Honor Among Punks

My scanner is not working and this is the only image of the cover I could find. Now let us start with some background on this amazing comic and me. I love Sherlock Holmes and I was in a punk band for many years. So you take these and combine then and you have a most buy for little old me. I sought it out to no avail and I found it after much time and forgetting the name. I was shown 2 issues back in the mid nineties by a friend and was hooked right then and there. This is a common trend in my comic book love someone shows it to me and I seek like a hound.

This comic is about a world where WWI was not so bad to be honest and WWII never happened making it so the British Isle never drifted away from the Victorian way of thinking dressing and thinking. Because of this  we get this world where Hitler died an old man with no power and hence the world truly never learned of real country wide evil. A young girl american in 1988 moves across to the pond as all Americans to this day seem to dream about and gets involved in with a girl Sharon Ford and her best friend Sam. During this time she gets involved with a gang know as the Bakerfields who are at war with another gang know as the Goths. The battle leads up to great violence and during a fight a robbery happens and fingers are wagging at all sides. Like any good mystery it is a rollicking good fun. This was not the story arc that got it firmly placed here though.

The second arc is the reason it is here all by itself which tells a tale of female empowerment that goes to a very dark place. It delves into what it truly means to hate oneself and how far one can be pushed around by society till the breaking point is reached. The only word I think I should use is this story arc is powerful and heavy handed in a good way to teach us how it truly feels to feel like an outcast something everyone tends to forget once that situation is removed from our lives. Sexuality is the way they handle that here and it is truly amazing. 

The art is to die for and I wish I had a few sample images but I do not due to the scanner not working when I turned it on to start working on this project. The reason I picked this comic up though is mainly due to my love of Sandman Mystery Theater which was drawn by the wonderful Guy Davis and this is another great comic to check out if you can find it.  He wrote the second arc the one that got it placed on here. The great Gary Reed did the writing of the first arc and some of his deadworld stuff may be on a future list if I can dig up my copies. I truly like to re-read or have the comic as a reference when doing this articles. Now like always beacuse I know people tned to be lazy here is a Buy It button for the world to use. This comic is rather rare but it tends to be on amazon randomly.