Angeltown: The Nate Hollis Investigations

by Gary Phillips, Shawn Martinbrough, Michael Stribling

Los Angeles is the birthplace of noir -- because of the brighter the sunshine, the deeper the shadows, and the more deadly the mischief that goes on in the The Nate Hollis Investigations reprints the original Vertigo mini-series in glorious black & white -- the critically praised sequential mystery featuring the cool, tough private eye's frenzied search in the shadows for a pro hoopster wanted for murder in "Baller." Additionally, Gary Phillips (Operator 5), has penned two, original, illustrated prose short stories for this "Hollywood Killer," wherein superhero pretenders prowling Hollywood Boulevard for tips are getting bumped off, and "King Cow," about cattle, lowriders, and babes with nazi tattoos.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

176 pages, Hardcover

First published March 8, 2011

About the author

GARY PHILLIPS has been a community activist, labor organizer and delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including South Central Noir and the Anthony award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994 was named in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer/co-producer on FX’s Snowfall (streaming on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. Recent novels include One-Shot Harry and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. He lives with his family in the wilds of Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Laid black unintentionally(?) Blax-ploitation whodunit, in the worlds of basketball, private investigators, the district attorney's office, local media and a crime syndicate. Quite good. 6 out of 12

[Cody Prior · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is the worst peice of crap i have ever read in my life. If there was a rating that was Deadpool 2 back in time and stop this thing from exsisting I would go to Wendy's.

[Brent · Rating 4 out of 5]

read, mostly: I finally read the five-part GN in the original Vertigo comics. I'm a fan of artis Shaun Martinborough, and we could use more of this finely-crafted (you should pardon the expression) Noir storytelling.
Recommended.