{"id":41367,"date":"2026-03-23T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41367"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:02:50","slug":"howard-chaykins-american-flagg-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41367","title":{"rendered":"Howard Chaykin&#8217;s American Flagg Omnibus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4t3bRy3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z032326amerflagg_omni.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Man, I can remember the excitement when Howard Chaykin&#8217;s American Flagg comic series made its premiere.\u00a0 Now, Chaykin&#8217;s run is getting the treatment it deserves and fans want.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the scoop&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>A landmark of 1980s comics, American Flagg! is Howard Chaykin\u2019s groundbreaking sci-fi classic about media manipulation, corporate fascism, and one reluctant hero fighting back.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From its 1983 debut, <em>American Flagg!<\/em> was a breakout success, emerging from a new generation of small publishers, imprints now lost to history. Award-winning, narratively and graphically audacious, and ridiculously influential, its impact on comic book storytelling is still being felt today, in a story comically \u2013 and sometimes frighteningly \u2013 prescient about the world in which we live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It got some things wrong, but man, it got a lot more right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This fully remastered 1,064-page collection includes <strong>Howard Chaykin\u2019s<\/strong> run on the series\u2019 first 30 issues \u2013 more than half of which have never before been collected &#8211; plus the <em>American Flagg! Special<\/em>, all the <em>Flagg!<\/em> shorts from the years since, and a host of extras, in addition to an all-new 26-page story created for this volume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Collects <em>American Flagg! Vol. 1 Issues 1-30, American Flagg! Special<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4t3bRy3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-orders<\/a> are available now for an October 27, 2026 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I can remember the excitement when Howard Chaykin&#8217;s American Flagg comic series made its premiere.\u00a0 Now, Chaykin&#8217;s run is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41368,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367\/revisions\/41368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}