London Falling


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. It explores bogeymen from English folklore and mythology 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 mythology, especially the folklore 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 is the leader of the gang and his name comes from the East Anglian version of the black dogHedley Kow, a form of Elf or Hobgoblin, shown in the story as a shapeshifting monsterJenny GreenteethPeter Struwwel, a character from a 19th-century German children's picture book authored by Heinrich HoffmanThe Tailor, a bogeyman from The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb from the same bookTommy Rawhead is an Irish hobgoblin with a taste for childrenBlack AnnisCailleach BheurDando the Huntsman, a Cornish priest connected with ideas of the Wild Hunt Bucco-Boo, a kind of Bogeyman Mujina is a Japanese bogeyman, that can take on the form seen in the series, a faceless ghostHorndon Worm was a dragon from East Horndon who was killed by James Tyrrell using mirror polished armour

Appearances

Each episode of London Falling is given an individual title: