Dave Cook
Oct 28, 2021
4 minutes
The side-scrolling beat-’em-up has had something of a renaissance in recent years and it shows no signs of stopping. It’s become so popular that the comic-book author Dave Cook has decided to delve into the genre with his incoming book, Go Straight. Here he tells us how it has come about.
Why write Go Straight?
The side-scrolling beat-’em-up genre is by far my favourite, even today. My love of them started back in the early Nineties, when my dad would rent my sister and I a new Mega Drive game from the local Ritz Video every Friday after school. I had wanted that cemented the idea, as it almost felt like the genre had come full circle after taking a big dip in the Noughties.
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