If you’re a fan of murder, mystery, and Golden Age TV shows, then you’re going to want to check out the new Image Comics series “Satellite Sam” coming to us next year from writer Matt Fraction and artist Howard Chaykin.
Matt Fraction grew up being a long time fan of writer/artist Howard Chaykin and the duo had their first opportunity to work together back in 2009 when they did work on the Punisher War Journal comic book series from Marvel Comics.
Satellite Sam is about the TV star who created and stars in the hit TV show and is found dead one day with a box of photographs of every woman he has ever slept with open for his son to find. The series explores how his son begins to learn who his father really was when he wasn’t on the small screen and makes it his job to find out who murdered his father.
Fraction goes on to explain,
“This is much more an amateur investigation. The police see things as fairly open and shut. Plus when you’re investigating the death of a beloved children’s TV star there’s A Lot of hushing up. Nobody wants the truth out. Once Sam’s son finds the box of photographs, his investigation becomes kind of a personal quest. Sex subverts booze in his world and everything goes upside-down. He wants to find out who killed his father and why. This is a son having to figure out who his father was by traveling through all his dark places.”
Fraction goes on to further describe the series as this:
“We’ve got sex, death, ray guns, alcoholism, murder, and television. And our tone can go everywhere from funny to profoundly creepy, just like a Howard Chaykin comic.”
Matt Fraction, Howard Chaykin, and Image Comics will bring us “Satellite Sam” in 2013 as a new ongoing series.
[via CBR]