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Kingsman : the Secret Service / writer, Mark Millar ; artist, Dave Gibbons.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Marvel Comics, 2014Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0785192778
  • 9780785192770
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Around the globe, pop-culture celebrities are being abducted, and no one knows why. Jack London -- superspy -- is on the case. But Jack has problems of his own: a deadbeat sister and her out-of-control son. Young Eggsy has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and his life is circling the drain. Only Jack stands between his nephew and a jail cell. But seeing something of himself in Eggsy, Jack offers him one last chance for a future -- in spy school. Out of his element, surrounded by the best and the brightest, are Eggsy's street smarts enough for him to make it as a secret agent? Does he have what it takes to help his uncle find the celebrities and save the world?
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Graphic Novel Millar Mark Available 33111007948645
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar, Watchmen legend Dave Gibbons, and superstar director Matt hew Vaughn team up to reinvent the spy genre for the 21st century in one of the most brilliant new comics of recent years. A British secret agent feels guilty about never spending time with his deadbeat sister and takes his wayward nephew under his wing aft er he's arrested in the London riots. The boy is heading straight for a jail cell until his uncle steps in and tries to give him a new life, training him up to be a gentleman spy. Gone are the garish street clothes and chunky jewelry, replaced with a Savile Row suit and bulletproof umbrella as he travels the globe to uncover a plot that links the kidnapping of the world's most famous sci-fi actors with a plot to eradicate 90% of the human race.

COLLECTING : THE SECRET SERVICE 1-6 PLUS BONUS MATERIAL (SKETCHES, COMMENTARY, ETC.)

Around the globe, pop-culture celebrities are being abducted, and no one knows why. Jack London -- superspy -- is on the case. But Jack has problems of his own: a deadbeat sister and her out-of-control son. Young Eggsy has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and his life is circling the drain. Only Jack stands between his nephew and a jail cell. But seeing something of himself in Eggsy, Jack offers him one last chance for a future -- in spy school. Out of his element, surrounded by the best and the brightest, are Eggsy's street smarts enough for him to make it as a secret agent? Does he have what it takes to help his uncle find the celebrities and save the world?

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