Angeltown

Angeltown

Infobox comic book title
title = Angeltown


caption = Cover to issue #1 of "Angeltown" (Jan 2005).
schedule = Monthly
format = Canceled
ongoing = y
publisher = Vertigo
date = January 2005-May 2005
issues = 5
main_char_team =
writers = Gary Phillips
artists = Shawn Martinbrough
pencillers =
inkers =
letterers =
colorists =
editors = Karen Berger
creative_team_month =
creative_team_year =
creators = Gary Phillips
Shawn Martinbrough
subcat=Vertigo
sort=PAGENAME

"Angel Town" is a 5-issue limited series created in 2005 by writer Gary Phillips and artist Shawn Martinbrough, and published by Vertigo Comics, an imprint of DC Comics. The story is told in the blaxploitation idiom, with nods to the detective stories of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley.Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = Angeltown | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 25 | publisher = Dorling Kindersley | place = New York | year = 2008 | ISBN = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015]

Plot

Allison Dillon, the white wife of African-American basketball star Theophus Burnett, is discovered murdered in her home. After the acrimonious end of their marriage, Dillon had written a scabrous tell-all celebrity memoir, and Burnett is considered the primary suspect, but has disappeared. He is sought not only by the police but by private detective Nate Hollis. The more Hollis digs, the more dirt on Burnett he finds, including a sex tape featuring Burnett with Monica Orozco, Burnett's lawyer and an ex-lover of Hollis', and soft-core porn starlet and z-list actress "Toasty", the daughter of local crimelord Paul Teddy.

Hollis comes to believe that Burnett is innocent, but can't prove it without information from Burnett himself. Hollis eventually locates Burnett in a beach house in Malibu, where Paul Teddy's gangsters make an attempt on his life, which he survives. With the aid of his grandfather, "Clutch", Hollis deduces the identity of the real killer.

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