Plot

The story is set thirty-eight years after the fall. The central character is Veto Skreemer, an imposing giant in an age when giants are near obsolete. His story is narrated by Peter Finnegan as he looks back on both Veto’s life and how it intersects with the lives of the Finnegan family, contrasting the formers’ rise to power with the latter’s struggle to survive.

Inspiration

Peter Milligan, in the foreword to the book, explains that Skreemer has two distinct inspirations—gangster films, specifically Once Upon a Time in America and The Long Good Friday, and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Collected edition

• Skreemer (by Peter Milligan. with art by Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon, 6-issue mini-series, 1989, trade paperback, 169 pages, 2002, ISBN 1563899256)

Awards

• 1989: Won "Favourite Single or Continued Story US" Eagle Award

Notes

References

• Skreemer at the Big Comic Book DataBase