From the award-winning creator of Three Fingers, comes an all-new, pop culture adventure/mystery. The King is an offbeat tale of one very enigmatic Elvis impersonator who’s taking the Vegas strip, and the world, by storm. Shrouded in mystery with the shining gold helmet that covers his face, The King’s performances are so mesmerizing that fans are starting to believe he really is Elvis Presley. Through investigative reporting and a series of thought-provoking interviews, a former tabloid journalist makes it his personal mission to find out The King’s true identity. But in his race to debunk The King's latest comeback, he discovers much more than he bargained for. -- solicitation, topshelfcomix.com

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Down-at-the-heels journalist Paul Erfurt is in Vegas again to jump-start a moribund career, unexpectedly on assignment from Time. Six months back, a portly guy opened at the Trident casino and began packing them in. He looks, sounds, moves like . . . Elvis. Not young Elvis, not black-leather comeback Elvis, but Elvis just before that day in August--white, rhinestone-studded jumpsuit and cape; humungous belt; silk scarves; and all. Of course, there's also the helmet covering his face down to his shades, and the fact that he calls himself, as the Second Memphis Mafia does, too, only "the King." And he'll talk only to Erfurt, which is why Time hired the former tabloid hotshot. Who or what is he, really? The interviews and, once Erfurt brings in his erstwhile legman, Dave, the investigating commence, and a very fine feat of Presleyana, indeed, gets under way. Koslowski marries a cartoon-noir mise-en-scene and superb Columbo/Rockford Files dialogue to produce a terrific, not-all-that-satiric (at least, of Elvis), novelistic graphic novel. -- Ray Olson, BookList, American Library Association