Graphic Novel Review - Marcus And Julian Sedgwick - Dark Satanic Mills

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2013 Walker Press - Spoiler alerts A near future Dystopian vision inspired by the work of William Blake, about extreme religious fundamentalism. Britain in a post-nuclear future that has left half of London under-water, is falling into the hands of a viscous new Christian Inquisition, who execute heathens, homosexuals and atheists. Christy England is a motorcycle courier who witnesses an execution by the neo-Nazi-priests and saves a young atheist from a lynch mob. Together with the unbeliever, she heads North to break the deadly cult apart just as it tries to prove there really is a God, but is it just science? There's lots to explore here, but the characters just bounce through a landscape of anarchic dangerous neo-Luddites, irradiated mutant desperados and self-righteous fanatics. It all ends up being very stylized and inconsequential. It ends up with a rather wishy-washy call for tolerance and acceptance, while its William Blake quotations are often way out of context. Very well drawn, but ultimately this goes nowhere special. Arthur Chappell