Preview: ‘Shakara The Complete Collection’ — Welcome To The (Brilliant) Carnage

by Richard Bruton

An unstoppable killing machine looking for vengeance, Shakara is Robbie Morrison and Henry Flint dialling up the outrageous and the epic to 12. Shakara! Shakara! SHAKARA!

Another 2000 AD series that was rather lost in the mists of time, Shakara’s so deserving of this complete collection treatment.

It’s just a rampant steamroller of alienness, never stopping for a moment, taking place in a galaxy without order, where war rages all around – and then a lone figure of vengeance appears, devastation and death left in its wake – this is SHAKARA!

Here’s the 2000 AD PR that tells you all you really need to know…

‘One of 2000 AD’s most unpredictable, visceral and impressive stories, the complete tale of Shakara is now coming to collection into a single incredible volume!

The galaxy is in turmoil. Once a place of peace and order, now a time of terror has descended upon it, with races waging war upon one another unchecked by any authority. Planets, civilizations, even entire star systems face total annihilation or enslavement. But a vengeful figure has emerged from the chaos, striking at targets with a ruthless determination. This alien being calls itself Shakara and it is seemingly bent on wreaking revenge on those responsible for the destruction of its people.

Shakara is the most feared entity in the universe, the living embodiment of a murdered species and an unstoppable killing machine determined to bring vengeance upon those responsible for annihilating a whole species – and not a single entity in the whole of known universe will be able to stop it! The Shakara were thought to be long dead – but retribution is coming from beyond the grave!

‘A visually outrageous and impossibly epic tale of shocking violence and destruction!’

Oh yes, it’s all that and a lot more. 322 pages of rampaging revenge that starts with the inconsequential death of the last human and then careers around multiple worlds, never letting the breakneck pace let up.

It’s Morrison dialing things way up past 10 andFlint really coming into his own and establishing the style that would see him become a great 2000 AD artist.