Exclusive DC Preview: The Ruff & Reddy Show #1

DC has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive preview of The Ruff & Reddy Show #1, due in stores next Wednesday from writer Howard Chaykin and artist Mac Rey.

The latest of DC's Hanna-Barbera reinventions, The Ruff & Reddy Show is a genre-savvy send-up of entertainment culture, child stardom, and the reboot fever that has taken over Hollywood.

Chaykin knows a bit about Hollywood; a veteran comics writer, many of his projects have been considered for film and TV treatments over the years, with the most recent being American Flagg!, which was recently optioned for television.

Chaykin has also made recent headlines with his Image Comics series The Divided States of Hysteria, which seems to have the uncanny ability to offend...everyone.

Chaykin's own politics are left of center, and much of the satire in Divided States of Hysteria is aimed at the normalization of formerly-fringe elements on the American right. Still, it has managed to attract a number of left-wing detractors for its graphic depiction of crimes and discrimination against minority groups. In an odd twist, some conservative critics have responded by standing up for the book in the name of free speech.

It is unlikely Chaykin will bring that kind of politics to bear in Ruff & Reddy -- but not impossible, as DC's recent The Flintstones series from Mark Russell and Steve Pugh taught.

You can check out the preview pages in the attached gallery and the official solicitation text below.

In the Golden Age of television, Ruff and Reddy were on top of the entertainment world…until the world turned, and they were forgotten. Now, Ruff is a washed-up television actor. Reddy is a clerk in an upscale grocery store. Can a hungry young agent convince the two one-time partners to make a comeback—and convince the world that it wants to see the famously infamous dog-and-cat comedy team back in the spotlight? Don't miss it if you can!