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Exploring alternate realities, this collection features beloved heroes placed in unconventional settings, ranging from historical to fantastical realms. Each story challenges the familiar narratives, presenting unique scenarios where familiar characters navigate bizarre circumstances that defy the traditional boundaries of their universes. Through imaginative storytelling, it invites readers to experience the unexpected and reimagine the essence of heroism in diverse contexts.

You think you've read everything about Hollywood? Think Again! And when legendary creator Howard Chaykin is in the director's chair, expect the unexpected. Follow the adventures of two former members of Roosevelt's Rough Riders cavalry, who arrive in Hollywood in 1913 and find themselves caught in the web of a dangerous new world. As the first Sicilian mobsters make their way to the City of Angels, the two heroes find themselves recruited as mercenaries for the movie studios and drawn into the cutthroat world of cinema, with a front- row seat to the building of a new American empire. With its action-packed narrative and exciting new historical setting, Sunshine Patriots is a must-read for fans of the Western genre and anyone interested in the early days of Hollywood and the formation of one of the most important facets of modern American culture. Written, drawn and delivered by Howard Chaykin (Hey Kids, Comics!, American Flagg,...).

Graphically experimental, narratively daring and visually explosive, HowardChaykin's Time2 was a work ahead of its time. Now, to commemorate theproject's 35th anniversary with the arrival of its long-awaitedconclusion...it still is. In addition to remastered versions of thelong-out-of-print first two volumes, The Epiphany and The Satisfaction of BlackMariah, the Time2 Omnibus completes the trilogy with the new 48-page volumeHallowed Ground0, plus many never-before-seen extras from the project.

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

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

Dan Brereton’s Eisner-nominated lush, innovative, and action-packed stories of supernatural menace and gritty heroics are collected in this second volume omnibus edition, featuring weird tales of horror and crime.The Nocturnals revolves around the mysterious quest of underworld enforcer and occult figure, Doc Horror; his supernaturally-gifted daughter Evening (aka Halloween Girl) who carries a pumpkin full of haunted toys; the Gunwitch, a silent, two-gun revenant with an itch to kill monsters; the lissome wraith Polychrome, and a host of hard-boiled inhuman players battling hidden evils lurking on the outskirts of human knowledge.Collects the previously published Nocturnals The Dark Forever , Outskirts of Doom , Spectres , and A Nocturnal Alphabet .

Dan Brereton’s lush, innovative, action-packed stories of supernatural menace and gritty heroics are finally collected in this first volume omnibus edition, starting with “Black Planet”, the Eisner-nominated graphic novel which kicked off years of captivating weird tales of horror and crime. The Nocturnals revolves around the mysterious quest of underworld enforcer and occult figure, Doc Horror; his supernaturally-gifted daughter Evening (aka Halloween Girl) who carries a pumpkin full of haunted toys; the Gunwitch, a silent, two-gun revenant with an itch to kill monsters; the lissome wraith Polychrome, and a host of hard-boiled inhuman players battling hidden evils lurking on the outskirts of human knowledge. Collects the previously published Nocturnals volumes: Black Planet, Witching Hour, Carnival of Beasts, Troll Bridge, and The Dark Forever.

HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket.Artists and writers, conmen and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business―or at least the tail that wags the dog.Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty......although in the end, everyone was guilty of something.Collects Hey Kids! Comics! #1-5

Howard Chaykin and Gerald Parel modernize the formative first days of a super hero and Pop Culture icon! Billionaire weapons manufacturer Tony Stark lived a life of wealth and privilege. That all changed when an onsite visit to a war-torn nation went horribly wrong, leaving Tony gravely injured in the hands of dangerous extremists - one of whom was a former friend! When asked to build a weapon, Tony instead constructed a mechanized suit of armor and escaped. But the horrors he left behind are coming for retribution, and the only way to stop them is for the carefree playboy to become...the Iron Man! Collecting: Iron Man: Season One (2013)

An America sundered. An Americaenraged. AnAmerica terrified. An America shattered by greed and racism,violence and fear, nihilism and tragedy... ...and that's when everything really goesto hell. Collects the entire six-issue series bylegendary creator HOWARD CHAYKIN.