Gina Meyer, the hero of my new supernatural spy comic,
Shadow Service, is the culmination of my lifelong obsession with occult detectives and magical investigators. Co-created with incredible artist Corin Howell, Gina is a young witch who uses her powers (and her relationship with a sarcastic talking rat) to find missing people on the streets of London, a precarious business that brings her onto the radar of Britain’s very own occult security service, known in the trade as MI666.
To celebrate the release of volume one of the series, which collects issues one to five in one handy package, SciFiNow+ asked me to list my five favourite supernatural detectives, each of which have influenced the creation of Gina and the shadowy organisation that has her in its sights. As you might expect from a Brit, my choices are maybe a little anglo-centric, but hey, this sceptred isle of ours is steeped in magic and ghosts. It’s in our bones…