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Warhammer Crime Week 2022
Once a Killer Part 2
A Warhammer Crime Short Story
The truth behind a killer – and the one chasing them – comes to light.
READ IT BECAUSE
...always a killer. The finale of this two-part story unearths the past of Sanctioner Malenko and the murderer he's chasing through the shadows of Varangantua
THE STORY
In the final chapter of Once a Killer; Sanctioner Malenko continues his hunt for the spree killer Orvo 'The Ripper' Revnik, and must confront his and Revnik's dark, shared past.
The truth behind a killer – and the one chasing them – comes to light.
READ IT BECAUSE
...always a killer. The finale of this two-part story unearths the past of Sanctioner Malenko and the murderer he's chasing through the shadows of Varangantua
THE STORY
In the final chapter of Once a Killer; Sanctioner Malenko continues his hunt for the spree killer Orvo 'The Ripper' Revnik, and must confront his and Revnik's dark, shared past.
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50 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 30, 2022
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About the author
Mitchel Scanlon
39 books44 followersMitchel Scanlon is a British writer of science fiction novels and comics. He wrote novels for the Warhammer 40,000 franchise, and novels featuring 2000 AD character Judge Anderson. He also writes a comic series called Tales of Hellbrandt Grimm.
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October 10, 2022
I’m reviewing parts 1&2 as a single entity; part one is going to make you want to read part two, and part two wouldn’t make any sense without the preceding story.
Once a Killer is a good short, perhaps not quite as good as others in the Warhammer Crime range, but still worth a read.
The Crime Week stories have looked at recruitment and pit fighting as general trends, and this directly ties those two trends together. It’s a really compelling narrative with several great characters and a satisfying arc, but while it kind of feels 40k, reading it I was super aware of Scanlon’s history as a writer for 2000ad; in places this felt like it could be in Mega City One of any number of dystopian settlements rather than Varangantua; while other stories have added rich detail to the city, this adds little of note and diminishes it somewhat.
I’m still really glad I read it, and really enjoyed it but I was just a tad disappointed by the lack of detail it had.
Once a Killer is a good short, perhaps not quite as good as others in the Warhammer Crime range, but still worth a read.
The Crime Week stories have looked at recruitment and pit fighting as general trends, and this directly ties those two trends together. It’s a really compelling narrative with several great characters and a satisfying arc, but while it kind of feels 40k, reading it I was super aware of Scanlon’s history as a writer for 2000ad; in places this felt like it could be in Mega City One of any number of dystopian settlements rather than Varangantua; while other stories have added rich detail to the city, this adds little of note and diminishes it somewhat.
I’m still really glad I read it, and really enjoyed it but I was just a tad disappointed by the lack of detail it had.
December 17, 2023
Didn't end as well as it started. The second half was too straightforward for the atmosphere of the first. Although I suppose the title did kind of warn us.
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