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Action and
adventure await aboard The Venture! Set in 1938, Kel Symons (I LOVE TROUBLE)
and Mathew Reynolds' (Marlow) new series THE MERCENARY SEA stars
ex-bootlegger Captain Jack Harper and his crew of expats, mercenaries, and
treasure hunters. They sail the South Seas at an uneasy time for the world,
right when Japan has invaded China and War in Europe looks unavoidable.
The
Venture’s crew is a unique group of characters all with checkered pasts.
“There's definitely some conflict—perhaps mostly between Jack and Wulf,
the venerable German sub captain who serves as his first officer,” said
Symons. “But they're more or less a tight extended family. They're not
pirates or ruffians—they're mercenaries, obviously out for a paycheck, but
they have a strong moral compass guiding them.”
Inspiration
for THE MERCENARY SEA came from various pop culture influences that Symons and
Reynolds felt passionately about. “One of our guideposts for THE MERCENARY
SEA was that we wanted to do a comic that was essentially like a lost
Howard Hawks movie. A lot of Hawks' films deal with desperate men in
far-flung places, away from any support or help, where they're forced to rely
on themselves or fail: Only Angels Have Wings, The Thing from
Another World, Rio Bravo, To Have and Have Not,” said
Symons. “Howard Hawks was our spirit animal on this one.”
Battling
pirates, headhunters, spies, and soldiers, the crew is always one step away
from the greatest score of their lives. But it might not be that way for
long...
THE
MERCENARY SEA #1 is the first in a new ongoing action/adventure series which
will be available in stores on February 12, 2014 for $2.99. Pre-orders can be
placed using Diamond Code DEC130492.
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