GROWING OUT OF some artwork of robots and futuristic cars Pye Parr had put online, the post-apocalyptic automobile races of his and Rob Williams’s Petrol Head bring to mind films such as Death Race 2000 and Mad Max.
There’s an environmental theme to the creator-owned five-parter. “In the book’s world, the environment has becomeshut down. Can the environment outside the city be saved? That’s our key MacGuffin, as Petrol Head meets a young girl called Lupa, who might just have the key to the future of the human race in her backpack.”
