ALEC WORLEY / FANTASY, HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION
  • HOME
  • ABOUT ME / FAQs / CONTACT
  • COMICS (YOUNGER)
    • Black Beth
    • Star Wars
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    • Treasury of British Comics
    • Trollhunters
  • COMICS (MATURE)
    • Age of the Wolf
    • Anderson
    • Dandridge
    • Durham Red
    • John Carpenter's Night Terrors: The Coffin Road
    • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night
    • Judge Dredd
    • Robo-Hunter
    • Tales From The Black Museum
    • Tharg's Future Shocks
    • Custom comics
  • FICTION
    • Warhammer
    • Judge Anderson
    • Judge Dredd
    • Sharkpunk
    • Empires Of The Imagination
  • AUDIO
  • OTHER WRITING
  • BLOG
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

DANDRIDGE

"Never fear. I have matters perfectly in hand..."

THE SERIES

Dandridge is a supernatural adventure series created by me and artist Warren Pleece for 2000 AD. The series stars the dandy, bon vivant, man of affairs and sometime ghosthunter Doctor Spartacus Dandridge, who first appeared – and died – in our single-episode Past Imperfect story Antiquus Phantasma in 2000 AD #1631 (April 2009).

The series takes place in an alternate Britain in the early 1980s. A century before, the Victorian Spiritualists developed a method of turning ghosts into a viable fuel alternative. Bolstered by advances in ‘ecto-technology’, the British Empire has endured to the present day, although it has become a ghost of its former glories. Killed in 1905, the spirit of Doctor Dandridge has recently assumed material form, having acquired a magical jacket. Reunited with his mute manservant Shelley, Dandridge has pledged his services to his mysterious tailor Angela Blake, a fallen angel with motives of her own...

THE CHARACTERS

Doctor Spartacus Dandridge: the hero

Picture
An Edwardian dandy, dilettante and sometime ghosthunter shot dead in 1905 (allegedly over an unpaid tailoring bill). Having gone missing for decades, his ghost finally escaped a private collection in 1981. It was then that he came into possession of a magical white jacket, which not only gives him material form but also allows him to change his outfit’s appearance at will. A celebrated scientist, author, and adventurer, Dandridge is also a premier exponent of the mesmeric art of ‘savoir fu’. Having found himself in a Britain threatened by both otherworldly forces and its own corrupt empire, Dandridge strives to safeguard the British people, the living, the dead and otherwise.
Enjoys: Scandal; intrigue; world-class tailoring; oak-matured scotch; breaking in a new pipe
Dislikes: Rudery; brutishness; raised voices; rushing about
Quote: “Did I mind being shot dead? On the contrary, I’m
grateful to have been murdered before I lost my figure.”

Shelley: the manservant

Picture
Constructed under mysterious circumstances in a villa on the storm-wracked shores of Lake Geneva, Shelley is Dandridge’s bodyguard, manservant and hangover therapist. Loyal to his short-tempered master for reasons known only to himself, he is an 8ft tall mute with the soul of a pre-Raphaelite and the sword arm of Conan the Barbarian. In 1903, Dandridge abandoned Shelley on an Arctic ice floe, leaving him to make his own way home when his master needed to make room on the ship for a new set of yeti-fur outfits. Upon hearing of his distant master’s death, Shelley wandered the otherworlds, during which time he became a reaver, a slayer and a watercolourist before finally hearing of his master’s return and rescuing him from a private collection in 1981. Shelley would follow his master into the bowels of hell and back, and will always ensure he has a packed lunch.
Likes: Clouds; kittens; pressed wildflowers; comely milkmaids
Dislikes: Modernist architecture; loose stitching; big fluttery moths
Quote: “…”

Angela: the tailor

Picture
Creator of the metamorphic jacket that gives the Doctor’s ghost material form. An ex-angel who chose to ‘fall’ and live a mortal life among humanity, Angela wants to help those either oppressed by the Empire or threatened by other
empires beyond the veil. To this end, she has bound Dandridge to her service, but still has trouble getting him to behave.

Enjoys: Keeping an eye on things
Dislikes: Excuses
Quote: “I’m afraid mortality’s given me a taste for catastrophe.”

Picture
Art by Jon Davis-Hunt
Picture
Digital collection of the paranormal comedy first published in 2000 AD. Available from the 2000 AD WEBSTORE.

"If there’s any fault to be found with this book it's that there’s too much imagination in too few pages! "
Mass Movement

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Past Imperfect: Antiquus Phantasma

One-shot, with art by Warren Pleece and letters by Simon Bowland, in 2000 AD #1631, April 2009.
Dandridge hunts the spirit of a deadly highwayman who has escaped from the British Ghost Museum.
Picture
Click to enlarge

Return Of The Chap

Five episodes, with art by Warren Pleece and letters by Simon Bowland and Ellie De Ville, in 2000 AD #1710-14, Nov-Dec 2010.
Having been murdered by his creditors over seventy years ago, Dandridge's ghost is unearthed in 1981, where he finds himself not only stalked by a mysterious stranger and but also menaced by a possessed ghost-collector.
Picture

The House That Dripped Devilry!

Five episodes, with art by Jon Davis-Hunt and letters by Simon Bowland, in 2000 AD #1726-30, March-April 2011.
Having retreated to his gothic mansion, Dandridge and his mute manservant Shelley face an unwelcome guest.
​

A Christmas Ghost Story

One-shot, with art by Jon Davis-Hunt and letters by Ellie De Ville, in 2000 AD #2012, December 2011.
Dandridge recalls a chilling Edwardian tale about a little boy
who receives a deadly Christmas present.
Picture

The Copper Conspiracy

Eight episodes, with art by Warren Pleece and letters by Ellie De Ville, in 2000 AD #1824-1831, March-May 2013.
Dandridge and Shelley must retrieve a sinister artefact from
a mysterious mechanical foe.
Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • HOME
  • ABOUT ME / FAQs / CONTACT
  • COMICS (YOUNGER)
    • Black Beth
    • Star Wars
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    • Treasury of British Comics
    • Trollhunters
  • COMICS (MATURE)
    • Age of the Wolf
    • Anderson
    • Dandridge
    • Durham Red
    • John Carpenter's Night Terrors: The Coffin Road
    • John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night
    • Judge Dredd
    • Robo-Hunter
    • Tales From The Black Museum
    • Tharg's Future Shocks
    • Custom comics
  • FICTION
    • Warhammer
    • Judge Anderson
    • Judge Dredd
    • Sharkpunk
    • Empires Of The Imagination
  • AUDIO
  • OTHER WRITING
  • BLOG
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY