Skreemer

Author: Peter Milligan

Peter Miligan is a writer who hasn't gotten the credit he deserves as one of the finest writers of comics over the last 30 years. Skreemer is the kind of story you can read again and again and find new concepts to latch onto, while riding a story that is intense and intelligent. This is a classic kind of story – rich man, poor man, but more than that, it's the story of how the rise of the glorious and struggle of the inglorious are equal, and often terrifying. It is an epic, Godfather-like gangster epic in the form of a science fictional graphic novel. It pulls all these elements together, and reinvents the ideas within them. What sets this apart is the style of the art. The covers, some of the finest and most instantly recogniseable of the 1980s, The covers show influences ranging from Jack Kirby to Patrick Nagel; and the art team of penciler Brett Ewins and inker Steve Dillon, later responsible for the art in Hellblazer and Preacher respectively, have to be considered one of the greatest pairings in the history of comics. Why it's on the list: A powerful and influential miniseries collected into an incredibly readable graphic novel.