Lucas Blogs About Assassin Nation Vol. 1
Oh, Assassin Nation sounds like "assassination," I get it. So, what's this book's deal? Well, the deal with Assassin Nation: Number One with a Bullet is that it's a comic book written by Kyle Starks and drawn by Erica Henderson. You may recall that Henderson was the original artist who worked with Ryan North on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl . As for Kyle Starks, this is the first time I've read his work. Anyway, the comic opens with the attempted assassination of Boss Rankin, formerly the world's top-rated hitman, currently the head of the city's second-largest crime syndicate. In response, Rankin invites the current top twenty hired killers to his penthouse to offer them the chance to be his new protection detail. Unsurprisingly, several of them have been hired to kill him at this very gathering, leading to a shoot-out. Over the course of the five issues collected in this paperback we see Starks and Henderson explore such topics as gang w...