comic bits online

Coming soon: We Are All....

2026-06-04T10:51:08.432-07:00

Upcoming Comics

2026-06-04T08:45:39.263-07:00

What I Plan...in Brief

2026-06-02T07:08:03.066-07:00

If -IF- I survive long enough I have the Special Globe Guard book to finish off then I have the next Black Tower Super Heroes that I will start incorporating a few more D-Gruppe pages into before the book length D-Gruppe book.

Kopfmann and the members who vanished while chasing a UFO (Return of the Gods) need to return and then things can kick off properly.

It's one old bloke doing all the story/ artwork so don't hold your breath!

Bristol Through Time | The Harbour City That Changed Britain

2026-06-01T14:42:57.340-07:00

Cinebook Newsletter 221 - May 2026

2026-06-01T13:42:02.650-07:00

To display this email in a browser, please click here

Dear Reader,

Boy, do we have an eclectic selection of titles for you this month!

Let’s start with the return of 1930s sleuth Harry Dickson and his investigations always on the razor’s edge between devilishly devious … and altogether supernatural. The wonderful atmosphere of old pulp mysteries, Sherlock Holmes with a touch of The X-Files … Let’s see how he and his assistant fare against a vampire!

Things are much more down to earth with Lucky Luke, of course, although … the sort of luck that gets you a universally-known moniker could almost be considered unnatural! Here, authors Appollo and Brüno offer us a glimpse of Luke’s life before he became the legend – in part before he even got the nickname – in a superb homage to the Lonesome Cowboy. Seven connected short stories that will leave you wishing for more from this creative team!

Finally, Yoko Tsuno is back with a fabulous tale full of dragons, fairies, an emperor’s wife … and time travel, because there isn’t a mystery our friend could ignore once uncovered. Jump back to 11th century China to find out what’s hidden inside The Celestial Boat!

May with Cinebook – something for everyone!

Harry Dickson 3
Onofrio Catacchio, Luana Vergari, Doug Headline, & Jean Ray
The Red-Eyed Vampire

Harry Dickson’s skills were instrumental in getting blood-thirsty killer ‘the Red-Eyed Vampire’ arrested. The detective is invited to the small German town where the murderer was from to witness his execution … Read more

Lucky Luke by … Appollo & Brüno
Appollo & Brüno
Dakota 1880

In this homage to the legendary Lonesome Cowboy, Appollo and Brüno, through seven short stories linked together in a single narrative, give us a glimpse of Lucky Luke’s life before he became the righter of wrongs we all know … Read more

Yoko Tsuno 21
Roger Leloup
The Celestial Boat

Yoko and her adopted daughter Morning Dew are on their way to China when the man sitting next to them on the plane collapses. Right before, he tells them that ‘the Seventh Tooth of the Dragon hides a treasure’ … Read more

Back in print by popular demand! Perfect opportunity to complete your collection – and if you've never tried the series, now's the time!
Lucky Luke 16 The Black Hills	Lucky Luke 36 The Daltons Redeem Themselves

Lucky Luke by … Appollo and Brüno
Dakota 1880

Scotland 1
Episode 1

2 Walmart Toy Hunts! AMAZING New Toy Finds!! 🔥

2026-06-01T12:30:16.063-07:00

Mr Dilworth

2026-06-01T06:20:11.058-07:00

Package received. It may shake me out of my funk later when I read it all! THANKS

So it is written, so it shall be.

2026-05-31T11:01:17.264-07:00

I am not getting any younger and there are far more years behind me than ahead. This made me think that I REALLY wanted to do D-Gruppe some justice since neither of its planned major stories ever saw print.

So with the next Black Tower Super Heroes there will be some D-Gruppe content (as there was in previous volumes) and that will lead into the long long long delayed Days of Terror story.

So it is written, so it shall be.

Flipping through some AMAZING Art Books in Japan!

2026-05-31T10:48:06.314-07:00

Marvel's Lost Generation - The Origin and History of the First Line

2026-05-30T08:12:41.636-07:00

Weekly Rewind! Ep125: Star Wars Marvel Legends TMNT DC Retro Madman Youngblood Conan More News!

2026-05-30T08:07:01.198-07:00

Kult Creations Shokwave Book 8

2026-05-27T09:49:18.508-07:00

52pp

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.

Tales of Terror 1

2026-05-26T05:49:42.312-07:00

72pp

B&W

Price: £6.15 (excl. VAT)

Prints in 3-5 business days

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/tower-tales-of-terror/paperback/product-11921861.html

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.

The classic Torch Of Vengeance (W THS and art Terry Ford) is a tale of a wife’s rather Gothic vengeance......

..... 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.

Live on Fip: Jeanne Added "Goodbye"

2026-05-25T11:17:02.222-07:00

Texas or Wessex??

2026-05-25T11:11:39.329-07:00

The Return of the Gods and Green Skies Invasion Earth Series

2026-05-24T09:21:54.106-07:00

Paperback

Black & White

331 Pages

Price: Reduced to £21.89

Prints in 3-5 business days

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-return-of-the-godstwilight-of-the-super-heroes/paperback/product-22076337.html

It begins slowly. It always does. It's a deception that everything in the world is as it should be and that never changes.

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,

Black & White

107 Pages

Price: £12.00

Prints in 3-5 business days

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-cross-earths-caper/paperback/product-22076318.html

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!

B&W

124pp

£15.00

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/the-green-skies-vol-3-part-1/paperback/product-5j4y7e.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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

B&W

126pp

£15.00

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/the-green-skies-vol-3-part-ii/paperback/product-nj7wqr.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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

B&W

208pp

£16.00

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/the-green-skies-vol-3-part-iii/paperback/product-kj6r7r.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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.

D-Gruppe Annual

2026-05-23T14:01:27.827-07:00

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

Weekly Rewind! Ep124: Marvel Legends DC Helldivers Street Fighter Mega Man Toys R Us More News!

2026-05-23T10:57:39.355-07:00

Wizards? Witches? Krampus?

2026-05-23T08:40:23.657-07:00

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

2026-05-23T07:57:59.107-07:00

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

2026-05-23T06:18:31.432-07:00

A4
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.

B&W

22pp

£5.50
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/d-gruppe-2/paperback/product-1j98pnmm.html

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
http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/d-gruppe-the-zeit-geist-saga/paperback/product-21156613.html

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

Black Tower Super Heroes The Ultimate Game

2026-05-22T06:30:10.150-07:00

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

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/black-tower-super-heroes-the-ultimate-game/paperback/product-95d9z68.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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

2026-05-22T06:05:16.722-07:00

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?

The World’s Greatest Video About Comics’ Greatest World

2026-05-21T11:19:40.449-07:00

The Cross Earths Caper

2026-05-20T09:56:50.248-07:00

The Cross-Earths Caper: Part II of the Invasion Earth Trilogy

Preview

Paperback,

Black & White

107 Pages

Price: £12.00 (excl. VAT)

Prints in 3-5 business days

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-cross-earths-caper/paperback/product-22076318.html

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!