Serial Killer: 1 (Read Em and Weep)

London 1975. The Sex Pistols do their first gig at the Marquee. Death Race 2000 and Rollerball are on at the cinema. The first Macdonalds has just opened. And women are banned from wearing trousers in the office. Meet Dave Maudling editor of The Spanker Britains most popular weekly comic. Hes a liquorice-pipe-chewing man-child and the worlds laziest serial killer. Actually he hasnt killed anyone...yet. Hes intent on killing off his readers by inserting lethal information into his comic. But then something unexpected and wonderful happens... This is Daves world so hes also being blackmailed by a monster from his childhood. He has a strange desire to date fur coats. And his femme fatale mother Jean is nagging him to solve her murder. Yes shes dead but is she really just a figment of his imagination? As he sets out to discover the truth about her death despite casting himself as the Villain in his life story Dave begins to turn into a Hero. From Pat Mills Godfather of British comics and creator of 2000AD and Kevin ONeill award-winning artist-creator of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comes a dark and bittersweet comedy of life in the 1970s of flawed and eccentric characters strange passions and revenge for a lost childhood.