COVER Volume 1

Mack's avant-garde art highlights this true story. The intelligence community figures out that the traveling band of social misfits who make comic books are an exact match to the profiles of candidates recruited for intelligence and counterintelligence gathering. A well-known comics creator is recruited by the agency to live a double life as a spy. And convention season is upon us! What could go wrong? With an impressionistic style that alternates with realism, this threads the artist's own work (illustrating stories of ronin and ninja) with this very real world of espionage and spies. Like Sienkiewicz, Frank Miller and Dave McKean, but very much in his own way, David Mack pushes the envelope with an innovative, impressionist style that works well with this story but is nothing like what we see in conventional comic books. Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, Peabody and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and Powers; and acclaimed creator of the bestselling Kabuki series David Mack team up to tell an incredible new espionage epic in Cover.