I’m correcting a terrible oversight by finally linking to Freakangels, Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield’s new free weekly webcomic. Jump to the beginning with the prelude.

Freakangels is a grittier update of the cozy catastrophe genre of science fiction beloved of English writers such as John Wyndham. In fact, it’s basically a punk revision of The Midwich Cuckoos, exploring what happens after the creepy kids grow up and have destroyed the world. In this scenario, they’re not quite as bad as you’d think. But they have purple eyes instead of bright blue.

Ellis’s script has his usual quota of sex, violence, and swearing, but it’s Duffield’s art that is truly extraordinary in its depiction of a partially drowned future London.