The Winter Men - Softcover

Lewis, Brett

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ISBN 10: 1401225268 ISBN 13: 9781401225261

Publisher: WildStorm, 2009

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About the Author:

Brett Lewis is a freelance writer and consultant living in the Los Angeles area. The WInter Men is his first comic. John Paul Leon is an acclaimed artist whose work includes Batman, Earth-X, Static, Superman and X-men.

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Lewis and Leon postulate that the Soviet Union developed a supersoldier before it imploded—just one, which was abetted with special forces individually encased in “rocket-tanks”; the “tankmen,” it’s hinted, were biotechnologically enhanced, too. The supersoldier disappeared, but five former tankmen remain. Kris Kalenov, now one of Moscow’s finest, gets specially assigned by the mayor when a little girl with a transplanted liver is kidnapped. The organ confers some supercapabilities on the child, including being able, when grown, to bear a supersoldier, thereby launching a new race. Kris contacts fellow ex-tankmen Drost, an army “rapid reaction corps” commander; disarmingly gorgeous bodyguard Nina; and Nikki, a gangster, and the game’s afoot. Played out in the context of “Mafiya” gang warfare and ex–secret police faction-fighting, it’s graveyard-humorous, lethally tough, and curiously sluggish; its best sequence is an interlude in which Kris takes Nikki along for a day of ordinary police work just for, uh, laughs. Leon’s glorious, mercurial comics-realist artwork almost completely compensates for the script’s lack of zest. --Ray Olson

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