One Last Mission Goes Horribly Wrong in New Spy Series Old Dog
The upcoming Image Comics series Old Dog combines action, thrills, and spies in an ongoing adventure. Creator Declan Shalvey (Moon Knight, Thunderbolts, X-Men Unlimited) will be writing and drawing the series with letters by Eisner-nominated letterer Clayton Cowles (Batman, Star Wars, Eternals). This will be Shalvey's third crime-related title for Image.
Shalvey began as a comic book artist with the title Hero Killers, which won an Eagle Award in 2006 for «Favourite Black and White British Comicbook.» He has an assortment of art credits from both Marvel and DC Comics, including Batman and Deadpool. At Image Comics, he worked on the art for the science-fiction series Injection. In terms of writing, for Image he's written crime comics set in his home country of Ireland such as Savage Town and Bog Bodies. Recently, he contributed a cover to the upcoming vampire series from Image, Blood-Stained Teeth.
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The Image Comics press release about Old Dog compares the book to the spy series Sleeper by Ed Brubaker (Captain America) and Sean Phillips (Hellblazer) as well as the television show The Americans in the style ofJason Bourne. The protagonist of Old Dog, Jack Lynch, has one last mission to do before he retires from the CIA. Unfortunately, like most people a week away from retirement, things go horribly wrong. Then, he awakens years later a changed person in a very different world with only a shadowy group's offer giving him another chance at adventure, which will involve changing his ways with a new partner. So far, only the main cover for the book by Shalvey has been revealed.
Old Dog takes the unique approach of focusing on an old spy at seemingly
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