Saturday, 23 May 2026
Wizards? Witches? Krampus?
Great news if uyou are a gamer -fantasy etc. Dark Alliance has brought us Vampires and Werewolves (along with Kate Beckinsale and Hugh Jackman) that review can be found here:
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2026/01/dark-alliance-vampires-and-werewolf-set.html
But now two -TWO- sets of Krampus, Witches and Wizards!! What next? (PLEASE say a Frankenstein and aliens sets!!) place my order as soon as they appeared on Hannants web site -in the UK unless you have a model shop nearby -and they are vanishing fast and some to Ebay- I would suggest Hannants as they are fast https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/ALL72068?result-token=NvD73
Plastic but these figures do paint up well -just finishing my large Amazon army, Vampires and Werewolves already done.
Two sets of Krampus... how out there is that?!
Taking some calming tablets now.
Kult Creations Shokwave Book 7
Addendum: THANKS to John Short for supplying images.
52pp
Colour
US size
£9.00 UK £12.00 Europe
Order link https://shokwavecomic.blogspot.com
This is going to be a tad boring. I currently am awaiting a scanner to be delivered and you might ask why I need to tell you this? Well, looking over Kult Creations Shokwave page as well as the site in general I can find a cover image for issue 7 and that is it. Art styles have not changed and as usual all scripts are by John A. Short.
Nosperatu which is drawn by David Hitchcock just gets better. "Insane", "gory", "sinister" -all cover this one and it is still, in my opinion, a strip that one day needs to be made into a graphic novel. Hitchcock is obviously enjoying what he is drawing and that shows. Old Nosferatu never expected there to be radio in his time? Sadly it all led to Heart FM which is a horror in itself but not as big a horror as Nosferatu! Worth the cover price for just this strip alone.
Richard Pester draws Resistors in his own inimitable style. "Synthigeddon" indeed but some may ask why Mr Wallace is not more concerned about his hair? Fella needs some good hair treatment. The title splash page is really eye-catching and Pester's art seems to have gone up a notch I need to buy a red kimono. "It's plastic. About as sharp as a banana" is not a sentence I was expecting., WHAT is as sharp as a banana? Buy a copy to find out.
The Clock Strikes was okay but Adam Jakes' art style of photo reference is still jarring and I am wondering whether that might be down to lack of real backgrounds, with the exception of the splash page -see below. It's acceptable art but I just cannot get into it and I am still not sure why but at least that means I am looking at it and thinking!
Chris Askham's Anna Key was very enjoyable and his art style is improving and I like the way the borders had colour rather than just a white background. A question: would the sheriff hire someone to work as a janitor without running a security check? Your choice is (A) No. Why bother? or (B) Sorry, a what? I mean the person might have convictions or links to organised crime and.... oops. On an inspection day, too. But armed with a mop things should turn out fine.
D-Gruppe-Germany's First Super Team
B&W
31pp
£6.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/d-gruppe-vol1/paperback/product-159nejq4.html
Germanys first super team created in the 1970s when there were no German created super heroes.
D-Gruppe first saw print in the 1980s in this story "The Revenge Of The Ice Queen" written and pencilled by Terry Hooper-Scharf and inked/lettered by Ben R. Dilworth. The back-up strip is Deutscher Michael in "Carnival of Death" by John Erasmus.
A4
B&W
22pp
Following the events of issue 1, Kopfmann has strengthened D-Gruppe but when confronted by a series of unusual events and equally unusual abductors, can the team face the threat of the world destroying Zeit Geist?
Part 1 of the Zeit Geist story arc.
note:events in D Gruppe 1-6 take place BEFORE the Return Of The Gods story in BT Adventure.
A4
B&W
24pp
£5.50
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/terry-hooper/d-gruppe-3/paperback/product-19q4q74d.html
Now gathered at The Place Of The Gods, D-Gruppe meet heroes from other worlds that have been attacked or face attack by the Zeit-Geist.
Sent to seek out the enigmatic being, the group realises that something is wrong -and Zeit-Geist strikes from within!
A4
B&W
34pp
£6.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/d-gruppe-4/paperback/product-15g4ye7v.html
This is it! The final showdown with Zeitgeist -but with heroes already dead can D-Gruppe and the other heroes stop the world destroyer??
Plus -Kopfmann's first appearance before D-Gruppe and the origin of The Mummy -and a new feature The D-Gruppe Fact File.
You want more????
You ain't getting it!
A4
56pp
B&W
£6.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/d-gruppe-annual-2012/paperback/product-1pey2pg5.html
For D-Gruppe, Germany's first and only super team, things seem to have gone quiet since the Cross-worlds Zeitgeist event.
However, Tarot, the mystic, detects a great evil below D-Gruppe's very own HQ.
The ultimate evil has returned and this time it isn't just a question of whether D-Gruppe can stop it but how many of them will die trying?
Part 2 of the Zeit Geist saga contained in that volume
A4
B&W
164pp
£12.00
Germanys first super heroes have fumbled along since the “Externsteine Event” One day something crashes into forestry followed by a “white out” event and the appearance of the Pied Piper of Hameln and then the appearance Frederick Barbarossa seemingly out of history at D-Gruppe headquarters and his calling them into action.
At the Place of the Gods, D-Gruppe meets heroes from other German parallels –all targeted and some destroyed by a seemingly all powerful being known as “Zeitgeist” and the race is on to find and stop “It” But there is a traitor amongst the heroes.
They were Germanys first. Germanys best heroes. But will they live long enough to succeed in their task?
This book collects together the first adventure of D-Gruppe –Revenge Of The Ice Queen– along with the three part Zeitgeist saga and the 2012 annual that concluded the German super hero epic— plus other features! Art by Ben R. Dilworth and Art/Stories by Terry Hooper-Scharf
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Friday, 22 May 2026
Black Tower Super Heroes The Ultimate Game
Story Terry Hooper-Scharf
Art Terry Hooper-Scharf, Thorroe Prey, P. Beard, Tomas Scharf
- Pages
- 188
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)
- £15.00 UK see online store for outside UK price
The mystical traveller of the realms, The Thinker, meets a stranger while travelling along the Path of Counter Actuality. But this stranger is a different type of traveller: he is Illuyanka and he has been charged with on sworn duty –to destroy specific Earths in the multiverse.
Finding that Illuyanka is partial to gambling the Thinker risks all by challenging him to a cosmic game pitting heroes against various challenges: they lose then their Earth dies. The Thinker has no doubt that with all of his knowledge he can win. But Illuyanka is not what he seems.A story that throws in as many super heroes and villains as you could ever want plus an Earths parallel crossing storyline that will have you wondering who the real bad guy is!
Black Tower Super Heroes: Werewolves
86pp
A4
Black and white
£10.00 UK
The Prof, investigator of the paranormal, encounters two werewolves in Castle Park...and Devilina who has a "sort of" message for him. Kotar, Sabuta, Lady Silana, Tarot and others deal with new werewolf activity and Dr Lycaon is granted access to the labs at the HQ of the explorer/adventurer group The Questors. Lycaon believes he is close to a serum that will cure the curse of lycanthropy but someone or something is trying to stop him. Meanwhile in space Freelancer delivers justice to the Central Galactic Council after its betrayal (see The Green Skies) and on Earth the equally treacherous Council of Light meets its fate. Will Lycaon succeed with his cure or does the increased werewolf activity even in the halls of one of the UKs most secret buildings indicate that the cure is too late?
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
The Cross Earths Caper
The Cross-Earths Caper: Part II of the Invasion Earth Trilogy
Paperback,
A4
Black & White
107 Pages
Price: £12.00 (excl. VAT)
Prints in 3-5 business days
Following the events on Neo Olympus and the Boarman invasion of Earth, many heroes and crime-fighters have withdrawn from activity. Some are trying to recover from injuries while others are fighting the mental scars left by the events.
But things have to go on. As heroes from other parallels who helped during the recent events return home, members of the Special Globe Guard are shocked at the sudden appearance of Zom of the Zodiac. Never a sign of good things a-coming!
Very soon, a group of heroes mount a rescue mission and find that a quick rescue mission can turn sour equally quickly. As they overcome one challenge the the heroes become lost between parallel Earths and face new threats.
Sometimes one Earth just is not enough. The complete story published in issues 7-10 of Black Tower Adventure now in...one handy dandy book!
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