Hokum & Hex
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Hokum & Hex is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics' Razorline imprint, created by filmmaker and horror/fantasy novelist Clive Barker, written by Frank Lovece and penciled by Anthony Williams.
The series centered on Trip Monroe, a failing stand-up comic who through apparently random circumstances becomes Earth's protector against the fundamentalist warriors of an extradimensional god who is attempting to convert the planet. Monroe was imbued with the ability to change physical items from one thing to another, although the process, which depended on exactness of mind, did not always work as envisioned. Once, trying to change something into a club for defense, he found himself holding a large playing-card club symbol (fortunately, though inadvertently, sharp-edged and ax-like).
As Barker described, "I wanted to do something that was magical and mystical in the way that Doctor Strange was and still is. Doctor Strange was one of my favourite comics from when I was a kid. So I suppose Hokum & Hex is my take on that".[1]
Hokum & Hex ran nine issues (Sept. 1993 - May 1994) before being discontinued with the rest of the Razorline titles. A subsequent one-shot, Hyperkind Unleashed, featuring the Razorline's superhero team, included a "Hokum & Hex" prose short story by Lovece.
