Morgan Gleave’s cartoonish style of art is well suited to a story of anthropomorphised cats and dogs. Carlos Harrison is a likeable rogue in the mould of The Stainless Steel Rat and I wouldn’t be surprised if he turns up again further down the line. The plot fits the extended format perfectly with the small page size meaning that the story doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. The humour is part Red Dwarf, part Ace Trucking and a lot of fun. Holloway fills the issue with lots of bad puns and plenty of references to cartoon cats and dogs of his youth including Snoopy, Garfied and Hong Kong Fooey. is a cat…It’s a story that the book’s editorial refers to as being “admittedly very silly” but it’s none the worse for it. To complicate matters further Kingston is a dog and murderer T.C.
Soon Harrison gets drawn into a plot to murder Kingston, orchestrated by his brother T.C. “Bad Kitty” tells the story of Carlos Harrison, an intergalactic scammer whose plan to rob galactic millionaire Rover Kingston goes horribly wrong. The current issue gives us “Bad Kitty”, a story of a cat, a dog and a thief, courtesy of Holloway and guest artist Morgan Gleave. Where are Starblazer was very much a sci-fi title (launched, like 2000AD, following the great initial success of Star Wars), Sentinel has already given us fantasy (“Scales of Justice”), horror (“Misty Moore”) and comedy (“A Fare to Remember”) as well as plenty of space adventure. Another thing that stands out with this title is the variety. Starblazer in particular had some fantastic creators producing some great comics, featuring work from the likes of Grant Morrison, Ian Kennedy and Mick McMahon, a selection of which was collected in last year’s Starblazer: Space Fiction Adventure in Pictures anthology.ĭoyle and Holloway have clearly studied this very British format (pocket sized, black and white, 64 pages long, self-contained) and what makes it work and re-produced it in Sentinel. One thing that is evident from the get-go with Sentinel is a love of the titles that inspired it. Publisher: Sentinel Publishing/Get My Comics Modelled very closely on DC Thompson’s classic Starblazer and the other ‘Picture Libraries’ it published, can Sentinel bring this format of storytelling to a new generation of readers? Ed Doyle and Alan Holloway’s Sentinel comic has made quite an impact in a short amount of time with six issues released over the course of the past year and coming a very creditable third in the Comic Scene ‘Comics of the Year’ poll for 2020.
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