Assassinistas by Tini Howard - ISBN: 9781684052714
Paperback
Killer family, retro vibes, and black-market weapons, what could go wrong?

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  • Paperback

    152 pages

  • Release Date

    21 August 2018

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Summary

Modern Family. Retro Sass. Highly Trained–To Kick Your Ass!

Take a semester off with Dominic Price, his mom, his boyfriend, and $40,000 of black-market weapons. What could possibly go wrong?

First there were three—Octavia, Charlotte, and Rosalyn, a trio of badass hit-women who picked up the slack when the going got too real for other so-called top-level assassins. But things happened. Octavia hung up her semi-automatic for a semi-lucrative kidnapping insurance scam. Charlotte …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781684052714
ISBN-10:1684052718
Author:Tini Howard, Gilbert Hernandez
Publisher:Idea & Design Works
Imprint:Idea & Design Works
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:152
Release Date:21 August 2018
Weight:431g
Dimensions:262mm x 170mm x 8mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Think Kill Bill if it was directed by Wes Anderson… that unique intersection between thrill-killing and family drama.” Magdalene Visaggio, Kim and Kim, Eternity Girl

“Gilbert Hernandez’s art is one of a kind, Tini Howard combines domestic drama with grindhouse film thrills.” — Graphic Policy

“A complex engine of performance parts.” — Comicosity

“With ASSASSINISTAS, Howard’s a ferocity of emotion, her characters brimming with history and pathos, regret and ambition.” — DoomRocket

“…where comics and pulp cinema tangle and have a love child.” — Comic Crusaders

“A work of pure comic book perfection. It reads like Unforgiven for Charlie’s Angels.” Jeremy Whitley, Unstoppable Wasp

“…fast-paced energy and brilliant artwork…” — Comicsverse

“Maximum bad-ass-itude. Howard and Hernandez kill it.” Chuck Wendig, Star Wars: Aftermath

About The Author

Tini Howard

Tini Howard got her start in comics as a winner of the Top Cow Talent Hunt in 2013, which earned her the chance to write Magdelena- Seventh Sacrament (December 2014, Image/Top Cow). Since then she’s worked on The Skeptics, Hack/Slash and Rick and Morty- Pocket Like You Stole It. She also writes about comics, primarily for Teen Vogue and Paste magazine. Tini is a Slytherin.

Gilbert Hernandez is the creator, with his brother Jaime, of Love and Rockets, a modern classic that debuted in 1981. Gilbert’s contribution to the series is the long-running Palomar saga, which tells the stories of the inhabitants of a Central American village. L&R’s first volume ended in 1996, but more followed, and the series continues to this day, published by Fantagraphics. Gilbert has also worked with DC, Dark Horse, IDW, and Drawn & Quarterly. In 2017, Gilbert and Jaime were inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame.

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