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| American Flagg! Volume 1 Signed & Numbered Edition (American Flagg!) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Howard Chaykin, James Sherman, Pat Broderick, Rick Burchett
Publisher: Image Comics
Category: Book
Buy New: $158.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1018262
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 440
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7 x 1.3
ISBN: 1582409846
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781582409849
ASIN: 1582409846
Publication Date: August 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 still a good read November 22, 2008
It's good. It was written in 1983 so some things don't hold up that well, like the history of the world. There are things I can see happening still. Like the main character was replaced on his own show with a digital copy of himself. Each issue builds on the last one to tell a granter story. I am looking forward to vol 2 (their should be around five total)
Even thought the art is 20+ years old, it still looks better than some current comics.
Hey people are still reading Watchmen and it is 20+ yeas old as well.
It's an OK quality book. It has the cloth/glue binding. It reprints 14 issues plus some extra stuff. The S/N edition has a bound signed page that's clip art from issue one cover.
The Signed and Number edition is limited to 750 copies.
How much would you pay? As Amazon had the Signed and Number edition for 44 dollars, I bought it thinking I would never get it. You see I ordered it on the day it was at my local comic shop. It took them awhile but they did mail me my copy and it was for the low price they had listed. So for $12.60 more it was worth the signature. The other reviewer is right it's just a squiggle. I don't think it would be worth the 70 dollar price tag (with discount) for a squiggle that could be anybody.
If you need and want the Signed and Number edition Ebay has a few for around 100 and DynamicForces (dot) com has them for $70. Or just buy the regular edition for $32 (on Amazon), its well worth it and you save 40 dollars.
 Thieves? I say "YES." September 7, 2008
So, Amazon never sent me this book. Ever. Sure, I did get a tracking number all manner of information indicating that that product would be in my hands in a handful of days. But the product never arrived. Now, yes I can't complain because I did get a full refund on the product. Nothing gained, nothing lost.
But I find it noteworthy that when I first purchased the product, as a pre-order many moons ago I only paid $39.99 on the product. Not soon before the product was released, but before it was 'sold out,' they began charging $69.99 for the thing. So honestly, something tells me that it really wasn't 'lost.' Somebody screwed up, charged me and others too little on the book and never alleviated the error. And rather than being forthright about it? They just came up with a wonderful fabrication. This is not the first time Amazon has "lost" products that were then mysteriously raised in price; they've done it a great many times especially with Graphic Novels and Hard Cover Edition Graphic Novels.
The book itself? I did get it eventually from a different merchant, a different site and it is great. I'd actually owned a good number of the original American Flagg! floppy comics from First Comics back in the 80's and it was great then. The presentation and the restoration on the art and the colors is great. Though I wish they'd included a bit more material; though I anxiously await the next volume in this collection.
Great series, so-so reissue August 18, 2008
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A few years back I wrote an Amazon review raving about American Flagg! and what a groundbreaking work it is. Howard Chaykin's work predated more well known works such as Dark Knight (Frank Miller) and Watchmen (Alan Moore) by a few years. It is as daring now as it was 25 years ago.
It was a swell review and I am still amazed how prescient Chaykin was in perfectly nailing a future of reality TV, media-soaked culture, the Net, video piracy, enhanced sports and over-the-top sexuality. America, your future is now. That review is gone, I guess, because it took years for this work to actually get produced!
So...years after I wrote that in anticipation of the hardcover, it finally issues. My first reaction was - all this wait ...for this?
It is great to have the work collected,and the overall quality is good... but it deserves better, especially for the years it took to put together. If any series demands an Absolute, oversized edition, it is American Flagg! The artwork bristles and is packed with layers and details, even the lettering soars to new levels of excellence. This edition seems...small. It is reproduced the same size as the original art and is on matte white paper.
I have some previous collections (paperback) that are slightly oversized on glossy paper (the actual art is the same size). I think these are superior. Unfortunately, they didn't do the whole series like this.
Flagg! is better than this; Flagg! is bigger than this.
So...5 stars for the actual work and minus 1 for the format.
Oh, and for those debating whether the signed and numbered edition is worth it...well, after all those years of waiting, Chaykin must have been in a hurry to get these out because his usually abbreviated signature is even further reduced to a checkmark and a dot. Up to you to decide if that is worth the extra $.
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