Oktane

Oktane #1-4

by Gerard Jones, Gene Ha (Illustrator), Fabian Nicieza (Introduction)

The red-hot artist who brought you Cyclops and Phoenix and the writer who brought you Magneto and the Magnetic Men now bring you -- the hero who offended everybody! He's Oktane, nine friggin' feet of muscle, bad taste, and auto parts, and he's rockin' his way through an America gone stupid! The cult-fave, four-issue series of creator-owned chaos that took shots at white Americans, black Americans, Native Americans, naive Americans, and even America's most sacred institution -- Las Vegas! -- is now collected into one highly flammable trade paperback!

Genres: Comics

117 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Gerard Jones is an award-winning American author and comic book writer. From 1987 to 2001, Jones wrote many comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Media, Malibu Comics and other publishers; including Green Lantern, Justice League, Prime, Ultraforce, El Diablo, Wonder Man, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, and Batman.

Jones is author of the Eisner Award-winning Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (2004); Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (2002), and Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (1993). Jones is co-author with Will Jacobs of The Beaver Papers (1983), The Comic Book Heroes (1985, 1996), and the comic book The Trouble with Girls (1987-1993). From 1983 to 1988, Jacobs and Jones were contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He and Jacobs began writing humorous fiction again in 2008 with the online series My Pal Splendid Man and Million Dollar Ideas