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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!
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