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An America sundered. An America enraged. An America terrified. An America shattered by greed and racism, violence and fear, nihilism and tragedy and that ''s when everything really goes to hell. Collects THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA #1-6

Digging deeper into the sordid, seedy, and always-entertaining lives of the men and women who built the comic book business, volume two of HOWARD CHAYKIN’s acclaimed comic à clef tells the story of those who pushed the boundaries of the lowest common denominator—at their own peril—and those happy enough to ride the waves others created. Along the way there’s exploitation, Blaxploitation, custom toilet paper, death at the dinner table, and plenty more, as fans turn pro and pros turn bitter. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS!, VOL. II: PROPHETS & LOSS #1-6

Graphically experimental, narratively daring, and visually explosive, HOWARD CHAYKIN''s TIME2 was a work ahead of its time. Now, to commemorate its return more than 35 years later with its long-awaited conclusion…it still is.

A landmark of 1980s comics, American Flagg! is Howard Chaykin’s groundbreaking sci-fi classic about media manipulation, corporate fascism, and one reluctant hero fighting back.From its 1983 debut, American Flagg! was a breakout success, emerging from a new generation of small publishers, imprints now lost to history. Award-winning, narratively and graphically audacious, and ridiculously influential, its impact on comic book storytelling is still being felt today, in a story comically – and sometimes frighteningly – prescient about the world in which we live. It got some things wrong, but man, it got a lot more right. A lot. This fully remastered 1,064-page collection includes Howard Chaykin’s run on the series’ first 30 issues – more than half of which have never before been collected - plus the American Flagg! Special, all the Flagg! shorts from the years since, and a host of extras, in addition to an all-new 26-page story created for this volume. Collects American Flagg! Vol. 1 Issues 1-30, American Flagg! Special

It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life’s work as dismal failures and a waste of that life…in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation…until it collides with creatives who can’t even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else.  This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves as its decades-long and distorted mirror… Fandom. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS!, VOL. 3: THE SCHLOCK OF THE NEW #1-6

"Poisonous and bitter, an absurdly funny sucker punch demanding to be spat out." —Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals) The infamous, hardboiled-erotica series is collected for the first time in its entirety in paperback featuring new material.Collecting every stop along the way on HOWARD CHAYKIN’s transgressively groundbreaking trail, the BLACK KISS COMPENDIUM collects the legendary 1988 series, its 2012, sequel, the XXXMAS SPECIAL, and BLACK KISS HALLOWE’EN. Collects BLACK KISS #1-12, BLACK KISS II #1-6, BLACK KISS XXXMAS IN JULY SPECIAL, and BLACK KISS HALLOWE’E

It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life’s work as dismal failures and a waste of that life…in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation…until it collides with creatives who can’t even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else.This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves as its decades-long and distorted mirror…Fandom.Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS! VOL. 3: THE SCHLOCK OF THE NEW #1-6

In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places—some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. The result: heroes you know…in worlds you don’t.Batman’s prestige format Elseworlds tales are collected in this graphic novel collection.Featuring Batman as a holy priest, Harry Houdini alongside the Dark Knight, Dr. Wayne reanimating a Frankenstein-like Bat-Man, Batman as a Green Lantern, a supernatural Bat-Man fighting the evil wizard known as the Dark Joker, a future Robin fighting offan alien invasion and other tales!Collects BATMAN: HOLY TERROR; BATMAN: THE BLUE, THE GREY, AND THE BAT; ROBIN 3000 #1-2; BATMAN/DARK JOKER: THE WILD; BATMAN/HOUDINI: THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP; BATMAN: CASTLE OF THE BAT; BATMAN: IN DARKEST KNIGHT and BATMAN: DARK ALLEGIANCES!

In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places—some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist.The result: heroes you know…in worlds you don’t.Superman’s Elseworlds tales are featured in this new edition of the graphic novel collection.Featuring Superman as the Dark Knight, Kal-El raised in medieval times, Superman as the sole survivor of a nuclear Armageddon, Private Atticus Kent as an abolitionist superhero in the American Civil War, Superman the greatest athlete on Earth and Golden Age Superman at war with Mars!Collects SUPERMAN: SPEEDINGBULLETS, SUPERMAN: KAL, SUPERMAN: DISTANT FIRES,SUPERMAN: A NATION DIVIDED, SUPERMAN, INC. and SUPERMAN:WAR OF THE WORLDS!

A classic comic adaptation from the acclaimed fantasy author Michael Moorcock!In this story Erekose assumes the role of "Clen of Clen-Gar," a noble of the land called the "Dream Marches", part of a greater land called "Heaven".He befriends a peaceful race of beings known as "Angels", who can best be described in one of their forms as flying manatees. In the day-time, they gracefully float through Heaven, absorbing water vapour from the air, and by night they release the stored water as acid rain upon a neighboring land coincidentally called "Hell", whose savage inhabitants live in poverty compared to the luxury of Heaven and the Dream Marches. The angels can also assume an insectoid form similar to human sized ant-men.

Bruce Wayne jagt Batgirl und Robin! In dieser alternativen Comic-Welt wachen Batgirl und Robin über das Gotham City der frühen Sechzigerjahre und kämpfen als dynamisches Duo gegen Kriminelle und korrupte Polizisten. Bruce Wayne wurde nach der Ermordung seiner Eltern hingegen einer der besten Cops der Stadt! Nun soll er für Commissioner Gordon die beiden Kostümierten zur Strecke bringen, die das Gesetz in die eigenen Hände genommen haben – und die wie alle anderen keine Ahnung haben, was für finstere Zeiten ihnen bevorstehen… Dieser Band enthält die komplette Elseworlds-Saga Batman: Thrillkiller, geschrieben von Comic-Titan Howard Chaykin (BLACK KISS) und mit dem malerischen Artwork von Dan Brereton (DC PREMIUM 16: SUPERMAN & BATMAN – WORLD''S FINEST).

With the soon-to-be self-styled greatest generation grudgingly called to war, it’s high time for those back on the home front to step up and fill in for the fighting men overseas. But when the work needs writers and artists, and the only bodies available are unambitious halfwit hacks and talentless, overeager fans...will this be what kills the comic book cash cow?

MINISERIES FINALEWho lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail?HOWARD CHAYKIN’s three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom—joyful, toxic, proprietary, take your pick—paradigm shifted from captive audience to creative architect in no time flat.And sure, some of it didn’t happen. But it’s all true.

Just imagine! A full house of top indie comics characters, reunited in this second volume of prose fiction tales by the genius creators who first breathed life into them in the 1980s and beyond! Whether you lovingly remember these heroes and creators or are meeting them for the first time, you are in for a wild ride with this star-studded cast. They set the industry on fire in comics from indie publishing pioneers like First, AC, Capital, Charlton, Dynamite, Eclipse, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, and Vortex. Now, more than ever, we need them to remind us how fun and exciting comics can be. Strap in for a lineup unlike any you've seen before, crashing together old school indie pioneers and the new school trendsetters who continue to build on the revolution they started. The individual stories of each character—and the first-ever crossover event bringing many of them together—will take your breath away! Strap in for an awesome lineup, a dream team with the same raw power and quirky charm as that in Volume 1…and then some! Get a load of these superstars:·       Mike Baron - Author, Nexus·       Donna Barr – Author/Illustrator, The Desert Peach·       Bill Black – Author/Illustrator, Femforce·       Mark and Vaughn Bodē – Authors/Illustrators, Cheech Wizard and Junkwaffel·       Gary Carlson – Author, Megaton·       Howard Chaykin – Author/Illustrator, "e;Shabbos Goy"e;·       Colleen Doran – Author/Illustrator, A Distant Soil·       Garth Ennis – Author, Jamie·       Steven Grant – Author, Twilight Man·       Roberta Gregory – Author/Illustrator, Bitchy Bitch·       James Artimus Owen – Author/Illustrator, Starchild·       David Quinn – Author, Faust·       Walter Simonson – Author/Illustrator, Star Slammers·       John K. Snyder III – Author/Illustrator, Fashion in Action·       Joe and Hilarie Staton – Authors (and Illustrator, Joe Staton), E-Man and Nova Kane·       Jan Strnad – Author, Dalgoda·       Ty Templeton – Author/Illustrator, Stig's Inferno·       Mark Verheiden – Author, The American·       Henry Vogel – Author, Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves (aka X-Thieves)·       Mark Wheatley – Author/Illustrator, Frankenstein Mobster·       Bill Willingham – Author/Illustrator, Pantheon

Digging deeper into the sordid, seedy, and always entertaining lives of the men and women who built the comic book business, volume two of Howard Chaykin’s acclaimed Comics à clef tells the story of those who pushed the boundaries of the lowest common denominator–at their peril –and those happy enough to ride the waves others created. Along the way there’s exploitation, Blaxploitation, custom toilet paper, death at the dinner table and plenty more as fans turn pro and pros turn bitter.Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS! VOL. 1: PROPHETS & LOSS #1-5

Graphically experimental, narratively daring and visually explosive, Howard Chaykin’s Time2 was a work ahead of its time. Now, to commemorate the project’s 35th anniversary with the arrival of its long-awaited conclusion...it still is.In addition to remastered versions of the long-out-of-print first two volumes, The Epiphany and The Satisfaction of Black Mariah, the Time2 Omnibus completes the trilogy with the new 48-page volume Hallowed Ground0, plus many never-before-seen extras from the project.