London Falling

London Falling

[
Lee Garbett. It shows the main characters in the story: Black Shuck (inset) as well as Hedley Kow, Jack Capelthwaite, Jenny Greenteeth, The Tailor and Peter Struwwel (left to right)]

"London Falling" is a strip in " 2000 AD", created by comic book writer Simon Spurrier and Lee Garbett the artist. It is based on bogeymen from English folklore and mythology wreaking havoc in a modern day setting.

Plot

London, 2006. Jack Capelthwaite seems to be an ordinary man with a boring office job and married with a wife and two kids. It appears that he is no different from any of the other hundreds of city-dwellers. But Jack is a very, very different man with a terrifying secret past. And with the release of his friend and leader Shuck, Jack and his friends' secret past is quickly re-emerging...

Characters

The characters all draw heavily on mythology, especially the folklore from north west Europe. They include:

* Jack Capelthwaite is a family man just getting on with his life but his old life is going to catch up with him as Capelthwaite is a shapeshifting monster, a bogeyman.
* Black Shuck is the leader of the gang and his name comes from the East Anglian version of the black dog
* Hedley Kow, a form of Elf or Hobgoblin [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/efft/efft48.htm] , shown in the story as a shapeshifting monster
* Jenny Greenteeth
* Peter Struwwel, a character from a 19th Century German children's picture book authored by Heinrich Hoffman
* The Tailor, a bogeyman from "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb" from the same book
* Tommy Rawhead is an Irish hobgoblin with a taste for children
* Black Annis
* Cailleach Bheur
* Dando the Huntsman, a Cornish priest connected with ideas of the Wild Hunt [http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/dando.html]
* Bucco-Boo, a kind of Bogeyman (presumably the name coming via bugaboo)
* Mujina is a form of tanuki, a Japanese bogeyman, that can take on the form seen in the series, a faceless ghost
* Horndon Worm was a dragon from East Horndon who was killed by James Tyrrell (who also appears in the series) using mirror polished armour [http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/dragons.php] [http://www.foolishpeople.com/foolishpeople/2005/11/british_dragon_.html]

Appearances

Each episode of London Falling is given an individual title:
*"Part 1: City Folk" (in "2000AD" #1491)
*"Part 2: Loredogs" (in "2000AD" #1492)
*"Part 3: Let Me Take You By The Hand" (in "2000AD" #1493)
*"Part 4: That Go Bump" (in "2000AD" #1494)
*"Part 5: Smoke and Mirrors" (in "2000AD" #1495)

ee also

*English folklore

Trivia

*The title "London Falling" is a play on The Clash's classic, 1979 album "London Calling".

*The published panels, as they appeared in "2000 AD". are darker than the original art. This can be seen in the illustration given here which, when compared with the original, shows the published image had a blue/grey tint which has added a slight murkiness to the image, in particular it has made Jenny Greenteeth less green.

External links

* [http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=london 2000 AD profile]
* [http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=messagethread&choice=17454 Discussion on the mythology in the series]


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