When you're over seven feet of walking, talking stone, you're bound to draw the media spotlight, especially when you live in Tinseltown. Concrete's celebrity status is sometimes a pain in the buttress … but it does bring the occasional paycheck gig. When the producer of a low-budget science-fiction film approaches Concrete to use his prodigious strength to help save money on the film's FX budget, the siren call of Hollywood draws Concrete like a moth to a flame … a seven-thousand-dollar-a-week flame, that is.

• Concrete is a multiple Eisner and Harvey Award winner.

• The return of Paul Chadwick's award-winning Concrete has ushered in a resurgence of interest in the acclaimed series that Harlan Ellison called "probably the best comic being published today by anyone, anywhere."

• This value-priced volume collects the Eisner Award-winning series Fragile Creature, along with bonus short stories "Little Pushes," "Fire at Twilight," "Byrdland's Secret," "The Artistic Impulse," "Burning Brightly, Brightly," "Next Best," and "The Gray Embrace."