Sometimes when reading an indie book, you get a really bad feeling afterwards. It's not because you've just read something bad, or tasteless, or overly violent (Blood Psi is none of those). It's because you know this comic would never get the mainstream attention it really deserves, and I'll go out on a limb and say that Blood Psi is easily better than 95% of the "mainstream" US titles I've read this year. It's really something brilliant.

Written by Andy Winter, illustrated by Keith Burns and with a brilliant colour cover by Declan Shalvey (of Hero Killers fame with Andy). It's a really professional package, and would look at home on any comic book shop's shelves. Keith's interior art is really eye-catching, and he uses the negative space incredibly well. The contrast between the black and white obviously works well for this type of vampire story, but Keith utilises it incredibly well, each panel really fitting in well, and I could honestly find very little wrong with the interior art pages, only a few faces looking off in longer shots.

In story terms, Andy's created a two-in-one, that really misleads you. Not wanting to give too much away, the story points you in a completely different direction, and suddenly hits with you a fantastic ending that just comes out of nowhere. But it really works, and changes the whole story. Mike Carey's quote of "a final reveal that makes everything you've just seen mean something else entirely" is spot on. The rest of the story is near perfect. Some lines seem a bit out of place, but it's nothing that detracts from the quality of the book. And it really is of high quality.

Overall, it's comic I can't recommend enough. Andy shows he can reach that high standard of Hero Killers, maybe even go above it, and hopefully he'll still be writing books of this quality for a while yet. Keith Burns really shows what he's made of, the interior art some of the best use of black and white seen since Frank Miller pulled it off in Sin City.