Mighty Love - Hardcover

Chaykin, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563899302 ISBN 13: 9781563899300

Publisher: Dc Comics, 2004

Synopsis

Howard Chaykin. hc. FIRST EDITION.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

All of veteran cartoonist Chaykin's comics, from American Flagg! to Blackhawk, have been marked by crisp graphic inventiveness, a touch of sexual perversity, snappy dialogue, the look of 1940s film noir and a hero who looks a bit like the cartoonist himself. In a way, Chaykin is as reliable as Woody Allen. This work, then, is his Everyone Says I Love You: a slight but enjoyable, opposites-attract romance in the trappings of another genre-in this case, a superhero adventure. He's a defense lawyer who moonlights as a scum-bashing hero called the Iron Angel; she's a tough-as-nails cop who moonlights as a police-corruption-fighting heroine called Skylark. Readers don't need a Ph.D. to tell that the story's going to center on the romantic tension between these two characters, and Chaykin pushes the idea that their lives are exactly parallel a little too hard. Accept this work as a genre exercise, though (of course the charismatic fund-raiser turns out to be a bad guy; of course the heroes squabble while staring straight into one another's eyes), and its charms become much more apparent. Chaykin's still a remarkable, quirky artist, fascinated by patterns in fabric and in buildings, detailing carefully rendered facial expressions with sharp, zigzagging lines. And his heroes have the kind of William Powell and Myrna Loy chemistry that demands a sequel.
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From Booklist

Writer-artist Chaykin was one of the biggest names in 1980s comics, largely because of his irreverent sf title, American Flagg. Since then, he has concentrated more on scripting comics, as in his recent American Century series, and TV. He returns to the drawing board for a graphic novel that mixes The Shop around the Corner with Law and Order, spandex, and secret identities. By day, Lincoln Reinhart is a wealthy liberal attorney who defends criminal lowlifes, and Delaney Pope is a straight-arrow detective in a corrupt police department. After hours they don spandex as the Iron Angel and Skylark and pursue the justice they're unable to extract from the legal system. Although bitter adversaries in their day jobs, they are romantically attracted by one another's costumed personas. The plot here is unnecessarily convoluted, and Chaykin's lighthearted approach doesn't dig into the potentially interesting issue of a lawyer and a cop resorting to vigilantism. The main appeal, besides the smart-ass dialogue, lies in Chaykin's distinctive artwork, which shows that his drawing skills remain formidable. Gordon Flagg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dc Comics
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1563899302
• ISBN 13: 9781563899300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96