Plot:
Adam Moon and his teenage friends go to the circus to hang out and avoid the stifling small town boredom that plagues them. While there, Adam receives disturbing, unsolicited advice from some of the circus cast and begins to see flashes of frightening figures. Confused, Adam becomes separated from his friends and is beckoned into the blind fortune tellers hut where his life as an abused child is reviewed. Dazed by the turn of events, Adam runs home before he can receive further advice. Elsewhere, after the show, the Ringmaster morphs into a strange creature...
Story by Brian Holguin.
Pencils by Angel Medina.
Inks by Kevin Conrad.
Color by Brian Haberlin and Dan Kemp.
Lettering by Richard Starkings and Comicraft's Kiff Scholl.
Art direction and desing by Brent Ashe.
KISS REFERENCES
Page 3 (Frame 5): ...and the wagons head off into the night.
Reference: From the album: Frehley's Comet (1987) (Ace Frehley Solo Project), song #3, Into The Night.
Page 3 (Frame 5): And this lost army of the twilight, these kings of the night time world, move on.
Reference: From the album: Destroyer (1976), song #2, King Of The Night Time World.
Page 3 (Frame 5): And this lost army of the twilight, these kings of the night time world, move on.
Reference: From the album: Paul Stanley (1978), song #2, Move On.
Page 11 (Frame 4): Like a fractured mirror casting many reflections...
Reference: From the album: Ace Frehley (1978), song #10, Fractured Mirror.
First issue. Good story, the authors are slowly starting to describe us the KISS caracters more as spirits than superheroes, so that's from my point of view a great concept. They don't have a lot of interaction in this first issue but they will have more of it in further issues. The cover is horrible (it seems to be that way for the first 6 issues) but the inside drawings colors are really beautiful, rarely I've seen comic books looking so good. For a first issue it's a really good effort. Not a lot of references in it, but again they will bring more on further issues.
Plot:
After the killing of the policeman who was chasing Adam and his friend, Moon goes back home, but he cannot 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 and one day as he comes home, the ambulance's taking his almost dead father. Adam goes back to the circus 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. Later he wakes up in an empty field and walk to his sister's grave.
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 (Frame 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 (Frame 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 (Frame 5): REVENGE.
Reference: From the album: Revenge (1992).
Pages 5 & 6 (bottom right of page 5 and on Frame 1, 2 & 3 on page 6): The buttons on Trace's jacket.
Reference: Those buttons are like Gene's costume spikes.
Page 6 (Frame 5): I didn't sleep at all that night.
Reference: From the album: Peter Criss (1978), song #3, Tossin' And Turnin'.
Page 16 (Frame 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 21 (Frame 5): I just came to say goodbye.
Reference: From the album: Paul Stanley (1978), song #9, Goodbye.
Page 22 (Frame 3): The cemetery gates.
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.