Dynamite Entertainment continues to expand past its various licensed properties with creator driven works and the latest one definitely looks like it’ll be fun for fans of the genre with Ex-Con. The series comes from author Duane Swierczynski (Cable, Deadpool, Judge Dredd) and artist Keith Burns. The series is set to release in September 2014 with issues priced at $2.99. The first issue is tempting just for the cover alone as it features work by fan-favorite Tim Bradstreet!
“Ex-Con is probably my first balls-out crime story for comics, as opposed to other comics that have had a superhero or science-fiction element to them,” says writer Duane Swierczynski. “Granted, Cody has an ability that could be considered a superpower, but he’s no hero, believe me. Fans who’ve liked my darker novels — The Wheelman or The Blonde, for instance — will feel at home in Cody’s twisted little noir world.”
Plot concept: Ex-Con #1 begins in 1985 with L.A. con artist Cody Pomeray, who had a gift for looking inside a mark’s soul with just a glance. But one fateful night, he targeted the wrong man — and was sentenced to the most savage prison in California. Pomeray would have been beaten to death on his first day if not for the intervention of Barnaby Creed, the most powerful crime lord in the Southland. Now it is 1989 and Pomeray’s out on parole, robbed of his special ability and tasked with doing Creed “a little favor.” He has no idea he’s just stepped into a long con, and this time, *he’s* the mark!