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SATELLITE SAM #1

(W) Matt Fraction (A) Howard Chaykin

 SEX o DEATH o LIVE TV!
NEW YORK CITY, 1951: The host of beloved daily television serial "Satellite Sam" turns up dead in a flophouse filled with dirty secrets. The police think it was death by natural causes but his son knows there was something more... if only he could sober up long enoguh to do something about it. This noir mystery shot through with sex and violence exposes the seedy underbelly of the golden age of television.

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Normally when you get "sex and violence" in a solicit, one must assume it is being used just to help sell a book cuz they can't think of any better way to push it, but when you've got a name like Howard Chaykin involved, well, this sh*t just went to NC-17, baby. Get ready for the golden age of dirty secrets as Matt Fraction and Chaykin bring you the filthy, glitzy and glamorous underside of the American delusion! For fans of American Flagg, American Splendor, Casanova and Black Kiss!!

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!

 

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SHADOW: BLOOD AND JUDGEMENT TP

(W/A) Howard Chaykin

Written and illustrated by legendary and award-winning comic book creator Howard Chaykin, The Shadow: Blood & Judgment is collected for the first tim

e since 1991!!! Chaykin's dynamic, visceral style added a new dimension to The Shadow of the 1980's!

The laugh had vanished...the mocking, sinister laugh that signaled doom for the petty souls whose wrongdoing stained the world. It was gone, lost in the night that echoed it. Now, one by one, his friends and operatives are being ruthlessly murdered. Someone is trying to draw him out. Thirty-five years later, it is time for him to return. The laugh is here again.

The Shadow is back. God help the guilty.
RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!

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BLACK KISS II #1

(W/A) Howard Chaykin

Sex, death, and the movies - what else really matters?
Nearly twenty five years ago, HOWARD CHAYKIN brought the 80s to a close, and comics to the brink, with his landmark erotic thriller, BLACK KISS. Now, after years of anticipation, he's back with issue one of BLACK KISS II, a six-part miniseries that tells the story behind that legendary story - like the original, in glorious black and white.
And really, now - does it have to be so dirty?

Filling the gaping hole of classy American erotica, Chaykin returns with his landmark series filled with desire, deceit and more ***jobs than you can shake a stick at. Love him or hate him, Chaykin remains one of the most unabashedly outspoken comic creators, constantly pushing the limits of what the medium is capable of handling. If you've only seen recent Chaykin, take a trip back to the days of AMERICAN FLAGG and prepare to have you socks blown off! You will never look at comics in the same light! RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!