comic bits online: Kult Creations: Shokwave #4

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Kult Creations: Shokwave #4

SHOKWAVE BOOK 4

48 pages

colour and black and white art!

UK £9.00

12 Euro

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jas1/shokwave-book-4

A anthology comic, featuring a quartet of ten page stories each issue written by British National Comic Awards' winning writer John A. Short, drawn by some of the most talented artists in British comics! All four feature new adventures!

NOSFERATU II continues our sequel to 1922's cult silent horror classic. Trapped on a ship crossing the Atlantic with the immortal remains of the dead vampire... The cult of Orlok works to resurrect the count. This time featuring a two hundred year old talking zombie rat and spontaneous human combustion! Art by Dark Horse artist David Hitchcock!

-Now this art style works well as I have noted before and the story begins to pick. Awww, poor zombie rat...but can we say "aww" when it comes to zombie rats? Well I just did. Of course the count is bound to make an appearance so will he in this part of the story. Buy the comic and find out! 😝

THE CLOCK STRIKES! Another adventure for the golden-age mystery man. A gun for hire aims to kill another assassin. A hit gone wrong in the ice and snow of a New York winter in 1937. Featuring the return of femme fatal assassin Scarlet Hunter! Art by Longpig artist Adam Jakes in cool black and white!

-I like the story and it's well paced and has a nice ending. I am still not too sure about the art style though. Not too sure why because it looks okay but something is not clicking with me. I do intend to read 1-4 again and see whether a re-read will change my mind. I would publish this style of art but I am getting old and it may be the fact that the characters look as though they are taken from photos of actors that is doing something to my moldy comic brain.

ANNA KEY back for more alien chaos! Sheriff Key has a new deputy to break in, but will there be time for proper training when there's a scheme of mass kidnapping unfolding in Rox City? Anna and Norm find themselves vacuum-packed in the latest self-contained adventure. Full colour art by Switchblade Stories artist Chris Askham!

-Now, this one is more like the old 2000 AD strips of old story-wise and initially I was not keen on the art style but in this part I was. Go figure. I'm a contradictory comic reviewer. Nice story and nice colourful art that was very enjoyable.

RESISTORS an everyday tale of sex robots fifty years in the future. We delve back into the pasts of human droid mechanic, Kew, and lead warrior for the rebellion, Jez. How did he get involved in the bots struggle? And what was her life like before she rebelled? Full color art by Fantagraphics artist Richard Pester

Here we almost have a Bladerunner scenario gone wrong. Hooker "artificials" or robots -looking the way they do (humanoid) we used to call androids. Everything in this world is bloody changing. The Church is being naughty but as the naughtiness is with robots it doesn't count ...this could have gone so wrong! The question is whether Kew can save the hooker robot that does not want to have sex (she obviously never met Captain Kirk). Are we seeing a Richard Anthony Pester resurgence?

All in all it is a good comic and if you check the Kult Creations site you can purchase all four issues and that way you can get in on the action. Reviews of previous issues are linked below and I recommend the title because comics should be fun and these are fun!

Shokwave #1