![]() ![]() Life in witness protection proved to be excruciatingly mundane for Zack, and he eventually donned a mask and became a superhero, not out of a desire to do good, but for his need to regain the thrill of living on the edge. Raised Zack from birth and trained by the Black Death, when the organization murdered Zack's twin brother and tried to kill him, he turned State's evidence and was placed in a witness protection program for supervillains. In last year's "Incognito," Brubaker and Phillips examined morality in a pulp fiction-styled world of super-powered people through the story of Zack Overkill, a former super-powered enforcer for a secret criminal conspiracy called the Black Death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their creator-owned series"Criminal" often focuses on stories about bad men with noble intentions. Sean Phillips' cover to "Incognito: Bad Influences" #1When it comes to most comic book stories, it's easy to tell who the heroes and villains are, but the creator-owned works of writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips are much more morally complex. ![]()
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