SALFORD ARTIST LAUNCHES DEBUT COMIC BOOK

Salford-based writer & artist BRIAN GORMAN is preparing to launch an online version of a brand new comic book in the new year. ‘BORDERLINERS – Ceremony Of Innocence’ is a one-off ‘pilot’ to introduce a fast-moving 21st century espionage tale with more than a nod to TV’s ‘Spooks’ and the Jason Bourne movie franchise, not to mention the mind-bending sci-fi stories of Philip K Dick (‘Blade Runner’, ‘Total Recall’, ‘Minority Report’, etc). The intention is to showcase the work on a variety of websites in order to gather positive comments before launching into print. The grittily realistic tale of double-crossed government agents fighting to recover their sanity, and hit back against a corrupt department of M.I.5 was started more than a decade ago. Gorman remembers:

“Back in Wigan, my hometown, I was visiting my writer friend Chris Harvey when we started chatting about some of our favourite TV shows. We’d always loved ‘The Champions’, ‘The New Avengers’ and ‘The Professionals’, and we were trying to think of a new twist we could bring to them. We then had the idea of exploring the agents’ home lives. Just what DID they do between missions? How did they cope with the stresses of putting their lives on the line all the time? Then it hit us – what if they DID have a normal, everyday life BUT it was all fabricated in order to keep them sane and in line?”