Dans un monde sans super-vilains, la mort d’un super-héros soulève de nombreuses questions. Ainsi démarre l’enquête du commissaire John Riley, déterrant les plus noirs secrets de la communauté des surhommes pour découvrir leurs mystérieuses origines.
C’est le point de départ de la maxi-série Protectors Inc. imaginée par le scénariste J. M. Straczynski et illustrée par Gordon Purcell & Mike Atiyeh. Le premier des douze numéros sera publié chez Image Comics en novembre sous le label Joe’s Comics (Ten Grand, Sidekick).
[quote]PROTECTORS, INC. #1
story J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
art GORDON PURCELL & MIKE ATIYEH
cover A GORDON PURCELL & MIKE ATIYEH
cover B WHILCE PORTACIO & MIKE ATIYEH
NOVEMBER 6
32 PAGES / FC / M
$2.99
Protectors, Inc.: Heroes in a world without super-powered bad guys. Heroes with corporate sponsors and far too polite rivalries and sporting franchises. Heroes without anything or anyone to fight…until one of them is murdered in ways that could only have been accomplished by someone with equal powers.
Solving the mystery falls to Lieutenant Detective John Riley, an ordinary man whose investigation takes him into a strange and dangerous world light years beyond his abilities to understand and very likely far beyond his capacity to survive. The trail leads to a fifty-year-old secret that could threaten the very existence of Protectors, Inc., an impossible love affair, and a serial killer whose work is not yet finished.[/quote]
ça dépend de la définition que tu donnes à « super-vilain » ! Et est-ce que le concept du « super-vilain » a besoin de celui du « super-héros » pour exister ?
[size=85](cool, j’ai déjà un premier sujet pour le bac. Pour les autres, j’irai chercher dans les posts de nemo !)[/size]
[quote]Protectors, Inc. #1
Story by J. Michael Straczynski
Art by Gordon Purcell
Colors by Michael Atiyeh
Letters by Troy Peteri
Cover by Gordon Purcell, Michael Atiyeh
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, November 6th, 2013
Protectors, Inc.: Heroes in a world without super-powered bad guys. Heroes with corporate sponsors and far too polite rivalries and sporting franchises. Heroes without anything or anyone to fight…until one of them is murdered in ways that could only have been accomplished by someone with equal powers. Solving the mystery falls to Lieutenant Detective John Riley, an ordinary man whose investigation takes him into a strange and dangerous world light years beyond his abilities to understand and very likely far beyond his capacity to survive. The trail leads to a fifty-year-old secret that could threaten the very existence of Protectors, Inc., an impossible love affair, and a serial killer whose work is not yet finished.[/quote]
[quote]Protectors, Inc. #2
Story by J. Michael Straczynski
Art by Gordon Purcell
Colors by Michael Atiyeh
Cover by Gordon Purcell, Michael Atiyeh
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price $2.99
Release Date Wed, December 11th, 2013
An unexplained local disappearance, a corpse that lands several hundred miles from the scene of the crime, and the very first death of one of the Protectors…what do these three seemingly unrelated incidents have in common? And why is Protectors, Inc. so determined to whitewash the possibility that the super-powered hero was murdered? Lieutenant Detective Riley may be the only one who really wants to discover the truth.[/quote]
[quote=« soyouz »]ça dépend de la définition que tu donnes à « super-vilain » ! Et est-ce que le concept du « super-vilain » a besoin de celui du « super-héros » pour exister ?
[size=85](cool, j’ai déjà un premier sujet pour le bac. Pour les autres, j’irai chercher dans les posts de nemo !)[/size][/quote]
Je dirais que non. On peut assimiler Fantômas a un super vilain, non?
[quote]Protectors, Inc. #3
Story by J. Michael Straczynski
Art by Gordon Purcell
Colors by Michael Atiyeh
Cover by Gordon Purcell, Michael Atiyeh
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, January 15th, 2014
Every Death must love and every Death must die; the cycle of world demands it. The one who captures our last breath must breathe his last before becoming inured to the pain of loss. This cycle is ending. But this Death… will not go easy.[/quote]
[quote]PROTECTORS INC. #4
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski.
Art by: Gordon Purcell, Andrew Pepoy.
Cover by: Gordon Purcell.
Description: Detective Riley’s investigation into the murder of the Huntsman brings him into the very heart of Protectors, Inc., where he meets the woman of his dreams-assuming she’s not actually a killer-and the other members of the Chicago Protectors. One of them killed the Huntsman…and may be after Riley next.
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: Feb. 19. [/quote]
[quote]PROTECTORS INC #5
Written by: J. Michael Straczynski.
Art by: Gordon Purcell, Andrew Pepoy.
Cover by: Gordon Purcell.
Description: In every good mystery, there’s a moment when the detective confronts the suspects to try and figure out which of them is the killer. But generally speaking, the suspects aren’t powerful enough to fly you five miles straight up, rip off your limbs, and drop you into the Atlantic. That’s the problem faced by Lieutenant Detective John Riley, when he finally comes face to face with the Protectors, one of whom may have murdered the Huntsman. Meanwhile, an autopsy on a woman presumed to have died in a boating accident reveals a grisly connection to the Protectors…
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: March 26. [/quote]
[quote]Protectors, Inc. #6
Story by J. Michael Straczysnki
Art by Gordon Purcell, Andrew Pepoy
Colors by Michael Atiyeh
Cover by Gordon Purcell
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, April 23rd, 2014
It began with two seemingly unconnected deaths: a young woman, washed up on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the Huntsman, whose death Protectors, Inc. insisted was an accident. But now the lines connecting those two events are becoming clear, and Lieutenant Detective John Riley finds himself on the edge of a conspiracy that may shatter everything the public believes about their heroes…assuming he can survive the investigation.[/quote]
[quote]PROTECTORS, INC. #7
STORY BY J. Michael Straczynski
ART BY Gordon Purcell
COLORS BY Mike Atiyeh
COVER BY Gordon Purcell, Mike Atiyeh, Renae Deliz, Ray Dillon
PUBLISHER Image Comics
COVER PRICE: $2.99
RELEASE DATE Wed, July 2nd, 2014
The Angel and Detective Riley have joined forces to determine who killed the Huntsman, and why. With each new discovery, the suspicion grows that it was one of the Protectors who did the job…and that there may be other, unsolved murders that could only have been committed by one of their own. In a world without super-powered bad guys, has someone finally crossed over to the other side? And if they have, how can they be stopped? And what secret is Protectors Inc. hiding about all this? Tune in for another thrilling adventure…[/quote]
[quote]Protectors, Inc. #8
Story by J. Michael Straczynski
Art by Gordon Purcell, Andrew Pepoy
Colors by Mike Atiyeh
Letters by Troy Peteri
Cover by Gordon Purcell, Michael Atiyeh
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, August 20th, 2014
After having mysteriously disappeared over a decade earlier, The Patriot has returned from his long absence. But what has prompted this sudden reappearance? Does he know something of value about the murders that have lately gripped Chicago in a fist of terror…or is he trying to hide something? Who do you trust in an organization where everyone wears a mask and very few tell the truth? Detective John Riley must decide whether or not to trust someone he once idolized, but who may now be a serial killer.[/quote]
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