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Scally, Smoke, Shrink

£1.49

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One giant scally, one unhurried collector's night out and one very dangerous vape: a self-contained interactive comic of 21 panels and roughly 5,000 words of noir-edged narration.

The story

He's leaning on a lamppost behind the pub in a North Face jacket, trackies tucked into his socks, a cigarette riding easy between two fingers. The cigarette is the alley disguise: just a normal lad on a normal Saturday, nothing to see here. The vape in his other pocket is something else entirely. Anyone who gets close enough to ask for a lighter, a light chat or a light flirt is about to find out what.

Across 21 panels, Scally, Smoke, Shrink follows him down the alley behind a pub, back to the gaff, and on a flight to Spain. The lads he picks up never see it coming. One lungful of that vape and the world stretches up and away. By the time they understand what's happened, they're the size of a keyring and he's sliding them into his jacket pocket with Connor, Danny and whoever else he fancied earlier in the evening.

What's inside

  • 21-panel comic mixing stylised illustration and photoreal portraits
  • Roughly 5,000-word short story woven through the captions, in six acts from the alley to the Costa
  • Full-screen click-to-enlarge on every panel
  • Ambient smoke background effect
  • Format: a single interactive HTML comic that works offline in any modern browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) on desktop, laptop, tablet and phone; read it in your library or download to keep
  • DRM-free, no account or app required, so you can re-read it as many times as you want
  • A self-contained story, not part of a series

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