INCOGNITO

LAST YEAR’S BREAKOUT HIT FINALLY RETURNS! By the award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. One of the biggest Hollywood options of the year, nominated for THREE Eisner Awards, INCOGNITO is finally back for more! It’s apocalyptic pulp noir at its finest! It’s been over a year since Zack Overkill came out of Witness Protection to build a new life. But working for the government isn’t that different from being controlled by them, and his new secret identity is becoming more trouble than it’s worth! So what will Zack do when tasked with a mission that sends him on a hunt into darkest corners of the super-criminal underworld where he was raised? Also returning with Incognito are the exclusive Pulp magazine essays by Jess Nevins, Professor of pulp history, only available in the single issues of Incognito.

It’s back! Zack Overkill and the book Incognito are back and in business, doing bad guy things for the good guys! It’s been a while since the previous run of Incognito; did it get back into the swing of things quickly? Or did it kill all hope of being good? Only one way to find out!

I love this series. It’s such a fresh take on villains and heroes in comics. Telling the story from a reformed villains perspective, and not skimping on the fact he’s still a big douchebag who doesn’t like anyone or anything, and only joined up with the good guys because it was in his best interest (read: no jail time, gets to beat up people).

Brubaker is a given in crime comics, and with his run on Captain America, he’s solidified himself as not only a crime writer, but a superhero writer as well. The world is simultaneously lush and unyielding; beautiful and harsh. Not many people in the top tier of Marvel can do it, and the only person I can think off the top of my head that CAN do it is Bendis. But I don’t even think Bendis could do it quite like this.

And speaking of beautiful and unyielding, Sean Philips’ art is absolutely stunning. Brubaker and he are a natural