Suburban Nightmares: Childhood Secrets: Collected Stories

By Michael Cherkas and Larry Hancock

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561631663
• ISBN13: 9781561631667
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: NBM Publishing
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Great Follow Up

Suburban Nightmares is a collection of the final stories of the comic by the same name. As most of Hancock and Cherkas's work most of the stories attempt to delve beneath the happy plastic veneer of American life. The setting they choose is the 1950s, where plastic happiness was (on TV at least) at its zenith. There are a variety of artistic styles used here, but Cherkas usually sticks with his distinctive blocky style. Though for some of the more sinister stories he uses a darker charcoal effect. There are three tales within this volume: The Foster Child: A boy is convinced that his parents have been replaced by aliens, and perhaps not without reason. Things then begin to spiral out of control. Mr. Ford: A boy is obsessed with the strange man who lives across the street. Strange vans are parked outside of his house, and no one seems to see the man except the boy. Secrets: A father is obsessed that a child's television program, Captain Crimson, is actually a front for disseminating Communist propaganda. The police don't take him seriously. But then his son turns up missing, and a strange chain of events unfolds. This book is well done, with solid story telling and artistic foundations. It is highly recommended.