Radical Comics is publishing Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead, a four-issue miniseries created by Steve Pugh and Warren Ellis (story by Ellis, written and illustrated by Pugh).
The series is about “Ghosts. The cities of the future have grown ankle-deep in ghosts, also known as ‘blue lights’, them as they graze off the electromagnetic waste of a billion wireless Internet connections. Most can only drift, witless and lost, harmless. Rarely, though, something comes through with enough marbles to cause real trouble.
“And that’s where Alice Hotwire, Detective Exorcist, comes in. A break-in at London’s Maximum Security Necropolis triggers a surge of violent, brutal hauntings.
“Hotwire’s investigation takes her into the heart of darkness within the Necropolis, where she unearths a conspiracy to plague the city with a legion of mutated ghouls. Her detective instincts may have led her to the truth, but when the restless dead stage a bloody revolt, it’ll take much more than that to survive long enough to do anything about it.”
Radical President and Publisher Barry Levine said “I see this as one of our biggest new titles of 2009. When our Editor-in-Chief Dave Elliott brought the project to me, I knew I wanted this to be part of Radical’s library. Steve Pugh’s artwork is incredible, and the Alice character is equal parts beautiful and scrappy. The story itself is the perfect blend of supernatural, science fiction and adventure.”
The series is up to #3 of 4, which will be released on 20 May.