer John Richard Farman and artist John Howard have created a phenomenal book that may have courted some controversy given its central premise, but the wider questions it asks are valid ones.'

 

Website wow 24/7, recently revealed 5 of the top comics in the burgeoning Glasgow comic scene. Vital Publications Royal Descent made the cut, here’s what Gary Watson had to say..

ROYAL DESCENT

Taking the members of the UK’s Royal Family, changing their names and dropping them in the middle of a fight to the death for the crown, we see familiar faces fighting it out in Royal Descent. There’s a hint of Battle Royale or The Hunger Games with this that sees a fairly brutal series of televised kills, as the masses soak up the latest reality TV show that may have gone too far. The presenters give this a matter-of-fact feel and the result is entertainment and unrest in the wider population in a country not too dissimilar to our own. A satirical comic that was recently remastered and re-released through Vital Publishing, writer John Richard Farman and artist John Howard have created a phenomenal book that may have courted some controversy given its central premise, but the wider questions it asks are valid ones.

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