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Monday, February 21, 2005
Chaykin in the news
Looking over CBR's report on the "Beyond the DC Universe panel I noticed there are some Howard Chaykin tidbits. Me being a big fan and proponent of Chaykin's work I was quite pleased to see some of what was revealed here. There's going to be a sequel to Bite Club, City of Tomorrow is described as "Untouchables meets Westworld," he might bring back American Flagg with Dynamic Forces and most importantly (I think) is the promise of a sequel to Black Kiss which is my all-time favorite Chaykin book.
The Chaykin wit was not missing either. There's his regret over the lack of romance books:
"Romance fiction is the only genre that hasn't had a breakout book. I've been trying to decode romance fiction for then years, and I want to write a really good romance novel. Why not put graphic novels and chick lit together?"
There's also his description of Promethea ("archetypal British art fag comic book") and his memories of having Quitter artist Dean Haspiel as his assistant ("He used to be my assistant. He used to take his shirt off a lot"). Used to? Whatever.
Before I go I would also like to point to John at Commonplacebooks's look at Promethea #32 (I'm sure he's thrilled to be coupled with Chaykin's take on the book). In my course of reading the series I have not read that issue yet so I'm looking at a lot of people's takes on that book. Jog's write-up (scroll down to the 2/18/05 post as I couldn't get the permalink to work) as well as Abhay's have also be informative. I am interested in John's because he doesn't seem to be much for it and my suspicions is that I won't be as well. I'm an atheist and don't know how much patience I'll have for what seems like a lecture on magick (I could take Grant Morrison's Invisibles because, as Abhay points out, it wasn't didactic like Abhay claims Moore is. I did, on the other hand, feel a bit repelled by Robert Anton Wilson’s stuff). That being said I'm enjoying the book now (up to issue #8) so we'll see how it turns out.
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