Press Release
BOOM! Studios is proud to bring a classic action comedy back in print with 2 GUNS: SECOND SHOT DELUXE EDITION. The new comic-sized collection includes the complete original series written by comics legend Steven Grant along with a host of new bonus features. The book, featuring a brand new cover by original series cover artist Rafael Albuquerque (AMERICAN VAMPIRE) hits stores in early May, just months before the major motion picture hits theatres!
Trench is a deep-cover DEA agent. Steadman is an undercover Naval Intelligence officer. Both think the other is a simple gun-for- hire, the perfect accomplice to help steal a bank vault full of mob money for the good guys. And neither realizes that their caper is a gigantic double-cross from the mob, who’s just tricked both men into stealing $50 million from the CIA! Now Trench and Steadman race headlong across the Southwest, guns blazing, desperately outrunning Feds and mobsters alike while scrambling madly to find some way of clearing both their names before they’re carved on tombstones! Written by classic voice Steven Grant (PUNISHER: CIRCLE OF BLOOD, AVENGERS, INCREDIBLE HULK) and drawn by rising star Mateus Santolouco (DIAL H, AMERICAN VAMPIRE), 2 GUNS is a lightning-paced, plot-rich crime thriller! Collecting the classic series for the first time in a full-size edition, featuring an all new cover by Rafael Albuquerque (AMERICAN VAMPIRE) and exclusive bonus content from writer Steven Grant!
Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg! Directed by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur and also starring Paula Patton, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, and Edward James Olmos. The film is scheduled to be in theaters on August 2nd, 2013. For more information and to view the trailer, go to 2guns.net.
The 2 GUNS: SECOND SHOT DELUXE EDITION ships with an all-new cover by artist Rafael Albuquerque (AMERICAN VAMPIRE) under Diamond order code MAR130915. Available for the first time in a full-sized edition, the collection retails for $19.99 and has 144 pages.
About BOOM! Studios
Founded by Ross Richie, 2009 and 2010’s “Best Publisher” BOOM! Studios (www.boom-studios.com) generates a constellation of bestselling Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic books and graphic novels with the industry’s top talent, including Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning’s HYPERNATURALS, new HELLRAISER comics written by Clive Barker, PLANET OF THE APES, and Sam Humphries’ HIGHER EARTH. BOOM!’s all ages imprint KaBOOM! publishes Charles Schulz’ PEANUTS, Jim Davis’ GARFIELD, Cartoon Network’s ADVENTURE TIME, and 20th Century Fox’ ICE AGE. KaBOOM! recently won an Eisner Award for its first original series Roger Langridge’s SNARKED. BOOM!’s lit comix-focused imprint, BOOM! Town, won an Eisner Award for its first book, Shannon Wheeler’s I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER, and just released SPACE DUCKS, the first comic book from indie musician legend Daniel Johnston.
