Having worked on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ed Brubaker (Fatale) and Steve Epting certainly are familiar with producing espionage thrillers; the creative duo have teamed with Image Comics to produce the series Velvet.
Velvet Templeton is supposed to be just a secretary, the personal assistant to the Director of a top secret Intelligence Agency, but when the world's greatest spy is killed, she quickly finds herself caught in a web of mystery and murder, as her own secret past comes to light.
“The thing I'm most excited about with Velvet is, she's a woman with this incredibly dangerous history who’s been living a quiet life for a long time, and her current life and who she used to be are about to collide in a very explosive way," stated Brubaker. "So she’s going to have to face a lot of things she’s been hiding from, and do things she barely remembers how to, and hope she’s still as good as she used to be." The covers are inspired by the spy novels of 1960s and 1970 as well by the painterly colours produced by Elizabeth Breitweiser. “I'm a huge fan of the illustration art from that era and it was actually a big influence on my approach to the covers for Captain America,” remarked Epting. “I'm hoping to bring even more of that sensibility to Velvet—especially considering the time in which the story is set.”
Velvet #1 can be pre-ordered now from the August issue of Previews and will be in stores on October 23, 2013.
As for those Burn the Orphanage teasers…
Writer Joshua Williamson and artist Goran Sudzuka have had a third straight sell-out for their supernatural heist comic series with Ghosted #3.
A team of thieves are tasked with stealing a ghost from a haunted mansion.
The second printing of Ghosted #3 can be pre-ordered now and arrives in stores on October 16, 2013 while Ghosted #4 will be available for sale on October 9, 2013.