NINJAK: Issue 1
For the first time, Ninjak’s past and future collide in the pages of an all-new ongoing series from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Rai, Mind MGMT) and superstar artists Clay Mann (X-Men: Legacy, Gambit) and Butch Guice (Captain America, Action Comics) Then: Meet inexperienced MI-6 recruit Colin King on his first mission in the field as he learns the basics of spycraft and counterintelligence, and develops a volatile relationship with his first handler. Now: Colin King is Ninjak, the world’s foremost intelligence operative, weapons expert, and master assassin. And he’s hunting the Shadow Seven – a secret cabal of shinobi masters with mysterious ties to his training and tragic past.
For the first time, Ninjak’s past and future collide in the pages of an all-new ongoing series from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (Rai, Mind MGMT) and superstar artists Clay Mann (X-Men: Legacy, Gambit) and Butch Guice (Captain America, Action Comics)
Then: Meet inexperienced MI-6 recruit Colin King on his first mission in the field as he learns the basics of spycraft and counterintelligence, and develops a volatile relationship with his first handler.
Now: Colin King is Ninjak, the world’s foremost intelligence operative, weapons expert, and master assassin. And he’s hunting the Shadow Seven – a secret cabal of shinobi masters with mysterious ties to his training and tragic past.
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MATT KINDT<br />
CLAY MANN<br />
BUTCH GUICE<br />
ULISES ARREOLA<br />
#1
<strong>NINJAK</strong> SPECIFICATIONS & INSIGHTS<br />
5-FUNCTION<br />
THROWING DISKS.<br />
Subject displays an<br />
uncommonly hard-shell<br />
exterior, even for an<br />
agent with his<br />
experience and<br />
training.<br />
POWDERED FLASH-BANG<br />
PROJECTILES.<br />
Pressed for information<br />
regarding his formative<br />
years, agent employs<br />
distraction and digression as<br />
conversational techniques.<br />
LETHAL/NON-LETHAL<br />
DISGUISED POISONS.<br />
His psych evaluation<br />
interactions are typical of a<br />
subject harboring an unusual<br />
or traumatic childhood.<br />
ADHESIVE OVERWATCH<br />
MINI-CAMERAS.<br />
Upon further analysis/hypnosis,<br />
subject reveals childhood<br />
trauma was regularly visited on<br />
him by a family caretaker.<br />
HIGH-TENSILE TITANIUM<br />
REINFORCED BELT.<br />
Trauma was delivered to the<br />
subject via corporal punishment.<br />
Often with the primary caretaker’s<br />
belt. Parents were absent and<br />
wherabouts unknown.<br />
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THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE<br />
“Yo, this comic be the truth.”<br />
This was one New York City<br />
reader’s comment after getting<br />
an early read of <strong>NINJAK</strong> #1.<br />
We’re not all sure what that<br />
means at Valiant HQ, but we’ve<br />
asked one of our resident young<br />
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it is a very good review. Right<br />
before making a strong push for<br />
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of Broad City into the office.<br />
It’s…unlikely to go their way.<br />
But today one thing is guaranteed<br />
to go everyone’s way,<br />
because <strong>NINJAK</strong> #1 has finally<br />
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the wait. As far as debuts go,<br />
this one had a lot of pressure<br />
on it (almost as much as<br />
The Interview) and high<br />
expectations. Matt Kindt,<br />
Clay Mann, and Butch Guice<br />
responded by meeting and<br />
exceeding those expectations<br />
with an awesome first issue.<br />
It’s going to be an exciting first<br />
arc as Ninjak’s story unveils a Ninjak #4 — Cover by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic<br />
new side of the Valiant Universe,<br />
with new missions that put his<br />
elite arsenal of abilities on full display. And we<br />
finally get a peek into the mysterious past that<br />
shaped a young Colin King into the superspy we<br />
know and love. There’s also going to be quite a<br />
few new characters to look out for in this series,<br />
starting with Roku, another deadly merc who<br />
might just be a tad better at killing than Ninjak.<br />
Just wait ‘til you read issue #4.<br />
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