Michael Cherkas

I became aware of the Ukrainian famine during college in the 1980s when Robert Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow was a text in one of my classes. We were delving into whether this man-made disaster was due to inept Soviet administration or a deliberate genocidal campaign. It's a question that I see is still being debated to this day, but I side with the Ukrainians and believe that Stalin and his fellow Soviets were out to kill as many Ukrainians as possible to secure Ukrainian land and resources show more for Russia, and Putin's current war is just another expression of the long-held Russian desire to possess Ukraine at any cost.

This moving dramatization gives an immediacy to the horror and suffering by following a single family through the ordeal. show less

Once you get used to the 'Dick Tracy' style art of Michael Cherkas - which isn't hard at all - you can enjoy the story about a brave reporter whose had a UFO encounter trying to get the story out and investigate the phenomenon. Unfortunately, the FBI are more concerned with commies than aliens and come after him when they think he's an accomplice of mysterious Mister Kalashnikov in the apartment next door. In mood, complex plot and shadowy art, this is really a Warner Brothers noir thriller show more with UFO's thrown in. Everyone's a double-crosser, especially the blonde. Well worth a few hours of your time. show less

The Silent Invasion, Book 1: Red Shadows which comes straight from the 80's B&W comics scene that gave us Cerebus and T.M.N.T. It is a very interesting book because it combines the ambience of Film Noir, Mistery, 50's Sci-Fi with a very good pace and cativating characters. The art is heavily influenced by the Atomic Art of Yves Chaland.
2 thumbs up!!!

I loved Silent Invasion. So much that I thought I'd easily love this book, too. And, I really started getting into The Science Experiment... and then we switched to Suburban Nightmares. Huh? TSE was great. SN were... okay. It just left me feeling flat. Perhaps if I had read them over time, individually, as opposed to during the same road trip I would have been able to enjoy each story more. But, that was not the case, and thus it got a low rating from me.