Baker Street

Honour Among Punks: A Mystery in Five Acts (1-5).

Children of the Night: A Mystery in Five Acts (6-10).

Honour Among Punks: The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel (iBooks; 1-10, + 2 short stories). [From iBooks: Baker Street: The center of England's punk movement in a London few would ever know, a life even less would see. Where being different is the rule, "ratting" is the gambling vice of a city's underground, and death is often just around the next corner. Here is where mystery, intrigue and suspense are more than a game to the residents of post-Victorian London - it's a way of life. Now the cobblestones run red as a series of murders terrorize the night. But as Sharon Ford may soon find out, sometimes the solution is more costly than any crime.] The hardcover edition has a different front cover illustration; the front cover of the trade is the back cover of the hardcover; the back cover copy from the trade is on the endflaps of the hardcover; and there are four additional pages of illustrations at the beginning of the hardcover, one of which is hand-signed by Davis and Reed. Old Book of the Week 6/21/06: An even better expression of the punk ethos is this punk sci-fi mystery series, set in an alternate-reality present-day London, by creator-artist Guy Davis and writer Kit Reed. It involves an innocent American girl adventuring in London, where she meets Sharon Ford, who is no doubt what Sherlock Holmes would have been had he been a late-20th century female punker. The two stories collected here are both fun otherworldly mysteries, more accomplished in story and art than Continuity. What is especially interesting is watching Davis become, well, Davis. The first chapter is in a smooth, cartoony style that looks nothing like his later work; each chapter grows more Davis-y until, by the end of the first story-line, his style is in full bloom. The second story is fully the Guy Davis who is so terribly under-appreciated today. This omnibus collection is wonderful; it is published by the now-defunct iBooks, but should be relatively easy to hunt down, especially used.