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2026-05-14T12:00:08.360-07:00

Kult Creations: Shokwave 5

2026-05-14T07:22:19.809-07:00

52pp

Colour

US size

£9.00 UK £12.00 Europe

Order link https://shokwavecomic.blogspot.com/search?q=shokwave+5

Previous reviews can be found here and I actually thought I was seeing things as Book 4 was 2023. I was absolutely positive I had reviewed Book 5....Terry is getting very old.

Book 1 https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2023/01/kult-creations-shokwave-book-1.html

Book 2 https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2023/05/kult-creations-shokwave-book-2.html

Book 3 https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2023/10/kult-creations-shokwave-3.html

Book 4 https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2024/05/kult-creations-shokwave-4.html

Anyway, here is 2024s offering.

Firstly, as usual, John Short writes everything from the comedic to deadly serious. The issue leads off with Nosperatu which is drawn by David Hitchcock. The art style is still creepy and stylised so that it fits the story perfectly and is in greyscale which also adds a lot. With the gory scenes it works which is good because the amount of red ink needed would have been even scarier. That final page... 😱

Resistors – "Our rebel robots are on a mission in this episode... Get ready for heist-style hi-jinks with Jez and Daisy behind enemy lines! Sexbot versus war-droids!" Reading that for some reason gave me a flash back to 1980s sci fi horror films (probably starring Tim Thomerson, Tom Atkins or Treat Williams -it was a thing). the last two pages in a vibrant red really wakes your eyes up after grey scale!!

Now, The Clock Strikes was okay but Adam Jakes' use of movie photo references made this jar a bit for me. Brian Donlevy as Prof Bernard Quatermass in scenes from The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) - in the US renamed The Creeping Unknown was hard to take. Of course if you are not into sci fi horror or a huge fan of the Quatermass films none of this will mean a thing!

Anna Key goes on a fake date which isn't surprising since she tricked her was into becoming sheriff. What can go wrong? A restaurant, a little eaves-dropping. Oh, Zinks Karos - who is, apparently, a notorious "hits-being" so, yeah, should be memorable. Chris Askham's style is still growing on me so that's a plus.

Luckily each strip has a "Previously" to remind old folk like me what happened in the previous issue... probably be why it is called "Previously" -a service to the old croakies.

All fun and recommended!

I Apologise Again. I Was Young!

2026-05-14T04:50:05.311-07:00

Regarding the whole "I never had anything to do with the Green Skies in South Dakota" post. Mr Stransky responded:

" Green skies ? Yep. Your fault. You brought the story into being....you own it.... Terry Hooper....destroyer of worlds!"

I thought I would just ignore that but then someone tried outing my past with this photo:

Oh come on. I was young(ish) and angry and conquering the world and total subjugation of humanity was just a phase. It isn't what I am now It was in the past and who hasn't tried to usurp the throne or build a weapon of mass destruction to enslave the world?

Please believe me I am a mature and tolerant human being now and, Mr Stransky: I still own that mega accelleron destructo ray gun in the photo.

I Would Like To Officially DENY The Claims

2026-05-13T03:24:52.714-07:00

In 2022, the sky turned an incredible green in Sioux Falls, SD during a storm.

I did not have anything to do with this. I did not set this up to promote The Green Skies. I am good but this is a tad above what I can do.

No, this is not just an opportunity to push The Green Skies books.... but..

lùisa - Call Me The Witch (Official Music Video)

2026-05-13T03:09:55.854-07:00

I Swear A Couple of My Shelves Just Creaked Very Loudly

2026-05-11T05:50:39.927-07:00

Over the last 10 years (I have really narrowed the time period down) I have had a 100% success rate in having my application for a table at a UK comic/Small Press event turned down. Seriously.

Here is the funny part:the organisers would "appreciate" my publicising their event. Am I going to? No.

It's rather like the people who want me to push their publications but they "just don't have the time" to read or publicise my publications.

I will tell you who will get a table at each of the events; the same boring bunch of retired comic "personalities in their own lunchtime" and friends or friends of friends.

I really would like to get to a European (German?) event in 2027 because 2026 is going by too fast.

Silvio (Sal) Buscema January 26, 1936 -January 24, 2026

2026-05-10T16:19:53.478-07:00

Just found out that one of my all time favourite comic artists, Sal Buscema has died at the age of 89. Great memories of a man who filled my childhood and adult comic reading life into a real joy.

Tempus fugit

The Revenge (and Origin) of Dr Lefun

2026-05-10T06:17:58.535-07:00

Well I found an old CD with art and on it was this strip which features Black Tower's own Dr Lefun. The story is written and pencilled by Hooper and inked and lettered by Ben R. Dilworth.

Originally this was for Bastei Verlag and one of its horror comics and you can tell how old this is as Deutsch Marks are mentioned rather than Euro!

Anyway...enjoy.

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2026-05-09T15:12:42.728-07:00

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Batgirl Deserved Better Than This...

2026-05-08T10:46:11.048-07:00

Inart Action Arkham Origins Batman

2026-05-07T09:24:10.655-07:00

Frankenstein (Monster) versus The Prize Heroes

2026-05-07T08:27:50.175-07:00

Probably one of my favourite American Golden Age cross-overs involves Dick Briefer's Frankenstein from Prize Comics 24, October 1942 and the story "Utter Failure". Simplistic? Yep. Fun? Absolutely!!

Was The Charlton Comics Documentary Ever Made?

2026-05-07T06:51:31.322-07:00

I was asked whatever happened to the Charlton Comics movie? I posted the 2017 trailer here: https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2017/04/charlton-comics-movie-official-hd.html

Lots of comic pros were dragged out as evidenced from this video https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2017/04/history-of-charlton-comics-charlton.html

The last post on their web page was 2019 in which it was said they had completed the documentary and were in post production. That was it. Apparently a lot of financial contributions but no documentary only short clips of interviews. You can check these out here: https://www.charltonmovie.com/charlton-theatre

Fans were asking what happened and although I did try contacting them in 2020, 2021 and 2022 there were no responses and according to Charlton fans who spoke to some of the pros involved responses went from "I do not want to discuss that" to Neal Adams allegedly stating "it left a nasty taste in my mouth".

I ought to add that although the people responsible said everything was ready for post production and they needed more funds to do that they were looking for an intern to do the editing for free.

Some fan opinions on what went on are quite strong and as we have not heard from the documentary producers themselves we have no idea if a documentary was made. I did try their email as well as their FB messenger in the last couple days....nothing.

Buck Danny Classics 10 - The Hunt for Molotok-41

2026-05-06T08:30:16.804-07:00

Authors: Frédéric Zumbiehl and Frédéric Marniquet; illustrated by André Le Bras
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
ISBN: 9781800441804

£8.99 incl VAT

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/buck-danny-classics-hunt-molotok-p-4594.html

1958. Buck Danny continues the covert operation intended to rescue American nuclear scientists kidnapped by the USSR in 1951. Unfortunately, nothing goes as planned, and Buck and friends find themselves struggling to escape the clutches of deadly SMERSH operatives – the Red Army’s counter-intelligence arm … From Russia to Iran and Turkey, from desperate dogfights in the air to commando operations on the ground, courage and consummate skill will be the key words of this conclusion to a two-part story.

First thing: although Cinebook lists vol 9 on its site re Buck Danny Classics none of the other volumes showed up and 10 is nowhere to be found. I had to do an internet search to actually find the details... on the Cinebook site!!! No idea what is going on there but I';ve given the links to save you getting an headache.

Now, a spoiler but not a major one: in the last book Sonny was arrested for the murder of someone close to him. Away from Buck and his friends things look like they might get a little rough but one thing is certain: Sonny is toughing it out.

Meanwhile Buck and friends are knee deep in action and at one point things are looking a little bleak for them until "someone" rescues them!

Gun fights, shark attack and more than a few surprises are in store for any avid reader of this series and the rather sinister organisation that just lost its leader has a new one appointed: none other than Miss Lee -and she is one Sonny's revenge list!

And The Responses Were.....

2026-05-06T07:57:33.159-07:00

I was asked by someone how my last "Who would be in your UK created super team?" went. I had to check as I have posted the same thing....seven times over the last few years. Checking and doing a rough count of responses I came up with...

None. My mistake was not realising that most CBO views are from outside the UK. Mind you, twice I have posed the same question for Germany and France. Same lack of response. Hmm. Here is a new one:

Who would feature in your dream Belgian super team of heroes?

I'll leave it a week and then ask the same about the Netherlands. If I was a betting man I would bet on zero responses!

Black Tower Super Heroes: Werewolves

2026-05-05T17:08:27.205-07:00

86pp

Black and white

£10.00 UK

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/black-tower-super-heroes-werewolves/paperback/product-84wwge7.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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?

For those interested

2026-05-05T12:22:40.126-07:00

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Does It Come Before or After The Green Skies?

2026-05-05T09:11:57.213-07:00

Blogger Subzero from Tales From The Kryptonian just let me know that he received his copy of The Ultrimate Game. He asked if (in reading order) this came after Green Skies?

Well, you could but it is meant as a stand alone although there are references only someone who has read Green Skies will get -Streamline telling "Father Time" that he knows who he really is for instance.

But, like I wrote, it is meant to be a one off fun read covering multiple parallel Earths, heroes, villains and settings such as the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It's FUN!!

Buck Danny Classics 9 - Flight of the Rapier

2026-05-05T07:38:32.000-07:00

Authors: Frédéric Zumbiehl and Frédéric Marniquet; illustrated by André Le Bras
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages

ISBN: 9781800441798
£8.99 incl VAT

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/buck-danny-classics-flight-rapier-p-4593.html

1951. A plane carrying an American general and 40 nuclear technicians makes an emergency landing off the coast of Ireland. When rescuers reach the spot, though, they find nothing – no life rafts, no bodies … The West cannot afford to leave anyone with knowledge of atomic weapons in enemy hands, so it will be up to Buck and his friends to find the missing men, thanks to an experimental, high-altitude, Mach 3-capable aircraft: the Rapier …

That's the aircraft called Rapier NOT the Rapier Anti-Aircraft missile system. Mentioning that before anyone else does 😋

I think there are enough Buck Danny fans out there who know what to expect -action, well drawn aircraft and a few plot twists. Espionage can get dirty as Sonny finds out. The series is not just about nice looking military jets flying around, which some people imagine it to be. I mean, enemy spies killing MI5 agents and scarpering before "the SAS get here" is far removed from flying. Before anyone says anything; this series is set in 1951 and from the end of WW2 into the 1950s the SAS were involved in going after Nazi war criminals as well as other "enemy threats".

I know there are a few Buck Danny fan sites out there and I know they like hearing when the next English language edition appears (some collect in as many languages as they can). Well -here you go lads and another is on its way!

Remember ordering from Cinebook direct helps them keep the cash flow going because most publishers lose out on services like Amazon. Show Cinebook some love!

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2026-05-03T10:14:57.381-07:00

You Tube Demonetisation

2026-05-03T06:28:12.581-07:00

Yes, YT is demonetising MANY channels and there is no appealing., The excuse is use of AI slop -YT channels seem to be bursting with this but the ones viewed most are NOT being demonetised.

Guess what? My channel is demonetised even though it is not monetised and contains no AI and in point of fact I have not uploaded in a year (but I was working on something)_

It's pure YT greed. They want every penny.-Daily Motion has gone the same way.

Sad considering how YT started. We need someone with money to start a new YT

the BIGGEST DRAGON BALL COLLECTION... in the world.

2026-05-02T11:55:17.537-07:00

AURORA - The Blade (Live from Mexico City)

2026-04-30T12:58:25.917-07:00

Gin Wigmore - Country Diamond (Official Music Video)

2026-04-30T08:02:15.823-07:00

Comics and discussion of comics should be fun.

2026-04-30T04:57:54.549-07:00

It was in the early 2000s when everyone was getting online and mentally deficient people started the Internet Troll/Spam War. Quite literally, if you had a blog on Freeservers or any other platform and whether it covered hobbies, art or anything else you suddenly found yourself at the end of abusive comments, rumour mongering and much more.

Comics was the worst genre affected. I had emails from comic figures/personalities that they never sent. Female creators or fans got a lot of abuse but in what existed as a You Tube comic community back then vloggers worked together in identifying the trolls and they were given an ultimatum to stop or have what they were doing online forwarded to their families. One troll was so disgusting toward a female blogger and her children and it was found he was married and had kids; "Does your wife know you call women this online?" It all stopped.

Myself, well it is well documented that trolls -cowardly little fungii- from the dying British comics industry began a campaign against me in the late1990s. Eventually it led to these people being reported to their ISPs and even legal threats. I ought to point out that I did not know, never met or worked with any of these people. It was just a case of nasty little people wanting to be nasty on the internet -two I approached at a comic event literally ran off in the other direction! Another, along with two pals, threatened to "get physical" if they saw me at an event. I saw them. They saw me. They didn't hang around.

Twenty six years on (yes, 26 years) these same people still tell their lies, try to spread false rumours and at one point bullied spineless event organisers to stop me going to their events. I am living rent free in the minds of people I have never met and only one I would recognise!

It looked at one point that groups and blogs would just collapse and disappear under all of this. No. Some grew (my Google Plus account hit 2 million views in a couple months) but what killed them were Freeservers, Yahoo and Google once they decided money was more important.

Oh, of course, starting a "Flame War" (argument online) and name calling was a trick to increase views -people really thought they would be the "shock jocks" of the internet. One insisted on being insulting and sending me links to his wannabe comic blog and took every opportunity to attack me personally -in fact his comment section and posts were just...me (I can understand that!). And he was really very too excited over his main post: "No name comic blog DEMANDS free comics". PDF comics were sent for review but then never appeared in print and people who paid in advance complained -to the platform CBO was on at the time- and although the platform showed that I had no involvement I made a declaration that I could only review printed comics in future because that was solid proof that they did exist. So my line "Sorry but due to all the problems with PDF comics sent in for review never being published and people losing money I can only review printed books in future" became "I DEMAND YOU SEND ME COMICS!!!"

Rather than concentrate on what his blog was about -supposedly comics- his whole blog seemed to be there to attack me personally and criticise CBO. I corrected him once in his comments section about why I could only review printed comics which he declared was me attacking him personally and that was it. He tried stoking things up but, do you know what? His blog vanished within a couple months.

I explain this as someone was saying that people might not comment on CBO out of fear of being the subject on online abuse. No. All comments are moderated and since this version of CBO was set up in 2011 no abusive comments.

Comics and discussion of comics should be fun.