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Harker is the gritty new British police comic from Ariel Press, written by Roger Gibson (Gravestown, The Bishop, Mad Girl) with art by Vince Danks (Sapphire, Doctor Who).

Detective Chief Inspector Harker and Detective Sergeant Critchley are an eccentric pair of cops specialising in serial murder cases. Mixing up the best of British police dramas (Inspector Frost, Life on Mars, Morse, Wire in the Blood, Waking the Dead) with classic US dramas (Columbo, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, McCloud), the Harker series brings you monthly thrills and action, with superb art and witty, incisive scripts.

Book One:The Key of Solomon
(issues 1-6)

Book One features Harker and Critchley on the trail of ritualistic satanic murders - a complex web of lies, deceit and ghoulish horror, taking place in a Secret London of catacombs, blood soaked churches and Satanic Lodges.

Detective Chief Inspector Harker is in his late fifties, a copper set in his ways, old fashioned and irritable, eccentric and grumpy, socially inept, a loner, very much an outsider in today's modern police force. But he's still a superb detective, accustomed to cutting away the red herrings and getting right to the heart of a case.

Detective Sergeant Critchley is Harker's faithful partner, a 21st Century copper, tooled up with all the latest gizmos and a hit with the birds - very much the yin to Harker's yang.

All six issues of this first series will be available to buy from our shop, or to download as high resolution PDFs directly from the download section. They’ll be released monthly, with issue one already available to buy, and subsequent issues available on the 1st of every month. There are also FREE weekly downloads, podcasts, videos, sketches and more! Keep us bookmarked, and visit Roger's blog (updated a couple of times a week) to find out the latest news!