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   Friday, December 19, 2003

SORRY, HOWARD

As a big-ol' 80's comic-book geek, I remember flipping through an issue of Howard Chaykin's now-out-of-print "American Flagg" series and being bored by its combo of hyper-cynicism, wild T & A, and rah-rah Americanism. These days, I find myself wishing this callow youth had read it. As Chaykin himself says:

"Twenty years ago I did a comic book about a twenty-first century America with endless reality shows based on public humiliation; a federal government secretly selling off pieces of the United States; and a citizenry so drugged out on media they colluded in their own betrayal. Don't say I didn't warn you."

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