Grimjack: Killer Instinct

(IDW, 2005)
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Mercenary swordsman John Gaunt (a.k.a. Grimjack) has seen and been it all—slave, gladiator, spy, and (briefly) dead,in the multi–dimensional metropolis of Cynosure. After a thirteen–year hiatus induced by disputes over who owned the rights, creator John Ostrander has finally brought him back in a two–part story whose events were mentioned in passing in the original comic. It starts with Grimjack chasing the gladiator–turned–revolutionary Dancer through a burning building after a failed coup attempt; when the mission ends on an unfortunate note, Grimjack quits the Trans Dimensional Police and finds himself with little to do. A figure from his past invites him into a new organization,the Gray Wolves, tasked by the Council of Ministers to protect Cynosure from threats by any means necessary. After he works long enough to grow tired of it all, he's ordered to take out Ilsa Kalter, a power–hungry minister and even worse than the zombie mercenaries, necromancers, and the other goodies that surround the target are the undisciplined group of agents he’s forced to take with him.

— Joe Trela

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