Imagine that the future England of Frank Hampson's 1950s science fiction hero Dan Dare has become a little truer. Aging Colonel Daniel MacGregor Dare has retired from his career in Space Fleet to live in rural retreat with his housekeeper, his memoirs & his painkillers.His splendid isolation is uninterrupted until he attends the funeral of a friend & former Space Fleet nutritional scientist., Jocelyn Peabody, & encounters estranged colleague Albert Digby. Then a summons to meet Prime Minister & Unity Party leader, Gloria Monday draws Dare into a web of power & corruption that has enveloped the beloved England for which he always fought.... Morrison & Hughes rework the fabric of real & fictional past into a disturbingly familiar future which chillingly parallels life in present day Britain.
Authors
Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
