Bestselling Cartoonist Matt Kindt and Acclaimed Colorist Sharlene Kindt to Publish SPY SUPERB :: Weblog :: Darkish Horse Comics

John Wick meets Wes Anderson in This All-New Thriller-Thriller a few Secret Group That Developed the Good Spy.

Who’s the right spy? That query could also be greatest answered by bestselling cartoonist Matt Kindt, who has been writing and illustrating espionage and action-fueled comics like BRZRKR (with Keanu Reeves), Apache Supply Service, BANG! Dept. H, Ether, Concern Case, MIND MGMT, Folklords, Revolver, 3 Story, Tremendous Spy, and Pistolwhip for the final 20 years. Subsequent January, Kindt and the acclaimed colorist Sharlene Kindt (Dept H) will launch SPY SUPERB their newest collaboration, an offbeat mystery-thriller a few secret group that has developed the right spy. And simply who’s that good spy? Somebody who doesn’t even understand they’re a spy.

In SPY SUPERB, a secret group identifies the final word asset: a person named Jay, who’s what they name a “helpful fool.” Jay is shipped on missions with out even realizing he’s on a mission. Till he picks up the flawed telephone with the flawed secret intel and now Russian hit-squads and elite assassins are after him. However Jay believes he was a sleeper agent—and actually is the “spy very good”. His full obliviousness and lack of survival expertise would be the solely factor that saves him on this globe-trotting espionage story …the place nothing is what it appears…but additionally…type of really is what it appears.

“In Spy Very good I needed to discover a personality, the concept of a really common one who is beneath the idea that he’s totally distinctive,” stated Kindt. “There’s a scientific time period for this–The Dunning-Kruger effect–a one who insists they possess information and expertise that they clearly don’t. What if an excellent spy was affected by this? Properly…they’d in fact be a…SPY SUPERB. It was really actually onerous for me to maintain this character alive previous challenge #1… there are hit males after him…an excellent murderer who kills solely with rock, paper, and scissors… and an actual tremendous spy working within the shadows of our “hero” who may very well be the actual spy very good. It feels actually nice to be drawing a brand new book–and I’m past joyful that Sharlene Kindt (Dept. H) is portray it. It’s positively essentially the most formidable collaboration we’ve ever had.”

The announcement of SPY SUPERB follows the information that three of Kindt’s acclaimed comics are at present in lively improvement beneath the Darkish Horse Leisure banner:

• Based mostly on the comedian sequence by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres, the characteristic movie adaptation of the fashionable spy thriller Bang! is ready to star Idris Elba (The Tougher They Fall, Concrete Cowboy, Luther) and be directed by David Leitch (Bullet Prepare, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2). The script shall be written by Kindt and Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Prepare, Concern Road Half 2: 1978). The movie shall be produced by Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Darkish Horse, David Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North, and Idris Elba. In Bang!, when a terrorist cult units out to start out the apocalypse with a sequence of novels meant to brainwash their readers, the world’s most celebrated spy is shipped to trace down and kill the creator accountable.

• Based mostly on Kindt’s acclaimed Thoughts MGMT sequence, Curtis Gwinn (Stranger Issues) is ready to Government Produce this sequence adaptation. The movie shall be produced by Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Darkish Horse, together with Gwinn. In Thoughts MGMT, a younger lady stumbles onto the top-secret Thoughts Administration program. Her ensuing journey includes weaponized psychics, hypnotic promoting, speaking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she makes an attempt to search out the person who was MIND MGMT’s biggest success – and its most devastating failure. However in a world the place folks can rewrite actuality itself, can she belief something she sees?

• Director Alice Waddington (Paradise Hills) is ready to direct Netflix’s adaptation of Dept. H, which relies on the favored comedian e-book sequence by Matt and Sharlene Kindt. Author T.S. Nowlin (The Maze Runner) will adapt the script. Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg and Paul Schwake of Darkish Horse Leisure will produce.

“When you shut your eyes and picture John Wick being dropped right into a Wes Anderson movie, you’ll have a way of the world of SPY SUPERB,“ stated Darkish Horse Writer Mike Richardson. “It’s unconventional, uncommon and the type of good motion comedian e-book you count on from Matt Kindt.”

SPY SUPERB is the second launch from Flux Home, a brand new boutique imprint that can characteristic the writing (and generally) artwork of Matt Kindt, with crime, science fiction, and humor tales, all instructed and introduced in startling and untraditional methods, following the discharge of MIND MGMT: BOOTLEG. SPY SUPERB challenge 1 will characteristic a essential cowl by Matt Kindt and incentive variant covers by Martin Simmonds, Tula Lotay, and Christian Ward. For extra details about Flux Home, comply with Darkish Horse Comics on social media and comply with Flux Home on Twitter.

Reward for Matt Kindt:

“Kindt breaks all preconceived notions of what comedian books are.”—IGN

“Kindt is a storyteller so totally in charge of his items that his graphic novels learn like quietly compelling arguments for the comics medium’s narrative potential.”—NPR

“One of the thrilling and authentic skills within the enterprise”—The Los Angeles Occasions