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Sleeper Hit

JED MERCURIO’S latest police procedural is set in space. But it’s not for TV, at least not yet – the acclaimed screenwriter behind Line Of Duty and Bodyguard has switched to the medium of comics to bring us Sleeper, co-written with Prasanna Puwanarajah and drawn by Coke Navarro.

“I’d wanted to develop something in this kind of subject area,” Mercurio tells Red Alert in a four-way Zoom chat with his collaborators. “I knew that Prasanna was a fan of the sci-fi genre

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