New Series Spotlight: Masterpiece

By Emmanuel Batista | November 1 2023 | Comics

 

Fan-favorite creative team Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev are back with a brand new crime story. Masterpiece is about a young girl who discovers that she is the daughter of the world’s greatest thieves. She is forced to gather a team to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time for a sinister billionaire who has ties to her parents. If you’re a fan of Bendis and Maleev’s previous crime work, make sure to grab your copy of Masterpiece when it releases Dec 13, 2023.

Masterpiece #1 (CVR A) (Alex Maleev)
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From the Eisner award-winning creators behind Daredevil and Scarlet comes an all-new crime comic epic!!   Emma is a brilliant and driven 16-year-old. She has paid for school with her next level inventions and is well-known for her funny and honest webcomics. Then, one day, one of the most famous billionaires on the planet confronts her with the truth about her world. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. The suavest, most liked criminals ever. The criminal’s criminal. The ones that wrote the rulebook. There are movies about them starring the biggest movie stars. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time, AND they took the world’s most famous billionaire for a cool billion... before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. Ghosts.     Zero Preston is the greedy billionaire her parents brilliantly ripped off before they disappeared. He has been looking for payback for years. He finds Emma . . . who clearly does not have his money. Zero threatens Masterpiece into pulling a grand, impossible job against his corporate enemy. This “Master of the Universe” will have his satisfaction.   Masterpiece fashions a crew of her peers and her parents’ old associates to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time.   Among the cast of characters comes the return of the legendary criminal The Paragon.  A Robin Hood for our times. This exquisitely well-dressed, long con master criminal returns to his calling when faced with the truth behind the sinister corporate forces of Zero.
$3.99 US
Dec 13, 2023
Comic Book
32 Pages
Dark Horse Comics

Masterpiece #1 (CVR B) (Tula Lotay)
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From the Eisner award-winning creators behind Daredevil and Scarlet comes an all-new crime comic epic!!   Emma is a brilliant and driven 16-year-old. She has paid for school with her next level inventions and is well-known for her funny and honest webcomics. Then, one day, one of the most famous billionaires on the planet confronts her with the truth about her world. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. The suavest, most liked criminals ever. The criminal’s criminal. The ones that wrote the rulebook. There are movies about them starring the biggest movie stars. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time, AND they took the world’s most famous billionaire for a cool billion... before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. Ghosts.     Zero Preston is the greedy billionaire her parents brilliantly ripped off before they disappeared. He has been looking for payback for years. He finds Emma . . . who clearly does not have his money. Zero threatens Masterpiece into pulling a grand, impossible job against his corporate enemy. This “Master of the Universe” will have his satisfaction.   Masterpiece fashions a crew of her peers and her parents’ old associates to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time.   Among the cast of characters comes the return of the legendary criminal The Paragon.  A Robin Hood for our times. This exquisitely well-dressed, long con master criminal returns to his calling when faced with the truth behind the sinister corporate forces of Zero.
$3.99 US
Dec 13, 2023
Comic Book
32 Pages
Dark Horse Comics

Masterpiece #1 (CVR C) (1:10) (Peach Momoko)
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From the Eisner award-winning creators behind Daredevil and Scarlet comes an all-new crime comic epic!!   Emma is a brilliant and driven 16-year-old. She has paid for school with her next level inventions and is well-known for her funny and honest webcomics. Then, one day, one of the most famous billionaires on the planet confronts her with the truth about her world. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. The suavest, most liked criminals ever. The criminal’s criminal. The ones that wrote the rulebook. There are movies about them starring the biggest movie stars. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time, AND they took the world’s most famous billionaire for a cool billion... before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. Ghosts.     Zero Preston is the greedy billionaire her parents brilliantly ripped off before they disappeared. He has been looking for payback for years. He finds Emma . . . who clearly does not have his money. Zero threatens Masterpiece into pulling a grand, impossible job against his corporate enemy. This “Master of the Universe” will have his satisfaction.   Masterpiece fashions a crew of her peers and her parents’ old associates to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time.   Among the cast of characters comes the return of the legendary criminal The Paragon.  A Robin Hood for our times. This exquisitely well-dressed, long con master criminal returns to his calling when faced with the truth behind the sinister corporate forces of Zero.
$3.99 US
Dec 13, 2023
Comic Book
32 Pages
Dark Horse Comics