Saturday, 30 May 2026
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Kult Creations Shokwave Book 8
Colour
US size
£9.00 UK £12.00 Europe
Order link https://shokwavecomic.blogspot.com
All stories by John A. Short so, if you have ever read any of his books or previous issues of Shokwave you know what to expect!
Nosferatu II art by David Hitchcock and I would love to see the original art pages of this -knowing my luck it's all drawn on computer! But each page is just totally insane and busy and that "Final Day" splash page...ooh, the chills! I really am hoping this is going to appear one day as a complete trade but I keep writing that so if it never happens blame me. And that last splash page...uh-oh. Someone is in deep doo-doo! Seriously this is fab!
The Clock Strikes! With art by Adam Jakes is still one I just cannot get into. I write that a day or so after someone told me to "get yer bloody eyes sorted!" which I assume means that person likes this. Fair do's I doubt Jakes would be fond of my artwork😄
Resistors art by Richard Pester actually kicks off this issue but at my age ... hmm. Bit of bondage, a shoot it up (with gunfire nothing drug orientated...you'd think I could write a decent review!). Poor Daisy. No repair job will fix her although having written that I realise I could be made to look stupid in Book 9 (no. John wouldn't do that...would he?!). Lovely colour work.
Anna Key with art by Chris Askham. It's odd that this was the one I was originally not keen on. Age, kids: it's full of rage against anything, more frequent bathroom trips and .... Lost track there. It's delineated nicely and full of colour and humour and guest stars Barry Gibb with his lion's mane of hair....it isn't Barry??? But he has the 1970s Disco white suit!! Whatever, a fun romp and warning about the dangers of universal translation devices.
All-in-all, a good fun read in 48C (I am sat in the greenhouse to prove a point...I can't remember what the point was but that's what happens when you get old kids -you even forget to order Shokwave9 so fight age and prove your youthfulness by ordering a copy today!
I have to get out of this greenhouse.
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Tales of Terror 1
72pp
B&W
A4
Price: £6.15 (excl. VAT)
Prints in 3-5 business days
The main feature,"The Curse Of The McQuilligans" by Terry Hooper-Scharf (W) and artist Geoff Harrold starring Xendragon, leads off this collection of horror,ghostly and twist-in-the-tail stories.
..... while Graveyard is a cautionary tale for those curious to look into graves!
The Grave by THS (W/penciller) and Ben R. Dilworth ...never visit THAT grave!
Demons, time travel and much more.
Monday, 25 May 2026
Sunday, 24 May 2026
The Return of the Gods and Green Skies Invasion Earth Series
Paperback
A4
Black & White
331 Pages
Price: Reduced to £21.89
Prints in 3-5 business days
Earth’s heroes and crime-fighters are going about their daily tasks –fighting a giant robot controlled by a mad scientist’s brain, attackers both human and mystical -even alien high priests of some mysterious cult and their zombie followers and, of course, a ghost and a young genius lost in time.
Pretty mundane.
But psychics around the world have been sensing something. A "something" that sends feelings of sheer terror through their psyches.
There is a huge alien Mother-ship near the Moon. Undetected by deep-space radar and other instruments, only a few on Earth have sensed it and they cannot penetrate the hull but only feel psychic screams and....worse.
And then it begins: strange orange spheres isolate and chase some of Earth’s heroes who then vanish into thin air –are they dead? An attack by an old foe or foes -?
Black, impenetrable domes cover cities world-wide.
Then it becomes clear to those within the domes what is going on: Alien invasion of Earth!
A war between the Dark Old Gods and the pantheons that followed!
Warriors from Earth’s past having to battle each day and whether they die or not they are back the next day!
No one suspects the driving force behind the events. One single evil guiding events. Events that could cause destruction and chaos throughout the multiverse.
Assaulted on all fronts can Earth’s defenders succeed or will they fail...is this truly the end?
The Cross-Earths Caper: Part II of the Invasion Earth Trilogy
Paperback,
A4
Black & White
107 Pages
Price: £12.00
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!
A4
B&W
124pp
£15.00
It all began in 1987 and the Black Tower Universe has seen alien attacks, heroes kidnapped to be put into the middle of a war of the gods.
Despite the deaths and losses the heroes -crime fighters, super powered and members of the magical union have come back but now unaware that alien races are escaping through the Sol system and that a mysterious space fleet is heading towards the inner planets, they find themselves trapped or distracted.
The Many Eyed One is finally coming.
The Multiversal Council has quarantined Earth and forbidden any to help.
The evil has spread and there is treachery striking at the very core of Earth's defenders
A4
B&W
126pp
£15.00
Following on from events in Green Skies V. 3 Part I the Clone Zone Boyz are increasing in number while those who created them, the Vampirons, continue to plot and await the arrival of their 'God' -The Many Eyed One.
The Druid finds that his physical and mental state are deteriorating and even the Rev. Merriwether cannot help him.
Shockingly, the Clone Zone Boyz claims someone close to Merriwether and this leads him to team up with two 'unsavoury' characters.
In space Krii and Tyn hrrn face a seemingly unstoppable enemy.
On The Moon the Selenites and representatives of other worlds meet and decide that Johnny Apollo, the Z-Man, is the only one who can lead the counter invasion fleet.
With the enemy striking Mars and then the Moon things look grim
A4
B&W
208pp
£16.00
The gathered Sol Defence fleet is prepared to make its final stand led by Johnny Apollo the Z Man. If it fails to halt the invaders then the doomsday weapon will be detonated and destroy the entire Sol System.
Meanwhile, unaware of the threat in space, Jack Flash, the Avenger and others prepare for a final show down with the Many Eyed One; a final confrontation they know they do not have the power to win.
Is this Humanity...the Earths...final day?
woven into The Green Skies is the story of the harbinger of destruction: the story of Varik Dann -The Man Who Walked Through a Door and Into Another World
Varik Dann is but one character as we follow the attempts of heroes and adventurers as well as the military as they try to confront the Clone Zone Boys with no idea of who or what is behind them. And in space the very existence of not just the Earth but the solar system rests on efforts to stop an alien invasion fleet and if it cannot be stopped them there will be no conquest: the entire solar system will be destroyed by a doomsday device.
Saturday, 23 May 2026
D-Gruppe Annual
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
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.
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