The first creator-owned book by Ultimate Spider-Man cocreators Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, Brilliant tells the story of a handful of college-age geniuses who challenge each other to solve the mystery of superpowers. Can the best and brightest change science fiction into science fact? And if so, how will the world at large react? Brilliant is a thriller of the highest order. It is a story of how true power can either destroy or protect the strongest of friendships. It is the story of how the world will react when our true potential is finally unlocked. Collecting Brilliant #1-#5.
New York Times bestselling writer Brian Michael Bendis and creator of the bestselling Kabuki series David Mack team up to tell an incredible new espionage epic in COVER. Based on a true story, the intelligence community figures out that the traveling band of social misfits who make comic books are an exact match to the profiles of candidates recruited for intelligence and counterintelligence gathering. A well-known comics creator is recruited by the agency to live a double life as a spy. And convention season is upon us. Collects issues #1-#6 with a brand-new cover by David Mack!
Loosely based on events in the American intelligence community during the Reagan administration, Fire tells the unique and powerful story of a young man's journey from quiet college student to the complex world of international intelligence. From crime noir master Brian Michael Bendis comes this now-classic tale in an all-new edition! Imagine that you are a shy, quiet college student. Just an average guy trying to get through each day as best he can. Then your government contacts you. They want you to be part of an experiment in the art of human covert operations. Instead of creating an agent from someone within their own ranks, they want to create an agent from nobody, from scratch, from you! This definitive presentation of Eisner Award winner Brian Michael Bendis' first cinematic noir comic features re-mastered art and lettering, plus a newly revised script.
Written and illustrated by Bendis and colored by Matthew Wilson, Fortune and Glory invites readers to gaze in wonder at the dizzying varieties of stupidity displayed by studio executives, and to share in the enthralling mood swings and ego nosedives of a small-time comic book creator as he rides the emotional roller coaster of freelance film production. This comprehensive trade paperback edition includes the complete story from the original three-issue miniseries and features an introduction from comics and animation legend Paul Dini as well as a wealth of promotional art and interviews straight from Bendis's archives.
Fortune and Glory looks at the frequent futility of the Hollywood merry-go-round, as Brian Michael Bendis tells his own personal tale of the enthralling mood swings and ego nosedives of an indie comic book creator caught up in the maelstrom of the motion picture industry. Join the best-selling author of Superman and Action Comics as he retells the incredible true story of his travails through Hollywood. Collects the original three-issue miniseries, and features 24 pages of bonus material and an introduction by Paul Dini!
An enigmatic grifter returns to his old haunts to find his old flame practically running the city's underbelly. His oldest friend and ex-partner in crime is a police detective. The town itself seems to have turned on him. With everything going against him, how can Goldfish reclaim the only person whom he still cares about? DC presents a new edition of the classic crime tale from the pages of A.K.A. Goldfish: Ace, Joker, King, Queen and Jack, written and illustrated by Brian Michael Bendis!
After years away, con man David Gold returns to the city he once called home and finds nothing as it was. But the man known as "Goldfish" has come back for one reason, and one reason only: his son. This enigmatic grifter returns to his old haunts to find his old flame practically running the city's underbelly. His oldest friend and ex-partner in crime a police detective. The town itself seems to have turned on him. With everything going against him, how can Goldfish reclaim the only person that he still cares about? Written and illustrated by the legendary New York Times best-selling author Brian Michael Bendis, Jinxworld and Dark Horse release an all-new edition of one of his grittiest works ever!
When bounty hunter Jinx Alameda met con man David "Goldfish" Gold, she thought he was too good to be true. Which he was. With a mysterious past and even murkier motives, Goldfish and Jinx find that they're searching for the same thing-a huge cash treasure that could set them up for good. A tenuous partnership could lead them to the score of a lifetime-if they don't kill each other first. Collects Jinx Vol. 1 #1-7, Jinx Vol. 2 #1-5 and Jinx Special #1.
Brian Michael Bendis, the award-winning cocreator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and Powers, tells a modern noir tale of crime, greed, and double cross. A female bail agent, a low-level confidence man, and his loose-cannon sidekick form an unlikely alliance to track down the ultimate score-a hidden stash of life-altering, untraceable mob cash. For this hard-luck trio, however, the old saying "more money, more problems" will prove to be disturbingly prophetic. Collecting all of the original Jinx issues published by Caliber Press and Image Comics, this comprehensive trade paperback edition features an introduction by acclaimed comics creator David Mack and includes more than sixty pages of behind-the-scenes bonus material!
This 1999 Eisner Award winner is reformatted in this newest addition to the Jinxworld library! Cleveland. 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph over Al Capone and associates, set his sights on Cleveland. He went on a crusade that matched, and sometimes even surpassed, his past accomplishments. But dismembered body parts started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake Erie Sound. Headless torsos that left no clues to their identities or reasons for death. Ness and his colorful gang of the Unknowns chased this killer through the underbelly of Cleveland for years. As far as the public was concerned, he was never captured. But what really happened is even more shocking.
Cleveland. 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph over Al Capone and associates, set his sights on Cleveland. He went on a crusade that matched, and sometimes even surpassed, his past accomplishments. But dismembered body parts started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake Erie Sound. Headless torsos that left no clues to their identity or reason for death. Eliot Ness and his colorful gang of The Unknowns chased this killer through the underbelly of Cleveland for years. As far as the public was concerned, he was never captured. But what really happened is even more shocking. This 1999 Eisner Award Winner for Comic Book Excellence is re-designed in this latest edition to the Dark Horse/Jinxworld library!
