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Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood team for a new, noir examination of a classic DC character! Christopher Chance has made a living out of being a human target--a man hired to disguise himself as his client to invite would-be assassins to attempt his murder. He's had a remarkable career until his latest case protecting Lex Luthor when things go sideways. An assassination attempt Chance didn't see coming leaves him vulnerable and left trying to solve his own murder, as he has 12 days to discover just who in the DC Universe hated Luthor enough to want him dead by slow-acting poison. And the prime suspects happen to be...the Justice League International? Human Target is a hard-boiled, gritty story in the vein of classic detective noirs, told by bestselling and critically acclaimed creators Tom King and Greg Smallwood! This volume collects Human Target #1-6, the first half of the murder mystery.
Publication Year: 2022
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The Human Target is terrific.
In this '60s noir mystery and multiple Eisner Award winner, Chris Chance is The Human Target. A master of disguise, he works as a body double for people who think they're assassination targets. It's a simple pitch: he takes the bullet, so you don't have to. One day, he takes a bullet for Lex Luthor. That's fine; that's what he does. But it isn't the bullet that gets ya. It's the slow-acting poison.
Now, Chris has twelve days to figure out who killed him and why. To find the answers, he's going to make some powerful enemies - and some delicious allies.
This is the good stuff. One can imagine Robert Mitchum playing Chance, had the former been alive during the prestige streaming era. The artwork, spare yet beautiful, sells the vibe the writer is going for, and the series has me so invested that I not only did I order the second book immediately after finishing the first, but I put this volume in the hands of the nearest son. I encouraged him to read it, then pass it along to the rest of my sons. I think they'll love it as much as I did.
And who knows? I might use this comic to get them to try a Robert Mitchum movie on for size. That'd be a jackpot.
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