Cholly & Flytrap: Center City

by Arthur Suydam

Classic film noir action-adventure lovingly composed and hand-painted by Marvel Comics superstar Arthur Suydam! In this wacked-out world, Center City remains the belly-button lint of surviving society, a final human outpost oozing crime and racial tension between man and machine. Against this backdrop, comicdom's most unique anti-heroes, Cholly and Flytrap, find themselves knee-deep in a mucky feud between the city's two power the Siamese-twin Hobbs Brothers and paranoid paraplegic millionaire Ameil Luvitz. When sumo-master Flytrap is mistakenly shanghaied and forced into slavery in a secret fight world, his partner Cholly's odyssey to rescue him from certain doom begins.

156 pages, Hardcover

First published May 27, 2009

Reviews

[Chris Lynch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Before Alan Moore, before Frank Miller, there was Arthur Suydam, pushing the boundaries of the comic medium in Heavy Metal and Epic Illustrated magazines in the late 70's/ early 80's. Cholly & Flytrap: Center City is a darkly humourous and somewhat surreal punk sci-fi western/gangster tale set in a dystopian future or parallel Earth. "It doesn't get more noir than this".

I think it's a pity that Radical didn't also include the original handful of one-of skits involving our dynamic duo (e.g. 'A Little Love A Little Hate' 'The Rites Of Spring' etc) in this volume, perhaps as an appendix, as I enjoyed them even more than the serialised story of Center City, and they wouldn't provide enough pages to make a separate volume by themselves.

Apparently, Suydam has plans to continue the adventures of Cholly and Flytrap, so here's hoping that they will make an appearance in a future volume.