![]() Milligan’s capable, and culpable, after all. He’s seasoning it with maybe science fiction. Because writer Peter Milligan isn’t penning just a crime drama. ![]() Then again, some of the Dogs indeed end up with good-looking corpses. Corpses rife with the forensic evidence for detectives building homicide cases don’t end up pretty. But few left good-looking remains, owing to practical methods of quick body disposal. Coming of age during the cultural revolution saw the Dogs’ graduate into criminal enterprises with Nick Romano’s line coined for their mission statement. Their childhoods consisted of playing in the rubble of the Blitz and being on the lower class end of societal opportunity. ![]() Our protagonist, Frank ‘Pretty’ Babbs, was one of them, all young men from the Isle of Dogs peninsula of Greater London. Fitting because it follows the exploits of a gang of young criminals, the Dogs, who were an underworld force in 1966’s swinging London. The quote’s from an American noir courtroom drama dealing with youthful hoodlums from impoverished areas of a major city, and the reference is fitting when assessing AfterShock’s Dogs of London #1. ![]()
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