Reggie Riot is no one’s idea of a cultural savior The latchkey child of a busy single mother he’s grown up to be a resentful slacker whose idea of high culture is getting stoned & admiring the graffiti in the alley where he scores his weed His mother however is not your average working parent She’s the head of a secret organization called Art Ops whose mission is protecting the artistic treasures of the world—which have a lot more life in them than a casual observer might realize Reggie has always shunned his mom’s high-culture scene but a devastating encounter with the shadowy forces menacing the world’s masterpieces has left him with a permanent expression of the chaotic power of art flowing through his very veins So when Art Ops itself suddenly vanishes without a trace leaving its final rescue— La Gioconda the Mona Lisa herself—out in the cold it’s up to Reggie & his motley crew—including a masked super-powered operative who writes sitcom scripts on spec a girls-just-wanna-have-fun ’80s music-video icon & a suburban clerk from a mall-punk clothing chain—to come to the rescue But do they have what it takes to stand up to the dark side of human creativity? From writer Shaun Simon (co-author of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys with My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way) & artists Michael Allred (co-creator of i ZOMBIE) & Matt Brundage (The Spirit The New Adventures) comes ART OPS VOL 1 HOW TO START A RIOT collecting issues 1-5 of the ongoing VERTIGO series & featuring a special sketchbook section from Allred & Brundage Meet the Author Shaun Simon is a musician & comics writer With Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance he is writing the Dark Horse Comics series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys He also wrote a short story in the VERTIGO CYAN anthology ART OPS is his first series Michael & Doc& Allred grew up in the 60s & 70s & was surrounded with the best in pop culture & a steady diet of music movies & comic books Allred first tasted success in comics with his wildly popular MADMAN series which is being developed as a live action film with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez His earlier work from GRAFIK MUZIK was turned into the cult hit movie G-Men from Hell directed by Christopher Coppola (featuring Robert Goulet as the Devil) Other work
Includes:: Red Rocket 7 his history of Rock & Roll told in the context of a sci-fi adventure story the Madman spin-off THE ATOMICS & his magnum opus THE GOLDEN PLATES where he&s illustrating the entire Book of Mormon He is the co-creatore of the Vertigo series i ZOMBIE soon to be a TV series on the CW