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assassinistas
#2 cover A jan2018
HOWARD HERNANDEZ DAVIS BIDIKAR
LAST MONTH’S BULLET POINTS Dominic Price is a college-age cutie-pie who just wants to spend the semester making out with his boyfriend, Taylor, in between rounds of TurboLight Fighter and maintaining a decent 3.2 GPA. His mom, Octavia, formerly a badass action-movie-quality bounty hunter, didn’t pay his tuition, because she had to get back in the business and spend 40K on black market weapons and body armor. I mean, every mom’s been there, right? Thing is, when one of your fellow Assassinistas, the women who laid down their lives beside yours for years, reports her 4-year-old (“Kyler”...yeesh) missing, and she’s too pregnant to hunt him down herself, you get the fuck to work. So Octavia’s gotten the fuck to work. And she’s bringing Dominic and his boyfriend with her, because the alternative is making lattes for a semester, and they’d rather die.
Cover RI by Cara McGee
Cover B by Cara McGee
Cover A by Gilbert Hernandez and Rob Davis
Good thing in mom’s line of work, dying is an option.
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