Black Hammer #1 - "Welcome to Black Hammer"

[tripodeca113]

"I actually came up with Black Hammer and started working on it (designing characters, etc.) back in 2008. I had just finished Essex County and this was really me taking my love of superheroes and channeling it through the rural setting and aesthetic of Essex.

The first comic book I ever remember reading was a DC digest that reprinted some Justice Society stories from the 1970s by Paul Levitz and Joe Staton. My mom bought it for me at the grocery store. I was probably five or so. And it never stopped.

DC’s Who’s Who also had a huge impact on me. It introduced me to the massive library of DC characters and also a wide variety of artists. That and Crisis on Infinite Earths both came out in 1985 when I was nine. They are probably the two biggest influences on my life and on Black Hammer."

Jeff Lemire

(8.66 pages out of 26)














Abraham, Gail and Barbalien head off into town.



In his human form Barbalien runs into the towns new priest.



Gail has gotten caught trying to shoplift cigarettes, and the local sheriff blames Abraham (he's been posing as her grandfather in public, since they arrived).



Later back at the farm...



Among the missing heroes was her father Joseph Weber, the Black Hammer. However she believes that their still alive somewhere.

Comments

[tripodeca113]

I think Abraham's old-fashioned and doesn't believe in home-schooling.