BEN TINSLEY: We got reviewed!

Hey, guys:

We were lucky enough to get a recent review for Two-Fisted Adventures #1 from Ron Fortier, a professional writer with over 25 years of time in the show, writing comic book projects such as The Hulk, Popeye, Rambo and Peter Pan.

To be honest with you, the two comic series of his that really kicked my a@# were The Green Hornet and The Terminator. He did Terminator with the fantastic Alex Ross.

Anyway, here's his review, which originally was printed on the fantastic comics news website Comicrelated.com. Hope you enjoy.

Thanks,

BEN TINSLEY
Publisher
Wham Bang Comics

2-Fisted Adventures #1 (Christmas Variant)
$4.25
COMICS LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE

A Review of Two-Fisted Adventures # 1
by Ron Fortier
(Imported from www.comicrelated.com)

More than twenty years ago I attended a small convention at a Howard Johnson’s in Portsmouth N.H.

The convention was sponsored by the owner of a local comic shop and he made it a point of inviting talent from the neighborhood.

That included two young fellows who wanted to debut their brand new, black and white comic book.

It was an awkward looking book, oversized and the art inside was way too dark and crudely rendered.

I bought a copy, wanting to support these likeable guys whose talented was obvious, if a bit crude. There was nothing amateurish about their love of comics.

They were Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird and the book was the first ever issue of something called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

While reading through the first issue of Two-Fisted Adventures, I found myself remembering that day often. Don’t get me wrong, the two books in shape, style and production are leagues apart.

Where they are exactly alike is in the tons of enthusiasm for comics that jumps out at you on every single page of this new comic.

And unlike TMNT, this is an anthology with many different concepts and voices, all to the good, I might add.

The brain child of Ben Tinsley and his son, Jake, Two-Fisted Adventures is very much about the love of comics. Night Owl is a manga inspired super-hero strip, as is the book’s final entry, Sentinels of Liberty.

It’s rock and sockem action start to finish. John Doe is way more adult in orientation and perhaps the best written piece in the collection, albeit very, very short. An idea like this should have been given a few more pages to breathe.

Whereas Genius is perhaps the most professional tale and features a great new character in Tanya, the sponge-like librarian with the world’s knowledge at her command. I’m going to be very, very anxious to see where this goes next.

Two-Fisted Adventures # 1. Why you should you race out and buy it? It isn’t often comic book lightning strikes. Ask all those imitators who tried copying TMNT and failed miserable.

TFA is an original worthy of your both your attention and support. Buy it, read it and enjoy it. I sure as hell did.

-- Ron Fortier

BEN TINSLEY: We're on ROK!

Wham Bang Comics Art Director Jason Dube and I recently started submitting our Night Owl comic strip to ROK Comics, a Lancaster, UK-based company that publishes licensed and creator-owned comics for use over cell phones.

After a very short time. ROK Managing Editor John Freeman contacted me about continuing to submit comics to them, for immediate publication and for possible syndication after we finish 20 strips. So far, we've had at least three of our current comics posted on their Internet front page.

I totally love ROK. These guys are tireless and hungry to succeed -- all the elements a company needs to skyrocket to the top.

Our strip is usually published in a typical one-page format, the same type of layout you'd see if you opened a comic book. But to accomodate the "order your strip over the cell phone" style of ROK, we've had to take our already-finished comic pages and reformat them a bit, breaking down each adventure panel-by-panel so that you can access the story on your cell one panel at a time.

And ROK won't just take anything you give them. We recently had a strip returned, with the editor asking us to work on the punch line a bit. We did just that and I think the end result is better.

I'm really hoping ROK decides to syndicate us after we hit the 20 strip mark. Jason, my son Jake, and I are in the process of mass production of our comic strips right now. We're hoping for a long and healthy relationship with ROK.

Just part of our ongoing campaign to bring you Wham Bang-tastic entertainment!

Thanks,

BEN TINSLEY
Publisher,
Wham Bang Comics

Check this out! The ROK Comics experience!

BEN TINSLEY

Special Christmas issue at www.comiXpress.com at a discount price!

Starting next week, Wham Bang Comics will start publishing a special variant of Two-Fisted Adventures 1. It's the same basic issue as before, but with a brand new cover, more comics, and a drastically -- HUGELY -- reduced price.

We will only be publishing this special collector's item Christmas variant through Dec. 25.

We're reducing our price from $5.95 to $4.25. We're stuffing brand new comic strip material inside these 52 pages and packaging the comic book in Christmas cheer. It should make a great, economical gift for the kids as well as comic reading adults! Easy, too. just access www.comiXpress.com, point and click and a copy will be delivered right to your home!

Check www.comiXpress.com next week for the debut of this special issue!

And .. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thanks,

BEN TINSLEY
Publisher
Wham Bang Comics