1.14.2012

Spy Comics

The best spy literature I am reading right now is in the comics medium.

  Nathan Edmondson came out of the gate strong with Who Is Jake Ellis?:
Jon Moore is the most sought after spy-for-hire in Europe's criminal world. This is because of Jake Ellis, a psychic man who is invisible to everyone except Moore. When a deal goes bad, the only one who can protect Moore from Europe's most dangerous criminals is Jake Ellis. No one but Moore can see Jake Ellis. But Jake Ellis can see everything.



Now he has an ongoing series called The Activity about a real life special unit of the military:


And soon Edmondson will have another espionage comic called Dancer:


Also, I am currently reading Pigs which is about a sleeper cell of KGB agents kids who have come to America to complete the mission their parents started:
When the second generation of a loyal KGB sleeper cell is given the signal, they must finish the mission that they have been raised their entire lives to complete: overthrow The United States of America, no matter what it takes. Writers Ben McCool (CHOKER, MEMOIR) and Nate Cosby (Jim Henson’s Storyteller) are the creative minds behind this new ongoing series from Image Comics, a character-driven modern espionage thriller entitled PIGS.

You can also never go wrong with heading back to Greg Rucka's Queen & Country which is heavily isnpired by the British TV series The Sandbaggers:





 And finally, I came across Brian Michael Bendis' book Fire:
The story, a spy thriller, is centered on a young Jewish-American man named Benjamin "Ben" Furst, who is initially introduced as a college student studying political science. After passing several tests, including a fake mugging, he is recruited by a beautiful young woman named D. D. into the Central Intelligence Agency and told that he is going to be the first agent of Project Fire (hence the title of the comic), an experiment to test whether training agents out of ordinary citizens can be successful.

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