Luckily The Traveller is well armed, possessing a weapon for every occasion: a spear, a machine gun, a flame thrower and plenty of grenades. In this horrific environ, where skulls hang from trees and madmen hover around seemingly every corner, The Traveller explores creature-packed subway tunnels, meets his old sweetheart (and her half-rat baby!) and faces down the hideous “Mother Rat” who lords over the city. The narrative is achingly simple, with an armor-plated individual known only as The Traveller entering a post-apocalyptic London overrun by mutant rats. Why? Because the illustrator is the immensely talented Ian Miller, who was quite inspired. In truth this book is pretty slight, coming off as a so-so short story presented as a 64-page comic. By JAMES HERBERT, IAN MILLER (Pan Books 1994)Ī rare foray into graphic novel scripting by novelist James Herbert, and the fourth part of Herbert’s Rats saga (which commenced with the novels THE RATS, LAIR and DOMAIN).
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