Allen: Son of Hellcock #1 is one of the funniest launches to a comic book series I’ve set my eyes on this year. In a year packed with such books as Jem and the Holograms and Welcome to Showside debuting in comic shops, that a high bar that Tracy, Porto, and Koplowitz have hurdled. While clutching on to the funny, Allen: Son of Hellcock lovingly pokes at fantasy tropes while embracing and revering them for what they bring to the table. Read Full Review

Tracy and Koplowitz stuff much of this issue with funny moments either via the spirit or background characters and that's fun for any fan of fantasy. The first issue of Allen: Son of Hellcock is a lot of fun and you should take the chance to go along for the ride. Read Full Review

Overall, Allen: Son of Hellcock is a welcomed series. I wish there were more series that were comedic each month. There's so much drama and angst in comics that just getting a good funny book is a challenge. It feels like they're so few and far between when comedy overflows other mediums. Let's hope Allen and other funny books are the rise of comedic comic books. If you want a laugh or just want to see a "what if" about Conan, then check out Allen: Son of Hellcock. Read Full Review

Allen: Son of Hellcock is a great, fun read. The characters come to life and seem to pop off the page through beautiful, expressive art, and the imaginative storyline and silly characters are full of life and sarcasm;these things fill theHellcockworld.It's a bizarre combination of past and present, modernity and medieval, and that is a central part of what makes this particular comic so fascinating. Read Full Review

With its bone dry sense of humor, hilarious parodies of sword and sorcery tales, colorful art, and a likeable loser protagonist, Allen, Son of Hellcock #1 stands out from the legions of fantasy comics hitting shelves. Writers Will Tracy and Gabe Koplowitz and artist Miguel Porto also start to show how one writes a fantasy story in a world where all the epic battles have been fought, heroes slain, and villains have won. It is filled with laughs, anachronisms, and a character, who will hit close to home for many readers. (Because barely getting paid for your writing sucks.) Read Full Review

Reading the book, I had a couple of laugh out not so loud moments, which suggests that more is to come from this series. Bear in mind, this is the first issue, so it is very much a scene setter. The book has a huge potential for humour, bearing in mind that Will Tracy is a writer HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; you would expect him to bring the funny which I hope will be the case in subsequent issues. Read Full Review