ComicScene Review: Petrol Head

This week I took the day off work and arranged to meet John McShane at Forbidden Planet.

It’s not often I am in a comic shop these days and there was a few morsels I fancied in there – November half price, Gone, Monica – but in the end sanity won out and I bought an easy to carry around with me copy of ‘Petrol Head’ by Rob Williams and Pye Parr.

It peaked my interest because of the quality of Robs writing on Dredd and some of the preview art I’d seen from Pye Parr. I don’t know why. It has all the elements of things I am not that interested in – robots, racing cars, Sci Fi – but I thought I’d give it a punt.

I’m glad I did – and not only because it has occupied my long wait for an aeroplane arrival in a airport hotel. There’s a nifty anti establishment storyline – the scientist v the state – and a developing relationship story between said scientist, his daughter and a has-been ex car racer with a not so subtle devil may care attitude to protecting runaway humans. Initially choosing what looks like the wrong side of that particular altercation leads to a whole heap of trouble which neatly sets up the next issue.

The race is on! Out now from Image.