{{For, the 2012 Urban Fantasy novel, Paul Cornell ''London Falling'' is a strip published in June-July 2006 in the British comics magazine '' 2000 AD'', created by writer Simon Spurrier and artist

Lee Garbett Lee Garbett is a British comic book artist born in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands. He has worked on History of the British comic, British comics. As of February 2011, he is working freelance after a period of exclusivity with DC Comic ...

. It explores bogeymen from

English folklore English folklore consists of the myths and legends of England, including the region's Legendary creature, mythical creatures, traditional recipes, urban legends, proverbs, superstitions, Folk dance, dance, balladry, and Folklore, folktales tha ...

and

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wreaking havoc in a modern-day setting. The title is a play on The Clash's 1979 album '' London Calling''.

Characters

The characters all draw heavily on

, especially the

folklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also ...

from north west Europe. They include: * Jack Capelthwaite is a family man just getting on with his life but his old life is going to catch up with him as Capelthwaite is a shapeshifting monster, a bogeyman. *

Black Shuck In English folklore, Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly Black dog (ghost), black dog which is said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia, one of many such black dogs recorded in folklore ...

is the leader of the gang and his name comes from the East Anglian version of the black dog * Hedley Kow, a form of

Elf An elf (: elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic peoples, Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in Norse mythology, North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic ''Poetic Edda'' and the ''Prose Edda'' ...

or Hobgoblinbr>
shown in the story as a shapeshifting monster * Jenny Greenteeth * Peter Struwwel, a character from a 19th-century German children's picture book authored by Heinrich Hoffman * The Tailor, a bogeyman from ''The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb'' from the same book * Tommy Rawhead is an Irish hobgoblin with a taste for children * Black Annis * Cailleach Bheur * Dando the Huntsman, a Cornish priest connected with ideas of the Wild Huntbr>
* Bucco-Boo, a kind of Bogeyman (presumably the name coming via bugaboo) * Mujina is a Japanese bogeyman, that can take on the form seen in the series, a faceless ghost * Horndon Worm was a

dragon A dragon is a Magic (supernatural), magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but European dragon, dragons in Western cultures since the Hi ...

from East Horndon who was killed by James Tyrrell (who also appears in the series) using mirror polished armour

Appearances

Each episode of London Falling is given an individual title: *''Part 1: City Folk'' (in ''2000AD'' #1491) *''Part 2: Loredogs'' (in ''2000AD'' #1492) *''Part 3: Let Me Take You By The Hand'' (in ''2000AD'' #1493) *''Part 4: That Go Bump'' (in ''2000AD'' #1494) *''Part 5: Smoke and Mirrors'' (in ''2000AD'' #1495)

External links

2000 AD profileDiscussion on the mythology in the series
British comics English folklore European folklore 2000 AD comic strips

Characters

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See also

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