Undead End

The vampires are keeping it in the family in Mike Carey’s new comic Cul-De-Sac

- WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL

LARGELY ABSENT FROM comics for the past few years as he focused on his novels published under the name MR Carey, Mike Carey is back with Cul-De-Sac, a new miniseries from Bad Idea. Illustrated by Jonathan Wayshak, the five-parter explores many of the same themes as his recent prose fiction.

"I'm going through a phase where I'm mostly retelling love stories that I love or have loved at different times in my life," Carey tells Red Alert. "My last novel Once Was Willem is kind of a medieval Seven Samurai, while my next is a reinvention of The Outlaw Josey Wales, and the one after that riffs on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, 'The Tinderbox"."