Geek Syndicate Issue 8 | Page 124

Geek Syndicate The Magpye: Circus Writer: Chris Lynch Cover Artist: Stuart Tipples Publisher: Self Published Buy It From: Amazon.co.uk. The first two chapters of the book can be read after this page. For a thirty page downloadable preview of the book, please check out this site. What is The Magpye: Circus? “It’s… Batman meets The Punisher meets Harry Potter meets the Sixth Sense. A comic book that became a novel, it’s got ghosts, guns, magicians, dirty cops, witches, the undead, cannibalism, crime lords, a freak-show circus, and a blimp.” Why should we pick this up? “A genre-spanning novel, The Magpye is for fans of pulp action adventure, superheroes, horror, and crime thrillers. It contains things like this…”F*** me,” White murmured, “He killed a f****** building.” Chris Lynch has previous written for a number of UK comics publishers, including Markosia, and been featured in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Before he started writing comics, Chris was published in a large number of horror and science fiction magazines” 124