AMERICAN FLAGG!

AMERICAN FLAGG!
   US COMIC-book series (1983-9, 63 issues), published by First Comics, created by writer/ artist Howard V.CHAYKIN. Generally considered one of the best sf COMICS of the 1980s, AF is set in a media-saturated USA reduced to Third-World status, and stars Reuben Flagg, drafted into the Plexus Rangers in Chicago in the 2030s (Plexus being a Mars-based mega-cartel planning to sell off the USA piece by piece). AF is sophisticated fun, featuring cynically humorous writing and male and female characters with large sexual appetites. Except for 27, written by Alan MOORE, Chaykin wrote the first 30 issues and drew all but two of the first 26. The post-Chaykin issues of AK were not well received, and First Comics took the unprecedented step of making 46 an apology for these. Chaykin returned with 47 and continued to 50, the end of the first series. In 1988 a second series, now called Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!, sent Flagg to the USSR; it had 12 issues, with Chaykin editing, writing (with John Moore) and providing art direction. There was also a one-off American Flagg Special in 1986. The first 9 issues of AK have been collected as First Comics Graphic Novels 3, 12 and 20.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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