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Baker Street, the center of
England's punk movement in a London few would ever know, a life even less would
ever see. Where being different is the rule, "ratting" the gambling vice of a
city's underground, and death is often around the next corner. Here is where
mystery, intrigue, and suspense are more than a game to the residents of post
Victorian London, it's a way of life.
Baker Street, the name conjures
up many images, mainly of Victorian London and the home of Sherlock Holmes. You
won't find Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuths here, just some similarities yet a
little bit more. A Sherlockian adventure set in an alternative but present day
London. An England where World War II never happened and the Victorian era is
resurrected into present day values. All of which only is the backdrop of the
mysteries and a setting to clash with London's punk subculture.
Baker Street, a violent
intrusion into a world that doesn't exist but possibly could have. It is a story
of rebellion yet also one of belonging. It dives deep into a world on the fringe
and exposes it's underbelly and treats the normal world as the outside . It is
Baker Street and no, you won't find Holmes or Watson here but you will find
Harlequin, Sam, Susan, Toby, Toller, the Ripper, and far too many other
fascinating characters to list.
Written by Gary Reed and Guy
Davis with art by Guy Davis.
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