Reading Comic Books

The Immortal HULK

| Costas Barbatsis

What I am currently reading on Marvel Unlimited is the Immortal HULK, written by Al Ewing and penciled by Joe Bennet with colours by Paul Mounts and inks by Ruy José Each issue has covers by Alex Ross! Up to now I have read three issues which I liked them so much that I though I should
spread the word.

Issue one of the Immortal Hulk was interesting although I did think I have seen this approach to the character before.

With issue two I had the impression on how the storyline would go, it had a darker feeling to it almost a touch of a horror movie which I liked a lot.

And issue three was simply entertaining!!! One story said by the point of view of four people which means each view was portrayed by the unique style of four different artists Leonardo Romero, Paul Hornschemeier, Marguerite Sauvage and Gary Brown with Joe Bennet doing the framing sequence! It was an amazing issue and I enjoyed reading every single page of it.

Al Ewing is reintroducing the dynamic duo personalities of Bruce Banner and Hulk in a way that I believe will entertain both old and new readers and Joe Bennet’s art is just perfect, defined and detailed!

I will be back for issue four and I strongly suggest for you to check it out.

Blast from the past

| Costas Barbatsis

I do not remember which of the two I read first but Blek and Asterix where two comic books that I would read occasionally when I was a kid.
Both were translated in Greek as ΜΠΛΕΚ and Αστερίξ.

The very first time I read Asterix was when I was about 11 and my cousin lent me all the issues that had been published up to then.
What a blast, the art was amazing and the stories were such humorous adventures, it was such a sad day when my cousin after repeatedly asking me to give the comics back she finally came over and picked them up her self.

Blek was a comic which Ι picked up by chance because I didn’t have something else to read. It was an anthology of comics I wasn’t that interested in Blek’s adventures.I was amazed though by several other comics which were featured in it, like Aria and the Leopard from Lime Street.

The reason I was reading them occasionally was that my pocket money was not enough to buy all the comics which were coming out when I was a kid and later they had stopped being published.

Now they have come back Blek is published by Μικρός Ήρως and Asterix by Μαμούθ Comix

Hooked, inspired and entertained!

| Costas Barbatsis

The comic book that got me hooked on superhero comics was X-Men.

A comic book translated in Greek and published by ΜΑΜΟΥΘ COMIX (Μαμουθ Comix) way back in 1987.

It was so different compared to all the other comics that I was reading up to then, the format was bigger it had coloured pages and it featured three superhero stories.

The stories were written almost a decade before I got the chance to read them but they still seemed so fresh and the art was stunning.

I was hooked, inspired and entertained!

I still love reading it after all these years.