One of the best new strips in 2000AD in recent years is Gordon Rennie and Tiernen Trevallion's "Absalom," and now they've reteamed, alongside co-writer Emma Beeby, to produce the original graphic novel Robbie Burns — Witch Hunter for Renegade Arts, coming in 2013.  Tiernen has sent along an exclusive glimpse at the project, including a first look at a completed page, as well as some typically amazing developmental character sketches from the book.

Trevallion is in possession of a great style that should make him a comic book superstar — a little bit Mike Mignola, a little bit Kev Walker, with a pinch of Simon Bisley. And of course Rennie, the comics industry's equivalent of Private Frazer, is the perfect man to document with a straight face this little-known period in the life of Scotland's national poet. *Cough*. Excuse me.