And here it is. Issue 1 of the original version of, Warwick Fraser-Coombe's: Revenger. Enjoy! (Wossy beware!)

It seems that there's more than one Revenger in town.

Jonathan Ross has penned a title called The Revenger, with artwork by Ian Churchill which is to be released next year. So despite having had my own Revenger running through my head for over a decade (originally based on a short story I wrote in the late nineties), and having put the past couple of years writing and illustrating my own comic version, I'm stuck in the position of having to reluctantly rename the title to avoid any potential clash.

It's a hard thing to do, as I've been carrying Revenger with me for a while now, dragging him around the various conventions, from the Super London Comic Con to Kapow, where he always proudly took up a substantial part of my portfolio.

Revenger is a very personal project too me, in that it combines a lot of different strands of my life. My time in the Parachute Regiment Reserves and my tour in Iraq in 2003 when I, and over a hundred other men from my unit, were mobilised and absorbed into the regular Paras (I went to 3 para), just in time to experience, first hand, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Although my tour was relatively peaceful, through luck more than anything, Revenger's won't be, as I aim to capture the essence of how wars can damage the men who serve in them, leaving them changed forever, even if they escape death or injury at the time.

The book will encapsulate my subsequent interest in politics following that time, and the growing disquiet and growing rage many felt following the banking collapse in 2008, which I view as a kind of reverse coup, in that trillions of pounds of taxpayers monies was spirited out of the governments hands and used to shore up a corrupt and fraudulent banking system that was collapsing under the weight of its own greed. On paper the government stepped in and took over the banks, in reality the bankers tied themselves to, and took over government. Everyone else was left to the wind.

Revenger is set in this post collapse world, our world, were there are no super heroes to save us from the greed and maleficence of the powerful, and evil does not come from another dimension or wear a hood and cape, it resides in the stock exchange and on trading floors, where speculation on oil futures in London sparks food riots and civil war on the other side of the globe.

Revenger will be a modern horror story.

I just need to come up with its new name.