Black Shuck unplugged – see Steve Yeowell’s monsterous inks!
2nd June 2016
Black Shuck returns to 2000 AD this week in Prog 1983 with a new series, Sins Of The Father, penned by Leah Moore and John Reppion, with art by the legendary Steve Yeowell.
This series is being coloured by Chris Blythe, but Steve has kindly provided the 2000 AD blog with the uncoloured pages of the first episode so that you can see them in all their monochromatic glory!
Leah and John have detailed the process behind the first episode on their blog, and you can catch up with their thoughts behind the birth of the series in an interview from 2014.
Born in Dunwich on the English coast, Black Shuck was kidnapped by Vikings but on the journey to Scandinavia he fought a hideous shape-changing monster which killed his captors. During the course of the battle, Shuck bit the monster and since then whenever he feels fear, pain or rage he transforms into a huge, black, hairy beast.
When he washed up at the court of King Ivar, it was discovered he was the monarch’s bastard son, sired during a Viking raid on Dunwich. Shuck successfully aided Ivar in his fight against the monstrous Jötunn, and became king himself. But his bestial curse has been passed on to his unborn sons, and his family will perish unless he seeks help…
