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Electric Century

Year

2021

Language

ENGLISH

Rating

T+

Publication Information

Z2 Comics

Summary

Z2 Comics has teamed up with Mikey Way and Shaun Simon to bring you Electric Century - an original graphic novel and accompanying full-length album. Johnny Ashford, former sitcom star, drives drunk through a storefront and gets tossed in jail. His aspiring actress girlfriend bails him out and he begins seeing a hypnotherapist, who sends him to his "happy place": 1980's Atlantic City, where he relives his childhood on the boardwalk and the Electric Century casino, hardly noticing shadowy specters all around. His addiction shifts from alcohol to his hypnotic trips to the boardwalk. When his girlfriend winds up there, Johnny has to figure out how to save their lives and escape the Electric Century...

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