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You Still Have Those Pastel Suits? Miami Vice Goes Digital

Published Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:00:56 -0600

Lion Forge Comics is kicking off its new digital comic series based on the hit 80's television phenomenon Miami Vice.

If you are too young to remember the series that featured Sonny Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs as a pair of live-by-their-own-rules detectives for the Metro-Dade Police Department… well then I'm envious of your youth… but then you missed out on a series of heavily synthesized action scenes mixed with vibrant colors and a lot of cocaine. Seriously it seemed like every seen had a least a brick of cocaine in the background.

And lets not forget the guest stars – Jimmy Smits, Ed O'Neill, Michael Madsen, Glen Frey, Bruce Willis, Phil Collins, Ron Pearlman, Benicio Del Toro and the list goes on and on.

It was a show that changed the culture of America and made wearing white suits with a pink t-shirt and deck shoes with no socks macho. Did anyone care about speedboats and South Beach before that?

Well, for those of you craving the nostalic days of 1984 to 1990… grab your iPad and download the first issue of the digital comic. It's being written by Jonathon London who has done a bunch of writing/producing/directing over the years including the Hulu series Singledom and When Ninjas Attack. The art is by Brazilian illustrator Geanes Holland.

Lion Forge of course are also the folks who put out the Airwolf and Knight Rider digital series last fall along with Saved By The Bell and Punky Brewster last month.