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In the closing moments of the show, Shahara was chatting to her cab driver about the future of London and saying that she felt the city was on the precipice of change. It was then revealed that Iris Maplewood, the detective from 2053, was her driver and knew her by name! If you started watching Netflix’s thrilling new British series Bodies you might have noticed a placard dedicated to Si Spencer at the end of the first episode. Spencer is also mentioned in the opening credits of the show, and it makes sense given he wrote the comics that the series is based on. There's no sense trying to do a proper review as thorough and insightful as Sam Quixote's, so read that, I'd say. I learned a lot, as usual, from him. MORE : You’ll never try office team building after watching Netflix’s ‘brutal’ Swedish slasher horror Speaking to Cosmopolitan, series creator Paul Tomalin explained the curveball at the end of the show."The characters were brought to an end," said Paul. "But that being said, if it's a ridiculous hit and people are storming Netflix [for more], we left that ellipsis just in case, with a very exciting idea that does justice to the set-up and develops it further."

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Sebestyen, Roland (24 February 2021). "Tributes as 'big-hearted' Sheffield comic book and Eastenders script writer Si Spencer dies". Yorkshire Live . Retrieved 14 October 2023.urn:lcp:bodies0000spen:epub:6c3e4fcb-c913-442d-acb7-3915cbafe4f2 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bodies0000spen Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2d09q8gdg6 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781401252755 Lccn 2015006320 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Japanese Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.3257 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200365 Openlibrary_edition So: Bodies is a great read - maybe a bit too long at 8 issues; it might’ve been more effective at 6 - but it’s an enjoyable journey that’s worth taking. There’s a lot to like here and Spencer’s created a rich, ambitious and unique story with some excellent characters and a fine mystery at its core.

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On television, Spencer wrote for series such as the long-running soap opera EastEnders and the ITV series The Bill. He also worked as a script editor and reader for the BBC. I actually thought I had something good in my hands....not a bad start and could`ve been good to the end but....it was not long until I hated it :( LONDON, 2014. As racist rioters wreak havoc in the name of their prejudiced patriotism, Detective Sergeant Shahara Hasan leads the fight against them. As a Muslim cop, she’s English to the core. But the corpse she’s uncovered may reveal something rotten deep below the surface… Some of his other graphic novels include The Vinyl Underground with Simon Gane and Hellblazer: City of Demons with Sean Murphy. Bodies': What to Know About the Genre-Defying Crime Series". Netflix Tudum . Retrieved 11 October 2023.Spencer has also written for television. After winning a 'New Voices' competition with the play Tracey and Lewis, he secured a position at the BBC as script editor on prime-time cop show City Central. He later worked as a staff writer for the BBC's EastEnders and ITV's The Bill in addition to being storyliner and series editor and contributing scripts to Grange Hill. He was credited as script editor on the 2009 Aardman pilot for CBBC show Men in Coats. The story is quite convoluted, but there is a clear maturity to it. It jumps between points in time that have no real connection, so you are effectively reading four wildly different stories featuring original characters in believable settings, each drawn in its own style. Bottom line is that the story is good, but you have to be a fan of this particular niche of supernatural. I'm sure it can be argued that the flow of the story could have been handled differently to make it more accessible for the ordinary reader. I say give it a try, you never know if it's going to be your cup of tea. Sadly, Si, who was from Sheffield, died in February 2021, just months before his 60th birthday. As well as working as an author, Si also worked as a scriptwriter, working on Grange Hill, EastEnders and The Bill.

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And yet, as is clearly evident by the diversity of the characters and their circumstances, English identity can mean a million and one things to any and all of us, and is inextricably entangled in our endlessly complicated history and melting pot of cultures and influences, in our finest moments and our most shameful. This is reflected in Bodies not just in character but also in language and setting. Bodies ending explained: Why did Iris Maplewood show up in the taxi in the final moments of the show? The premise is phenomenal. The 4 time periods, brilliantly depicted by 4 different artists, giving each period its own distinct look and feel. Each artist does a tremendous job of bringing their time period to life. I was initially attracted to this book because of my interest in Tula Lotay's art, and was happy to see the contrasts and strengths of the other artists as well. Shahara was able to play this record to young Elias just in time to stop him from detonating the bomb as he realised that he would only be killing hundreds of thousands of people for nothing. This effectively closed the time loop as Elias never killed all those people and, therefore never returned to the past to become his own great-great-grandfather, so therefore he never existed. It has a great and intriguing concept, solid writing, beautiful artist collaboration (four different artists drawing each their separate story from different time periods in London: 1890, 1940, 2014-15 and some weird future), each artist doing great job. But most of all this story has heart.Basically the collection (8 series joined together in one edition) jumps frequently between four different detectives in London over four time periods. Edmond Hillinghead in the 1890s, Karl Whiteman in the 1940s, Shahara Hasan in 2014, and Maplewood in 2050. Each detective finds a dead body, a weird symbol, and frequent lines said to them, "You are loved." Bodies is a police procedural with a twist. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. I admit to not knowing the first thing about this book before I requested it from Netgalley. But I was intrigued by the cover, with its blood-spattered pinup, and the idea of a murder mystery spanning over a century was right up my alley. And it all starts very strongly. The individual detectives are all quite distinctive from each other. And though I didn't particularly like two of the four (the 40s detective on the make and the futuristic amnesiac) I quite liked reading the other two's stories. The repressed Victorian detective was a decent piece of period work, and the present day Muslim detective was by far my favorite character. Based on the mind-bending graphic novel by Si Spencer, Bodies is a police procedural with a twist. When a body – the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End in 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053, one detective from each period must investigate. As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked, and an enigmatic political leader – Elias Mannix ( Stephen Graham) – becomes increasingly central. Did he have a part to play in the murder? Or is something far more sinister at play? To solve the mystery, our four detectives must somehow collaborate and uncover a conspiracy spanning over 150 years. Four detectives, four different eras, one murder victim, same MO, same location - appearing to each detective. Who killed John Bull?

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I really think the trouble here is expectations. The cover art is not indicative of any of the internal art, though I think that is a cop-out because that is the case for almost all comics. There is a heavy dose of scifi/fantasy/something that comes on unexpectedly and plays a central role in the whole thing. If one was expecting murder investigations covering 200 years to follow our reality, one may find things off-putting. And, of course, it is fairly complex compared to your average comic. Si Spencer was a British TV dramatist and graphic novelist. His TV credits include Eastenders, The Bill and Grange Hill. Bodies': Netflix Greenlights Adaptation of Si Spencer's Mind-Bending Graphic Novel from 'Pursuit of Love' Producer Moonage Pictures". Deadline Hollywood. 28 February 2022. Spencer died just months before his 60th birthday in August, and just before the script was green-lit, with writer Paul Tomalin revealing how he wanted to stay true to Spencer’s story. In 2022, Netflix announced that a series based on Spencer's Vertigo series Bodies had been greenlit, with Moonage Pictures producing. [5] The series Bodies consisted of eight episodes and premiered on Netflix on 19 October 2023. [6] Bibliography [ edit ]the ambition itself. Spencer gets a point for that from me, if not from all of the Goodreads readers who absolutely HATED this comic as merely confusing and incoherent. It IS confusing, and it MAY be incoherent, I'm not yet sure. The eight episode series stars Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller and Stephen Graham. In October 2010, Vertigo published the first issue of a Hellblazer mini series, Hellblazer: City of Demons.