Vault Comics Announces “Shadow Service”

Via CBR, Vault Comics have announced “Shadow Service,” a supernatural new series from writer Cavan Scott (“Doctor Who”) and artist Corin Howell (“The Girl in the Bay”) tentatively set for release from July. The comic follows Gina Meyers, a witch and private investigator recruited by London’s MI666. “Sure, she’s a witch who worries that her powers make her more of a monster than the crooks she’s trying to catch,” states the official synopsis, “but it’s not like London’s criminal underworld is literally going to hell… is it?”

Scott told CBR the inspiration for the comic lay in watching Roger Moore’s James Bond battle the undead Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die as a child. “The more I watched Bond, the more I became obsessed with the idea of spies fighting supernatural threats,” he said. The name MI666 was similarly a joke he conceived “after watching The Omen one dark and stormy night.” Years later, he “realized I didn’t want a Bond at all. I didn’t want a blunt instrument, jaded after years in the field. I needed a new recruit, drafted into the service, someone who definitely wasn’t a team player, someone who didn’t know spycraft but… witchcraft. Gina Meyer was born.”

The book will also feature the work of colorist Tríona Farrell, lettering by Andworld Design, and designs by Vault VP/Branding & Design Tim Daniel. Head on over to CBR to check out three unlettered pages of artwork, as well as the cover art by Howell, Nathan Gooden and Tim Daniel.