And as for his chops? Chaykin's back with his trademark: a sleek graphic-design savvy solidly welded to classic old school comics storytelling. Sound familiar? It's too early in the series to determine exactly how it's going to play out, but it appears as though a central theme will be the moral hazard engendered by an over reliance on robots. What we find is an amoral world driven by selfishness and the profit motive, where secret operatives hidden from the world at large carry out hidden agendas for the powerful. In City of Tomorrow Chaykin is back doing what he does best, namely a science fiction saga set in a recognizably near future in which he gets to reflect on the current trends of today. And now we have his latest, The City of Tomorrow #1, the first issue of another six-issue series. Starting out of the gate with 2004's hardcover original graphic novel, Mighty Love - described by Chaykin as The Shop Around the Corner in spandex - he followed up in short order with his brutally satiric revisionist update of The Challengers of the Unknown, a six-issue mini-series, presumably soon to collected in a TPB. When Howard Chaykin stages a comeback, he stages a comeback! After a decade of lackadaisical and dispirited meandering at the edges of comics, he is now back at center stage and busy - make that very busy - producing some of the best work of his long and storied career (now well into its fourth decade).
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