We’re living in a golden age of Dad Comics.
Remember how your dad’s bookshelf had all those John Grisham and Tom Clancy novels on it?
Dad Comics are John Grisham and Tom Clancy novels but for us (well, me at least. I don’t know your life). Instead of Jack Ryan and Jack Reacher and other cool customers named Jack, Dad Comics star folks like Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Ethan Reckless, or Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Lawless family.
OR characters not created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
One of my favorite comics this year has been Matthew Rosenberg and Stefano Landini’s We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us, a sardonic Image Comics spy thriller in which a robot created by a mad scientist attempts to safeguard the scientist’s foulmouthed young daughter from all manner of spies, tsarinas and other Bond-esque characters. Think The Venture Brothers by way of Paper Moon.
Issue #6, the final installment, came out this week, and sets up Annalise and her robot bodyguard for future stories, should the creative team wish to return to them.
One character we know we haven’t heard the last of is James Bond x Burt Reynolds spy Alistair Rook, who the book announces will return in a new series, In Good Hands with Bad Company, which is branded, like the first series, “A Rook Spy Thriller.”
Because that’s how you get the dads.
Check out the teaser below, and keep scrolling for the press release announcing the sequel.
And for our chat earlier this year about the series with Rosenberg, click here.
Bestselling writer Matthew Rosenberg (4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, What’s the Furthest Place From Here?) and fan-favorite artist Stefano Landini (Daredevil, Prodigy) have thrilled readers with their action-packed espionage thriller We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us, which shattered sales records and garnered widespread praise this year.
Now, in conjunction with the series’ sixth and final issue, the creative duo reveals that Alistair Rook will return in In Good Hands With Bad Company.
“Stefano and I are blown away by the love for our weird little book” says writer Matthew Rosenberg. “We couldn’t have done it without the support of all the amazing fans and retailers. I mean, we could have. But it would have been very stupid, and we would have lost so much money.”
We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us picks up when 13-year-old Annalise’s mad-scientist father is killed by the world’s greatest spy, leaving her all alone in the world with only her dead dad’s robot bodyguard as a companion. Will she try to lead a normal life for the first time ever…or seek revenge and maybe overthrow the world order in the process? Over six issues, readers have followed an unparalleled journey of super spies and pseudoscience, growing up and global domination, regret and retribution. Today, they are rewarded on the final page of this sixth and final issue.
For those who missed this James Bond meets Leon: The Professional series which thrilled readers over six action packed issues, We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us arrives in a collected edition (ISBN: 9781534333369) at your favorite comic book shop on Wednesday, December 24 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones two weeks later on Tuesday, January 20.
We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Omnibus.
Details on In Good Hands With Bad Company to be further revealed soon.
Buy We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us #6 here. (Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, ComicsXF may earn from qualifying purchases.)
Dan Grote is the editor and publisher of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Paul Winston Wisdom. Follow him @danielpgrote.bsky.social.
