*"My favorite sequence in Star Wars is the assault on the Death Star," says Howard Chaykin, "with its references to all those terrific air war pictures of the late '40s to the mid-'50s." Chaykin pioneered the graphic novel form with EMPIRE and THE STARS OF MY DESTINATION, deconstructed a number of mainstream characters in the '80s (most notably THE SHADOW and BLACKHAWK), created AMERICAN FLAGG! and recently developed MIDNIGHT MEN for Epic. *Source: back of card