Preview: Cyclops #1
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Posted by Frederik Hautain on Dec 21, 2010
Tags: archaia, cyclops, luc jacamon, matz
Archaia Entertainment tomorrow debuts Cyclops, a new series from Matz and Luc Jacamon, the team behind the Eisner Award-nominated The Killer. Check here for a preview of the first issue.
CYCLOPS #1 (OF 8)
Retail Price: $3.95 U.S.
Page Count: 32 pages
Format: saddle bound, 6.625” x 10.25”, full color
On-sale Date: December 22, 2010
(W) Matz
(A) Luc Jacamon
(Cover) Luc Jacamon
2054. Douglas Pistoia is desperately looking for work, but only a private military contracting firm, Multicorps Security, has offered him a job. Soon after he signs up, the UN decides to outsource its peacekeeping missions, and Multicorps wins the first bid, propelling Douglas into a war that is not his own—a highly sophisticated war broadcast worldwide by the soldiers themselves thanks to the micro-cameras in their helmets. They are called the Cyclops. Douglas plays the game, and slowly emerges as both a unit leader and a media celebrity, but how far will he go in exploring the boundaries between war and peacekeeping, news and entertainment? From the same creative team that brought you the Eisner Award-nominated crime noir THE KILLER comes this new look at war and the media in the near future…
Mature Readers (series contains Nudity, Graphic Violence and Adult Content)
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