This November,
acclaimed comic writer/novelist Max Allan Collins' smash hit QUARRY series makes
the leap to comics for the first time ever – from Titan Comics and Hard Case
Crime - in an all-new series titled Quarry’s War.
Titan Comics’
new Quarry series marks the first time that the Quarry franchise explores the
comic book medium. The comic follows the lead character from the critically
acclaimed Cinemax TV show, which The Washington Post said had “a heart-breaking
sense of soul.”
Penned by
Collins, whose other work includes Batman, Dick Tracy, Ms. Tree, and the
groundbreaking graphic novel Road to Perdition, which inspired the Academy
Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, Quarry's War is
illustrated by artist Szymon Kudranski (Batman: Streets of Gotham, Spider-Man, Spawn).
In Quarry’s War,
former U.S. Marine sniper Quarry has recently returned from the horrors of the
Vietnam War, and has found a new vocation as a professional assassin. But when
his latest contract turns out to be an old acquaintance from his military days,
the fresh-faced hit-man finds himself battling against his own conscience as
secrets from the past begin to reveal themselves.
"I'm very
excited to bring my Quarry character into the world of comics -- it's the first
time I've transferred one of my mystery series from prose to graphic novels,
though I've made the opposite trip with Road to Perdition,” said Quarry writer
Max Allan Collins. “I am particularly pleased to be able to explore Quarry's
Vietnam experiences -- often referred to in the novels, but never directly
depicted, and so well handled on the Cinemax TV series -- in this visual
medium. Szymon has really delivered on my concept of telling two
storylines -- home front and war zone -- in alternating pages, which I think
makes Quarry's first graphic novel appearance something special."
“Hard Case
Crime has been Quarry’s home for more than a decade,” said editor Charles
Ardai. “We were thrilled last year to see him star in his own Cinemax TV
series, and now we’re very excited to see him come to comics for the first
time, with a brand-new story written by his creator, Max Allan Collins. The
author of Road to Perdition, Dick Tracy and Ms. Tree writing the first comic
ever about one of his most famous characters? That’s a big deal.”
Quarry’s War
Issue #1 comes with three amazing covers to collect including Alex Ronald (Assassin’s
Creed), Fay Dalton (Peepland) and Ricardo Drumond (The Atoll).
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