New Releases by Howard Chaykin

Envy...self-loathing...jealousy...self-destruction...backstabbing—and that’s just Monday in this business they call show. Ruff and Reddy are not ready for this maelstrom of malice that’s a daily affair in the entertainment-industrial complex, while Pamela Chyron, their increasingly hard-bitten agent, finds herself cleaning up one mess before she’s finished burying another. It’s hell out there in Hollywood!

Ruff and Reddy have hit the skids, plunging from A-list to “huh?” to “wait, who?” and finally to “who cares?” Next stop for these pathetic has-beens on the treadmill to oblivion is the convention circuit—where their agent turns a potential disaster into a goldmine of publicity—and the comeback begins.

The most despised man in America finds himself at the crossroads of faith, of redemption, and of love...as Frank Villa is virtually alone in one last desperate attempt to countermand history repeating itself in its march to annihilation. I know just how he feels.

In the Golden Age of television, Ruff and Reddy were on top of the entertainment worldÉuntil the world turned, and they were forgotten. Now, Ruff is a washed-up television actor. Reddy is a clerk in an upscale grocery store. Can a hungry young agent convince the two one-time partners to make a comeback-and convince the world that it wants to see the famously infamous dog-and-cat comedy team back in the spotlight? DonÕt miss it if you can!

DCÕs iconic superheroes meet some of Hanna-BarberaÕs best-loved characters in the most unexpected stories of the year, collected here in DC MEETS HANNA-BARBERA. When Booster Gold tries to rescue future Earth from an alien invasion, he travels back in time and finds help from none other than Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble! In an unexplored sector of space, Green Lantern and Space Ghost join forces to help an alien race facing disaster! Adam Strange lands on an unfamiliar Earth, and only Jonny Quest, Hadji, Dr. Quest and Race Bannon can help him get home! And when Amanda Waller needs to rescue the Suicide Squad, she reaches out to the newest inmates in Belle Reve: animal rock band the Banana Splits! All this plus unexpected takes on Hanna-Barbera characters the Jetsons, Top Cat, Ruff ÕnÕ Reddy and Snagglepuss in a collection featuring some of comicsÕ top creators, among them Howard Chaykin, Mark Russell, Jeff Parker, James Tynion IV, Steve Lieber, Tony Bedard, Marc Andreyko, Ariel Olivetti, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Dan DiDio and Howard Porter! Collects BOOSTER GOLD/THE FLINTSTONES SPECIAL #1, GREEN LANTERN/SPACE GHOST SPECIAL #1, ADAM STRANGE/FUTURE QUEST SPECIAL #1 and SUICIDE SQUAD/BANANA SPLITS SPECIAL #1.

The surviving Challengers fight to save the world and regain their humanity! Master storyteller Howard Shaylin concludes his epic reconstruction of the Challengers of the Unknown in a way no one could see coming.

The remaining Challengers come face to face with the masters of the world and learn that the masses have been manipulated for quite some time. Now it''s up to the Challengers to free the world and beyond from Hegemony''s insidious grasp!

The origins of the Challengers are revealed! The curtain is pulled back just enough to get a glimpse of who our heroes are, who they were and how they came to be. Unfortunately, one of the Challengers will meet their final fate. The only question is, which one?

Five extraordinary survivors of a not-so-random terrorist attack put the pieces of their giant jigsaw puzzle back together just in time for their faces to be plastered all across the media as the perps! But the mystery deepens as their personal histories are revealed, and they discover that they are all connected by a lot less than six degrees.

Five extraordinary people with seemingly nothing in common share the bond of surviving a cataclysmic event. In a world devoid of super-heroes, they come together and discover that everything they know has been a lie, that the world we live in is not the one we believe it to be. To survive, they must unite and face the true masters of our universe. It''s a world where literally anything can happen, and probably will!

Five strangers thrown together by a random act of terrorism discover that all is not as it seems. Tugged and manipulated by the powers that really run the world, these extraordinary individuals now must find out who the puppet master behind the curtain is, and how they can cut the strings.

Jack KirbyÕs two wartime kid gangs share their first adventure together in a novel-length tale written and illustrated by Howard Chaykin! When the Boy Commandos arrive in New York on the trail of a secret Axis agent, theyÕre greeted as turf invaders by the crime-fighting Newsboys! Can these kids put aside their rivalry and join forces to protect the home front? Also features a Kirby reprint!

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

Trapped in a strange rift in time, Green Lantern and Space Ghost are forced to battle a variety of foesÑand each other! And even if they manage to survive, they will be thrown into a world with no concept of interstellar travelÑor even what an alien is! Stripped of their weapons by a xenophobic culture, the duo will have to battle to regain themÑbut what happens when Space Ghost dons the Emerald Ring and Hal Jordan put on the Power Bands? And in the backup feature, Ruff and Reddy were once the toast of nightclubs, variety shows, late night chat fests and Broadway. Learn how they became the comedic duo of yesterdayÉbefore they hit rock-bottom today!

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: stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow. Gotham City is caught in a vortex of corruption and decay, and those who feed on blood and despair are about to suck any remaining life from her dying veins. All that stands against them is the Batman, their legendary companion in the darkness, the last line of defense between the innocent and the screaming chaos of mindless appetite. To combat this primeval threat, however, the Dark Knight must give up everything he holds dear, including life itself—for death is only the first step toward the final reckoning between good and evil. Written by Doug Moench and illustrated in full gothic glory by Kelley Jones, John Beatty and Malcolm Jones III, ELSEWORLDS: BATMAN VOL. 2 gives free rein to the darker side of the World’s Greatest Detective, collecting BATMAN & DRACULA: RED RAIN, BATMAN: BLOODSTORM and BATMAN: CRIMSON MIST.

MINISERIES CONCLUSION A desperate race toward dawn a suburban bloodbath the deeper truth of memory and a tentative and fragile peace.

It''s Orion vs. a strength-increased Kalibak, in a battle to determine who rules Apokolips! But what secret does Desaad hold, and will it help or hurt Orion?

On the fringes of the Rann-Thanagar War, G''Nort of the Green Lantern Corps must find an arbiter to broker a peace deal! What neutral part does he find? None other than Guy Gardner! Wait...Guy? Peace? Neutral?

Strippers and college boys on Swing Street Bebop and bad cops in Harlem. Tangled memory and tainted love as the night draws closer to dawn and blood reckoning.

Junkie poets and poetic drunks, hipster hoodlums and a stripper with a secret. Joel Breakstone is in way over his headÉ and the night is still young.

A cheating wife, a senseless murder, a rogue cop, a beatdown by a hillbilly hipster, and a dark, sultry beauty who suffers no fools. Joel Breakstone is in way over his head and the night is young.

For the first time ever, Batman’s Elseworlds tales are featured in a new graphic novel collection. 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: stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow. 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 off an 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!

Vertigo''s latest anthology series goes out with a BANG! Quite a few of them, in fact. The last issue of SFX gathers short stories inspired by the sound of gunfire, the popping of balloons, the kick of a drum and even the origin of the universe itself. It doesn''t get any bigger than that!

It''s New Year''s, 1950... the end of a tumultuous decade. Lamont Cranston, the man that the world and the underworld know all too well as The Shadow, has had enough. It''s time for the mysterious nemesis of crime to hang up his cloak, his slouch hat, and his twin .45s, and retire from public life. But despite this momentous decision, Margo Lane and the rest of The Shadow''s agents fear that mankind, teetering on the brink of nuclear Armageddon, may not be quite ready to be bereft of the dark avenger. Howard Chaykin, whose 1980s revival of The Shadow at DC Comics reinvigorated the character for comic lovers everywhere, returns to tell a mind-blowing tale of the Master of Men! Who know what evil lurks in the heart of men? Howard Chaykin knows!

Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the Harbinger Active Resistance Division ? the black budget, technologically augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder. With a reluctant leader calling the shots and a new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps on a brutal, globe-spanning cavalcade of missions against the Harbinger Foundation, Project Rising Spirit?s own rogue operators, and the conspiracy-smashing duo of Archer & Armstrong. Get ready for a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safe and heroes always die trying! Acclaimed writers Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart, and Peter Milligan join an all-star cast of artists ? including Emanuel Lupacchino, Howard Chaykin, Bart Sears, Lewis LaRosa, and more ? here for the explosive final act of Bloodshot?s smash-hit ongoing series, re-presented in its entirety for the first time ever in a prestige-sized hardcover format and packed with 20+ pages of rarely seen bonus materials and special features! Collecting BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #14-23, BLOODSHOT #24-25, BLOODSHOT #0, BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS: H.A.R.D. CORPS #0, and ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #18-19.

For 100 Dynamite issues, The Shadow has known what evil lurks in the hearts of men. To commemorate, Dynamite Entertainment brings together master storytellers to celebrate the purveyor of justice who proves that crime does not pay. Join MATT WAGNER, HOWARD CHAYKIN, and FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA as they pen, pencil, and ink stories so mesmerizing they don''t even need a girasol! Also joining us will be The Shadow alumni MICHAEL USLAN, CHRIS ROBERSON, and VICTOR GISCHLER, paired with top artists, to show the weed of crime bears only bitter fruit! This is ONE centenarian celebration you WON''T want to miss.

A murderer?s row of comic talents ? Peter Milligan (Hellblazer), Duane Swierczynski (Birds of Prey), B. Clay Moore (JSA: The Liberty Files), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg), Lewis LaRosa (Punisher MAX), Manuel Garcia (Black Widow), and many more ? come together for a collection of stories from throughout the bullet-riddled history of Valiant?s most brutal and relentless hero! Meet the man behind Bloodshot ? or is he? ? when one soldier?s untapped killer instinct takes over in ?The Glitch?! Then, Russian superpies don?t die easy as ?Sleepers? takes Bloodshot deep into the biting cold of a former Soviet state and face to face with an enemy eerily similar to himself. Plus: the origin of Bloodshot retold, Howard Chaykin?s ?Protocol?, and much more! Collecting BLOODSHOT #24, the oversized BLOODSHOT #25 anniversary extravaganza, and an exclusive Director?s Cut of BLOODSHOT #1 ? featuring a never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes look inside the script, art, and character designs of the blockbuster first issue that set Bloodshot in motion!

The doomsday clock tolls for mankind--and only one man can save both nuclear powers from Armageddon in the breathless final chapter of what may be the SHADOW''S final adventure. "With The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow, Chaykin returns to the character that made his career in grand style, displaying that underneath the icon, there is still just an artist who wants to tell an entertaining story. It''s an amazing time to be a Chaykin fan." - Newsarama

A murderer?s row of all-star talents is going all-in for an oversized, 48-page milestone anniversary blowout chronicling the classified history of Valiant?s most dangerous, most brutal, most relentless hero ? BLOODSHOT! Meet the man behind Bloodshot ? or is he? ? when one soldier?s untapped killer instinct takes over in a feature-sized lead tale of blood, guts, and heart by Peter Milligan and Lewis LaRosa! PLUS?an all-new story by comics master Howard Chaykin! The original BLOODSHOT launch team of Duane Swierczynski and Manuel Garc?a join forces again for an all-new adventure! AND?Duffy Boudreau and Al Barrionuevo take you on Bloodshot?s journey from the end of the line with H.A.R.D. Corps to the Colombian jungle where Unity found him! Along with many more bonus stories and artwork, a complete cover gallery, and more!