Atomic Kommie Comics: 2020-04-05

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Here Come CORONAVIRUS COMICS to Take Your Mind Off the Real World...

...by presenting tales of fictional epidemics/pandemics daily on this blog...

...and our other RetroBlogs, including our newest one...

...Medical Comics...
...plus...

...Heroines...

...Secret Sanctum of Captain Video...

...Crime & Punishment...

...True Love Comics Tales

(you'd be amazed at how many romance comics stories involve disease)...

...Western Comics Adventures...

...Seduction of the Innocent...

...War: Past Present & Future...

...Hero Histories...

...Horror Comics of the 1950s...

Besides the daily posts here at Atomic Kommie Comics, there'll be at several new ones spread out among the various RetroBlogs each week!
Don't Miss Them!

Friday, April 10, 2020

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics CEREBUS IN HELL "Super-Cerebus Vs. Covid-19"

Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark has been a comics standout since the late 1970s, running more than 300 issues...

Originally a parody of Roy Thomas & Barry Smith's Conan the Barbarian, the Cerebus comics stand out for their experimentation in both storytelling format and editorial content, often mirroring the creator's sometimes controversial beliefs.

The current on-line series Cerebus in Hell, is no different, mirroring the CoronaVirus pandemic and the US government response!

You can download the current chapter in PDF form (including this double-page spread), for free, HERE!

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Cerebus the Aardvark

Volume 1

The storyline that started it all!

Thursday, April 9, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics AMAZING ADULT FANTASY "Plague"

As Don da Con's paranoiac nationalism grows...

...lets consider a lesson in what such obsessions can lead to, courtesy of a Cold War parable...

I doubt Spider-Man and Dr Strange co-creators, writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, ever thought that someone with similar tendencies to the star of this tale from Atlas' Amazing Adult Fantasy #12 (1962) would ever sit in the Oval Office...

(Come to think of it, it's doubtful the Cheeto Benito would ever send any country anything simply as a "gesture of good will"!)

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Amazing (Adult) Fantasy Omnibus
...a 2007 book which features the story above in the only reprint of it ever published!

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder / CoronaVirus Comics PLANET OF VAMPIRES "Blood Plague" Part 1

When Last We Left Our Heroes...

...keep reading and the characters will explain what's going on right after the big explosion.
"What big explosion?" you may ask...

The battle concludes...Next Wednesday!

(and when we say "concludes", we mean concludes!)

Written by John Albano and illustrated by Russ Heath, Atlas' Planet of Vampires #3 winds up some plotlines and, unfortunately, kills off several major characters in the process.

Be here next week, when we'll show how far afield the book was about to go as it suffered the "Third Issue Curse" that befell most of the Atlas Comics books.

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I Am Legend

the Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Original Book Which Inspired Generations of Creatives, including the Creators of Planet of Vampires!

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics STRANGE TALES "I Saved Mankind!"

I love stories with ironic "switch" endings...

...even if the switch produces a tragic result, like this one!

Illustrator John Forte's aliens in this tale from Atlas's Strange Tales #43 (1956) just aren't very...well...alien!
Other than that, it's a clever story (with slightly-stilted dialogue) by a scripter whose identity has been lost to the mists of time!
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Marvel Masterworks
Atlas-Era Strange Tales #5
(which is the only time this story has been reprinted)

Monday, April 6, 2020

Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics RESISTANCE

A global pandemic leaves hundreds of millions dead in its wake...

It starts present-day/day after tomorrow...then goes off in an unexpected direction!

That's the unexpectedly-timely premise of a new comic series from AWA Studios by J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and writer of acclaimed runs on Amazing Spider-Man, Mighty Thor, and Superman: Earth One, and Mike Deodato Jr., blockbuster artist of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Infinity Wars.

You can see the first issue (for free) in three parts, formatted as a webcomic...

HERE

Dare you not read it?
More importantly...Dare You Not Order It?
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Resistance #1
J Michael Stracznski & Mike Deodato Jr

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Because Something Should Take Your Mind Off the Current Medical Disaster...Here Come CORONAVIRUS COMICS...

...by presenting tales of fictional epidemics/pandemics both on this blog...