Codeflesh: The Definitive Edition - Hardcover

Casey, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607060779 ISBN 13: 9781607060772

Publisher: Image Comics, 2009

Synopsis

• A cult hit is back, the way it was always meant to be seen, from co-creators Joe Casey(GODLAND) and Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead).
• Cameron Daltrey is an L.A. bail bondsman. His specialty is criminals of the superhuman persuasion, the type who rarely make their court dates. Thus, Cameron leads an interesting double life: Bail bondsman by day, masked bounty hunter by night.
• Packed with extra features, this full-color collection also includes an all-new Codeflesh story by Casey and Adlard ― the first original story in seven years!

About this title

From Booklist

Superficially, Codeflesh is just another masked-crime-fighter saga. Bail bondsman Cameron Daltry's clients are either big as trucks or "gifted," so that when they skip their court dates, they require special attention (e.g., a scruffy teenager with telekinetic capability has to be knocked out and kept out to be taken in). Daltry retrieves his own no-shows but, having been court-ordered not to, dons a full-head mask with a bar code on the face for the nonce. Unfortunately, his bondsman days and bounty-hunter nights tick off his exotic-dancer girlfriend. The book bounces between pounding sessions with the baddies and fence mending with her. The whole thing resembles a string of TV cop-show episodes, but few TV shows' visuals are anywhere near as impressive as Adlard's artwork. Adlard has the high-contrast, deep-focus look of the best films noir down pat, now and then effectively steering the occasional panel, especially in fight scenes, toward almost "unreadable" abstraction. He draws the way Elmore Leonard and James Ellroy scenarios ought to look. Ray Olson
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Edition details

• Publisher: Image Comics
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607060779
• ISBN 13: 9781607060772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128