Atomic City Tales

Black Eye Productions/Kitchen Sink/Oni Press. All written and drawn by Jay Stephens.

1 Go Power! (Sin Comics 1-2, Atomic City Tales 1-3, Sputnik 1-2/Atomic City Special 1). [From Oni Press: Imagine a post-modern world where men can fly, the cartoonists who create them show up from time to time, and girls with extraordinary strength sell underarm deodorant and you'll have a pretty good idea of what things are like in Atomic City. Particularly what it's like for Atomic City's newest super-being, the rough-and-tumble Big Bang. With rockabilly good looks and an overabundance of good-time attitude, Big Bang is pretty fresh to the hero game and to what appears to be unlimited powers. Joining him for his bizarre adventures are the certifiably crazy Quirk, righteously indignant Atomic Girl, and the powerfully attractive Z-Girl. Together, they run afoul of the city's worst criminal gang, run by the devilish, decapitated Doc Phantom. And with all these newbies causing trouble on the streets, what will Atomic City's greatest hero, The Green Torpedo, have to say about it? It's a chaotic ride through the finest in underground cartooning.]
2 Doc Phantom (Volume 2, 1-4; 4 previously unpublished). [From Oni Press: Doc Phantom is the leader of Atomic City's superpowered criminal underworld, and he's throwing a party. All the groovy bad guys are going to be there - including Apeface, Black Rocket, an the complete Maniac Gang. So why would a hero like Big Bang get so bent out of shape that he wasn't invited? Well, for one, Doc Phantom has kidnapped Bang's personal cartoonist, Jay Stephens, to chronicle the event. Fists are going to fly and cocktails will be spilled when the town's hottest superhero crashes the shindig of the its meanest supervillain.]