Almost everyone I’ve spoken to who watched Banshee absolutely loved it, some devouring the whole run in one weekend. It was a show which took hold of the viewer and didn’t let go for a second. Its depth of character, combined with the excitement of its action scenes has made it in my mind the best new US show in a long while.

Banshee is one of those shows that once you’ve seen the finale, you’re already looking for more. Season two (which we’ll come to in a little while) is currently filming with an air date of January 2014 in the states, but to satisfy the hunger of Fanshees (the official term for Banshee fans) there is a mixture of online material to be considered under the banner of Banshee Origins, here, some of which casts a new light on the programme.

First up is the Banshee Origins tie-in comic book. Throughout Banshee there were many times when the influence of comics could be felt, particularly when Lucas Hood got a bit handy with his fists. His battle with biker gang The Kindred in episode five saw Hood coming off like Wolverine. Banshee’s fights were often gloriously OTT, with characters slugging back and forth like those drawn in boxes. It’s fitting then that Banshee Origins begins in this medium.

The book’s story goes back over fifteen years, to a time when Hood worked for Mr. Rabbit, along with Ana and fellow hardman henchmen, Olek. The tale introduces the ruthlessness of Rabbit and showed Hood and Ana pulling a heist on an armoured car. It then recounts the scheming relationship between Hood and Ana and their desire to escape from Rabbit with the help of “dude looks like a lady” computer hacker, Job.

Some of the book has been created from flashbacks of Lucas and Ana that was shown in the series – the locket that contains the picture of the house is given here to Ana by Hood. The book contains a few other interesting parts. The armoured car hijack is an intriguing inclusion as we’ve seen Hood, Job and fellow conspirator, Sugar Bates planning an as-yet-uncarried-out raid on the Banshee casino armoured van. In the book, the robbery is carried out by having Hood infiltrate the van team and make a daring leap with the pay-load into the back of an Ana-driven truck. Might we see this tactic employed on the Banshee casino van? The way in which Hood launches himself with precision into the back of his escape truck is also like the way in which he jumped aboard Ana’s car when she saved him in episode four – Half Deaf is Better Than All Dead, so it was a move they’d previously rehearsed.