Written by Jan Lucanus and Jan Childress
Directed By Jan Lucanus
Cover by Chadwick Coleman
Pencils by Antonio Rojo
Inks by Rick Bonilla
Colors by Sivakami Mohan
Letters by Ian Sharman
Printed by Creative Impulse Entertainment
“The perfect marriage of commerce and violence accessible to any civilian” is the way that this series starts out, and keeps on going in one of the more violent and bloody comic books I have read lately. The basic idea is that in a world without individual justice for people that a new business model would start up that with enough money you could hire a mercenary company to get the justice you needed to close the book on bits of your life. Need a pedophile killed, they got that, need a greedy company executive killed along with his minions, yeah they got that too. All you have to do is raise enough money for the job, and then there you go, the targets life is not worth anything at all. If this was real life there wouldn’t be a banker left in existence, so good thing this is a comic book. The good part is that there is plenty of fodder for people to catch up on in this comic book series that now spans six issues, and can be found on Graphicly with a special free preview issue 0 to get the gist of the comic book series.
It is a very violent book; after all we are killing people in the book for hire, like any other mercenary. While the deeds are good, this is one of those times we need to question the ends and the means of what is happening in here. We all want justice, and have often found that justice is bought with the legal team that you can afford. It would be interesting if you could simply hire out a team legally to take care of problems that the courts have often overlooked or on some technicality let go a really rotten person to terrorist the community again. And that is what the book is all about, you hire, they kill, life goes on. It all depends on the price you can afford to pay. From an assassins viewpoint this is an awesome series, from a redemption and justice viewpoint it is over the top for violence and the premise that you can hire an assassin to take care of people or companies that the courts have overlooked or ignored. Again, good thing this isn’t real life.
Technically the book is excellent. Good lettering, coloring, inking, character design and development. It is very easy to read, and sucks you right on into the story line like a spy novel dealing with specific case files. From the morality viewpoint, maybe not so much, again good thing this is a comic book. Overall because of the moral ambiguity in the story lines, I am going to rate this 4 of 5, technically excellent, but morally questionable. This probably means that a lot of people will seriously like this comic book so it is worth checking out on Graphicly first, make sure you like it, then go purchase it at a comic book store or online. It is worth checking out.
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