Actually finished reading the collection now and wanted to bump this thread to remind people that it's really, REALLY good stuff. I guess some are holding out for the Hachette collection?
I'm not that widely read in Science Fiction / demon horror outside of 2000AD so I've no idea if this story is one that's been tackled elsewhere, but it struck me yet again as just a perfect 2000AD thing.
'What if England were literally brimming witrh satanists, and what if their rituals to summon demons actually did work? What if there was a gianr robot monster that could burst onto the Earthly plane to recaptures those demons? What if a mildly psychic ex-combat photographer got caught up in the middle?' It's just so weird, with a great mix of uncanny ideas and smart jokes. And yes, above all that, there's ample scope for Simon Jacob to design one (two?) of the best robots ever, and just pages and pages full of crazy demons.
More please Tharg!
(The Armoured Gideon in the Order is, to my mind, what happened when one of the mystics from that story managed to possess/hijack it after stumbling across it when tackling some wurms. So it's the same outer shell (if less well drawn), but a completely different character on the inside. I do kind of want Kek-W to let the real Gideon emerge at some point, and I wouldn't object to poor old Franquites turning up as a 20th century agent of The Order...)