Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Writer: Amy Chu
Artist: Kewber Baal
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

With the coolest face paint this side of Alice Cooper, black leather and metal stage gear and Gene Simmons’ prehensile tongue, the rock band Kiss were natural comic book fodder, but if you think Kiss #1 is another rock ‘n’ roll/horror ultra-violent mash-up, think again.

Kiss #1 is not their four colour debut but this time around writer Amy Chu has chosen to transplant the fearsome four into a dystopian future, and, if anyone can survive the almost total destruction of the planet, it has to be Kiss, right?

In Kiss #1 four fun loving but frustrated teens living in the underground city of Blackwell and desperate to escape back up to the surface, find an old map that leads them to mysterious tunnels and the Morpheus machine, which is going to be significant but my lips are sealed on just how, lest I spoil the cliffhanger ending.

Kiss #1 is mainly backstory and you don’t get to see much of the band themselves, but you can’t judge a song by the intro alone. Stick with it and by the middle eight you’ll be ‘up and rock ‘n’ rollin’ with the rest’ as a certain Mr Holder once said.

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker