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Informationen zum Autor Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist. He has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books. Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. With Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launching Ultimate Spider-Man in 2000. He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, and has also written the Marvel "event" storylines "Secret War" (2004–2005), "House of M" (2005), "Secret Invasion" (2008), "Siege" (2010) and "Age of Ultron" (2013). In addition to writing comics, Brendis has worked in television, video games and film. He has also taught courses on Graphic Novels at University of Oregon and Portland State University. In 2014, Bendis wrote Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels, a book about comics published by Random House. Klappentext "Meet Jagger Rose. She is only twelve years old. Her father was just murdered. As family tradition would have it, she will be given an opportunity to exact revenge on her father's killer. The greatest assassin the world will ever know is born. Years ago, the five families of organized crime had such a stranglehold over the American public that the US government found itself forced to give up part of the country or lose all of it. Now the unrest between America and the families has come to a boiling point. A war is about to come--a war no one is ready for. Newly made man Valentine Gallo and mob hit woman Jagger Rose fine themselves torn over which side of the war they want to be on."--Back cover. Zusammenfassung From the creators of the Eisner Award-winning, bestselling POWERS comes this brand-new world of historical crime fiction like you've never seen before. Meet Jagger Rose. She is only 12 years old. Her father was just murdered. As family tradition would have it, she will be given an opportunity to exact revenge on her father's killer. The greatest assassin the world will ever know is born. Years ago, the five families of organized crime had such a stranglehold over the American public that the U.S. government found itself forced to give up part of the country or lose all of it. Now the unrest between America and the families has come to a boiling point. A war is about to come—a war no one is ready for. Newly-made man Valentine Gallo and mob hitwoman Jagger Rose find themselves torn over which side of the war they want to be on. Collects the United States vs Murder. Inc #1–#6 along with a brand-new cover by Michael Avon Oeming!...
