All At Sea

There’s something fishy ahoy as Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard return to Wild’s End

FIVE YEARS AFTER its previous instalment concluded, writer Dan Abnett and artist INJ Culbard are returning to Wild’s End. This Boom Studios series is set in Lower Crowchurch, an alternate 1930s English village occupied by extraterrestrials, whose inhabitants are all depicted as animals. Featuring a whole new range of anthropomorphic characters, the six-parter acts as a perfect jumping-on point, they say.

“With the first three volumes, we felt we’d very much told the story of the original cast and brought them to a relatively happy ending and a nice point of closure,” Abnett tells Red Alert. “It made sense to us to start ‘somewhere else’ with a new group and find out what happened to other people during the invasion. So it very much serves the ‘new start’ requirement, but also makes creative and dramatic sense to us.”