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Sunday, 21 May 2023

Black Tower Adventure 4

 



A4
B&W
Pages 56
Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)
Prints in 3-5 business days


Krakos takes care of some burglars who have to “take the heat” in a very literal sense!  

The Purple Hood deals with a suicide banker so you have to ask how that will turn out?   

Kotar & Sabuta rescue a young woman in Antarctica, but what mysterious force took here there and how is it connected to Kotar? 

The action gathers pace in Return Of The GodsTwilight of the Super Heroes as more mystery enfolds those taken from Earth…and those on Earth.

Thaddeus Twatt and nephew Tomas land on The Jungle Planet -and it looks as though this could be their deaths as Thaddeus realises too late what has colonised the planet!

The Thinker decides that thinking alone can get a little boring while one of China's Phoenix Team has to deal with..well, you'll see and it’s probably not what you expected!

What more could you ask for? More? You got it!


Black Tower Adventure 3

 


A4
B&W
Pages 72
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Things get grim as heroes begin to fall and the truth is realised in Return Of The Gods:Twilight Of The Super Heroes part 3. 

Lady Sivana and Tarot help Kotar & Sabuta tackle a nasty lycanthrope problem. 

With things looking VERY grim will Thaddeus Twatt and Tomas escape The Fearful Fate Of Friggia

Ben Dilworth provides not one -not two -THREE Purple Hood strips.

Is there more? Can there possibly be more?  Don’t be silly -YES!!!!!

Black Tower Adventure 2

 


A4
B&W
Pages 69
Price: £7.00 (excl. VAT)
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Things begin to pick up apace as Thaddeus Twatt and Tomas go on foot to explore The Fearful Fate Of Friggia. Both, naturally,

oblivious to the mystery and action that continues in Return Of The Gods:Twilight Of The Super Heroes. In a more, uh, “fun” vein, we learn why using reptilean DNA to replace human limbs might not be a good idea in Out On A Limb!  Of course, when dealing with criminal gangs the Crimson Cowl packs a punchline.

And how could we forget Kotar & Sabuta as they confront...The Ghost! So, you may ask, if you are old enough, “Whatever happened to the 1980s craze for Yucca plants?” Well, we learn the deadly secret in The Day Of The Yucca!

There is also the obligatory “much, much more”!

Black Tower Adventure 1

 



A4
Pages 67
Paperback
Interior Ink Black & white
Price: £7.00 (excl. VAT)
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In 1984 the A5 (digest sized) Black Tower Adventure first appeared featuring some later-to-be top UK
comic book and was a must-read in Small Press circles and sold so well that even the publisher does not
have a full run!

The title was put on hiatus in 2007 but in 2010 was relaunched, bigger and better than ever!

This first issue of volume 2 contains: Part 1 of the mega series Return Of The Gods:Twilight Of The Super Heroes
which comes in at 43 pages!Thaddeus Twatt In The Twatt-Verse -first part of a truly microscopic titanic tales (which
makes sense if you read it!). And those Third Level sorcerers Kotar & Sabuta race to face The Deadly Dilemma Of 
Sigismund Benfriggisund! The cold war between China and Russia couldn’t get any hotter in the 1980s but one strip
that appeared in the new talent comic Preview was The Phoenix Team and that story has been much requested over
the years as the team, and the Soviet Red Star Squadron, stumble into The Evil of the Salamander and his master plan.


And more?  Well, of course there is!

Kult Creations SHOKWAVE BOOK 2

 


Kult Creations

https://shokwavecomic.blogspot.com/

44pp 

£9.00 UK

 Featuring four ten-pagers written by John A. Short. NOSFERATU II (the sequel to the 1922 silent horror classic) illustrated by David Hitchcock... 


THE CLOCK STRIKES! (the return of comic book's original masked man) now illustrated by Adam Jakes...

 RESISTORS (near future robot rebellion) illustrated by Richard Pester... 

And ANNA KEY (alien craziness) illustrated by Chris Askham! 



Also available in a three-pack with SHOKWAVE BOOK 1 and THE CLOCK STRIKES! 1 for those of you who want to get caught up! 

For me I have to say that The Clock strip I found a little off-putting. Its the whole use of photos that can work in certain cases but I just found myself wondering where I had seen the photo this was taken from. In a way it detracted and I really could not get into this story (which was written well enough).

Nosferatu II had a style which works and was enjoyable to read while Anna Key has a style which is the artist's own and though not what I would say "Wow!" to it works and is fun and very colourful and this i9s entertainment so that's a win!

Resistors may seem a little text "light" but that is because this is a pre-lettered page from the Kult blog. Pester is also very adept at black and white work and is still, in my opinion, one of the most under rated comic artists in the UK.

IU am guessing at 4pp as the pages are not numbered and I can find nothing on the blog and to be honest long covid fatigue makes me less than interested in hand counting every page. Go to the Kult blog to order where you will find how much etc for Europe and the US. £9.00 is all I can find for the UK so have no idea whether that includes p&p or not.

PLEASE; give page count and cost +p&p if you submit books as itr makes it so much easier.