Space Bandits

Multi award-winning writer Mark Millar is the writer of JUPITER'S LEGACY from Image Comics, which he co-created with artist Frank Quitely. Also at Image, his WANTED comic series was the industry's biggest-selling creator-owned book of the last ten years until he smashed his own record with KICK-ASS, each issue selling more than Spider-Man and X-Men from issue one with an unprecedented five printings every issue. Both properties were sold as movies before the first issue hit the stands and everything Millar has ever created is in various stages of theatrical development. Wanted starred Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. Kick-Ass stars actor Nicolas Cage. In addition to WANTED and KICK-ASS, Millar has revamped the X-Men, launched a number one Spider-Man title, brought Captain America into the 21st Century and made Superman a communist.Matteo Scalera is an Italian comic book artist. Some of his work includes Batman, Daredevil, Deadpool, Dynamo Five and Dead Body Road. Currently he is the artist and co-creator to the sci-fi drama Black Science with writer Rick Remender.

LIBRARY JOURNAL -- Cody Blue is acriminal mastermind whose latest scheme-hiring all of the most effective membersof the most successful criminal gangs across the galaxy to assist her in aseries of heists-seems foolproof, until they betray her and leave her for dead.Thena Khole is a vicious hand-to-hand fighter smitten with a con man named ViggoLust, with whom she pulls a series of schemes until she's abandoned andarrested. When both women are sentenced to serve in a penal colony inside a100-mile-long crustacean drifting through space, they become fast friends,quickly escape, and set out for vengeance. Millar (Sharkey the BountyHunter) has built his career on making simple, tried-and-true-premises seemfresh and fun, and illustrator Scalera (Black Science. Vol. 9: NoAuthority but Yours) proves an excellent collaborator, as the two set aclassic crime plot in an intergalactic society heavily influenced by the fashionand culture of Earth in the 1980s.VERDICTWatching Cody and Thena wreak havoc is a total blast in this fast-paced, Day-Gloromp.