Plot:
After the killing of the policeman who was chasing Adam and his friend, Moon goes back home, but he's not able sleep. He realizes that things are starting to change, strange things are happening and this time in his favor, all caused by the Four-Who-Are-One. The only thing that haven't changed for the kid was the beating from his father. He wish him dead, one day as he comes home, the ambulance's taking his almost dead father. Every hit Adam had suffer from his father was shown by some kind of scar on his father body. Adam goes back to the circus, enters in a tent and sees his father on a bed with the four-who-are-one above him. They're making realize to Adam that there's a consequence to every act and thought and he makes the choice to face what he hoped for every night of his life. He wakes up later in an empty field and goes to his sister grave telling her that he chooses to be like himself not like his father.
Story by Brian Holguin.
Pencils by Angel Medina.
Inks by Kevin Conrad.
Color by Brian Haberlin, Dan Kemp and Pat Duke.
Lettering by Richard Starkings and Comicraft's Kiff Scholl.
Cover by Michael Golden.
Art direction and desing (KISS icons and Psycho Circus logo) by Brent Ashe.
KISS REFERENCES
Page 1 (box #5): The creature has been called by many names in many times and many places -- Demon, Deliverer, Destroyer...
Reference: The name given to Gene Simmons was the Demon.
Page 1 (box #5): The creature has been called by many names in many times and many places -- Demon, Deliverer, Destroyer...
Reference: From the album: Destroyer (1976)
Page 1 (box #5): REVENGE.
Reference: From the album: Revenge (1992)
Pages 5 & 6 (bottom right of page 5 and on box # 1, 2 & 3 on page 6): The buttons on Trace's jacket.
Reference: Those buttons look like Gene's costume spikes.
Page 6 (box #5): I didn't sleep at all that night.
Reference: From the album: Peter Criss (1978), song #3, Tossin' And Turnin'.
Page 16 (box #1): We gotta a game for you, Adam. It's called Childhood's End.
Reference: From the album: Carnival Of Souls-
The Final Sessions (1997), song #4, Childhood's End.
Page 22 (box #3): The iron fence at the graveyard.
Reference: Band member make-up in the wrought iron fence.
Great story, KISS are not your regular superheroes, they're more like souls or mystical agents of destiny. The drawing, the colors are great and again the cover is lame. The first two issues really push us to look into the future issues to see if KISS will develop like we saw it in the first two.
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