But I felt putting Chaykin's name on the book was a way to try to keep me around. Had Chaykin been on the book, I probably would have given it more time. It was like reading a carnival mirror version of the universe, recognizable but just not right. I desperately wanted to be Chaykin, but it wasn't. Same characters, but still no Chaykin on writing or art. When he left, the book sort of floundered.Ī few years later, they resurrected the book as 'Howard Chaykin's American Flagg'. When I really want to read the actual creator but I get a ghost writer or someone trying to write like the original creator, I give the book a little less rope.įor example, I love American Flagg, at least the early issues written and drawn by Howard Chaykin. but it ain't that good.īut I did want to comment on the books which carry a creator's name. I am also the guy who kind of eye rolls at Gaiman's Sandman. RICK VEITCH is a renowned writer/artist best known for his collaborations with Alan Moore on "Miracleman" and DC Comics' "Swamp Thing" and his groundbreaking solo work on "Brat Pack" and "The Maximortal.I freely admit that I haven't read any of these books from this universe. PAUL JENKINS is an award winning comics writer known for his work on HELLBLAZER, THE INCREDIBLE HULK and BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT. NEIL GAIMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels 'Neverwhere' (1995), 'Stardust' (1999), the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning 'American Gods' (2001), 'Anansi Boys' (2005), and 'Good Omens' (with Terry Pratchett, 1990), as well as the short story collections 'Smoke and Mirrors' (1998) and 'Fragile Things' (2006).īRYAN TALBOT is an Eisner award winning writer/artist best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman on Sandman: "The Song of Orpheus" and his own pioneering graphic novels "The Adventures of Luther Arkwright" and "the Tale of One Bad Rat." Is he a mutated dinosaur mad genius or something even far worse? Despite the impossible odds against defeating such a creature, there are those who try, and even when it might seem that they've won, reality reveals yet another truth that will shock you About the Author He delights as it all plays out and just when it looks like things can't get any worse-they do. Whether it's creating Moolahbux and watching how the quest for wealth will corrupt and destroy an entire civilization or imprisoning actual deities and trying to bend them to his will, no plan is too far-fetched or impossible. At the center of the Wheel of Worlds, on the planet Kalighoul, one centuries-old creature known as Teknophage watches all and plots and executes the most diabolical evil schemes ever imagined.
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