The best comic that this board barely ever talks about.
The comic that all your favorite comics steal from.
A comic so far ahead of its time you may get whiplash reading it.
This is the first 12 issues of American Flagg
This is Howard Chaykin's masterpiece
Letters by Ken Bruzenak
Colors by Lynn Varley
Come Along and be Amazed.
>>83864358
When I first started collecting comics, I would get these 3-pack of First comics from the dollar store. My friends thought they were weird and dumb, but that's where I found American Flagg, Badger, Jon Sable, Grimjack, and a bunch of other badass comics.
Looking forward to this, OP.
>>83864428
This was back in 1992/93.
His art seems like it would take a while to draw with all the texturing he does.
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>>83864463
First was the best comics publisher ever.
>>83864566
They were pretty good for sure.
The best single page of Exposition you will find in comics.
Chaykin is fucking work to read. like a good way. i've got a trade of the first 6 issues, only 12 are collected for some reason???
>>83864636
Because those 12 are the core issues the series meanders around a lot after that
1-12 is what people consider as top American Flagg
>>83864636
I should say American Flagg, stuff like Twilight I can get into
>>83864654
I am the opposite I have that recent collection of Twilight and I can't get into it.
It is Gorgeous but...
This page is so good
As a /k/ommando I find these gun designs appalling. Zero effort
I really enjoyed the first volume of this but after he got into the threesome relationship I got a little bored of it. Great series with fantastic art though.
>not reading the best storytime on /co/
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>>83864676
His Time2 is fucking brilliant.
>>83865026
As is all the stuff of his I have read in Heavy Metal
I am not as big a Black Kiss fan as some other people I know.
80s was the best decade for indie comics. Probably for comics in general.
>>83865047
I would agree with the latter but not the former
>>83865063
I love that press guy with the backpack and camera on his head.
>>83865063
Nah. Between First, Eclipse, Comico, etc. there were easily more quality indie books than any other period.
>>83865149
I would say right now easily.
One of my favorite things in comics when people actually have the SFX letters morph to what the action is they are representing.
Everyone took that from Moebius but it always looks so great >>83865175
>>83865175
Right now is better? Image has very little worth reading if anything, IDW only has a few titles, Dark Horse is a shadow of its former self, Dynamite is shit, Avatar is shit, BOOM is shit.
>>83865220
We may be talking about different things, Independent comics to me is
Koyama is Breakdown is 2dCloud is PictureBox is etc etc & self publishing
>>83865246
Most of that shit still sucks though. Cerebus and Bone were self published and those beat any current self published book.
>>83865273
I disagree but we had already established that.
So what's the best thing Chaykin did that's not American Flagg then?
>>83865610
Probably Time2
>>83865610
Time2 (pronounced "Time Squared")
>>83865629
Him and Simonson did these one page Shakespeare comics for Heavy Metal that are amazing and I really like too
>>83865273
What have you read from Koyama that sucked?
>>83864636
>Chaykin is fucking work to read. like a good way
I really enjoy the 3 issue prestige mini he did for Blackhawk
>>83864358
I love American Flagg. Although it peters out a bit towards the end.
>>83864463
It's funny, I got into comics later and I would buy 3-packs of comics at the dollar store too. They contained mostly comics from 92/93.
>>83866173
The first comics I read was one of those I got in an Easter Basket as a kid
It was an issue of Kamandi
A random ass Shadows of the Empire comic and I can't remember the third.
It was fantastic.
>>83866103
Chaykin got some really great artists to come on after him, but it just didn't feel right. Like I love Mark Badger, but not a fan of his Flagg issues
>>83866190
My first comics where a bunch of 90's ones. Greg Capullo on X-Force, Andy Kubert on X-Men, and Mark Bagley on New Warriors. I think it's why I have a soft spot for the whole 90's excess period
Spiral left a hell of an impression on little me
>>83866254
Not a bad choice even in the 80s Spiral and the Body Shoppe was pretty great
>>83866278
Well that was Art Adams so of course it was great.
I can't wait for X-Anon to get to New Mutants Special Edition
>>83866345
and Romita Jr and Barry Smith
>>83866365
I couldn't off the top of my head think who was on Uncanny at the time.
>>83866389
That is my favorite era of X-Books, Romita is so good on that book and the 3 BWS issues are spectacular.
Also it somehow even makes the best of Secret Wars 2
>>83866403
Romita went straight form Uncanny to Daredevil right? Mostly Dan Green inking on the former and Al Williamson on the latter make his art look so good
>>83866422
Yeah it was Iron Man - X-Men - Daredevil
And Then all over the place, those two is where it looks the best.
His Punisher is really spectacular too
>>83866441
Oh yeah War Zone. I'm missing one issue from that
I went out and bought the Byrne/JRJR Iron Man issues after you storytimed them
>>83866345
Art Adams is just fucking amazing in general.
