Wroom
- Published: #52-58 (November 1990 to May 1991) [1]
- Writer: Igor Goldkind (as IZ) [1]
- Artist: Dix [1]
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A list of stories published in the Fleetway Publications comic Crisis between 1989 and 1991.
An examination of the Bible John killings in Glasgow.
An account of the Tiananmen Square protests, and the authorities' brutal crackdown.
Retired Colonel Dan Dare finds the future far than idyllic.
Belfast layabout Dougie Patterson is set to marry his long-suffering, pregnant girlfriend Valerie. The only sticking point is that Dougie insists on making his even more crass friend Ivor Thompson his best man, despite the inherent contradiction in terms.
A Panamanian padre receives a visitor from his dark past, a former army general on the run from the American military.
The misadventures of jazz musician Monty Happenstance and translator Lucius Kismet.
Frank Murray begins a 12-year stint in the dehumanising jail system of Northern Ireland.
In 1912 Liverpool, Austrian immigrant Alois and his wife Bridget reluctantly host the former's brother Adolf, a failed painter searching for the Holy Grail.
In 2047, the 51 states of America (including England as the 51st) each possess genetically modified Optimen. Created with superhuman 'hard' and 'soft' talents, these are essentially biological weapons, and the world is in the grip of fear of genetic engineering and political warmongering.
Unemployed artist Danny lands the role of Robin Hood at a new Nottingham theme part designed to commercialise the memory of the folk hero.
Cop turned private eye Alack Sinner gets involved in a racially-charged case in Harlem.
Tomboyish Weeny begins flat-sharing with Holly in Camden Town while trying to escape the temptation of returning to her former life of theft.
A young homosexual man wrestles with the stigma of being gay in contemporary Britain.
In the near future, global corporations are exploiting commercial opportunities in the developing world under the guise of FreeAid, a military security force. Eve Collins, an unemployed university graduate, is conscripted as a soldier working for FreeAid.
After falling into a pond chasing Federico Fellini's hat, a beautiful woman finds herself in a strange, magical world.
In 1989 Belfast, protestant youth Tom Boyd finds himself unwittingly drawn into an IRA plot - and becoming friends with catholic volunteer Damian McWilliams.
After growing increasingly cynical about the Christians he encounters in day-to-day life, teenager Nigel Gibson becomes fascinated after a chance encounter with Terry Adair, a man who plans to kill God by using a terror campaign against organised religion to draw the deity out into the open.
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