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via AIPT: ‘The 06 Protocol’ is a story of family secrets, betrayal and bonds built in blood. The seemingly perfect life of the Mirino family is shattered when family patriarch, Faust, is brutally murdered on a quiet summer night. His wife, Cat, and 16-year-old daughter, Missy, are forced to confront a shocking truth about Faust’s involvement in a secret government program known as THE 06 PROTOCOL. Now, Cat and Missy have to protect each other as they are hunted, and haunted, by the people and secrets of Faust’s double life. Written by Lee Turner and illustrated by Cliff Richards (10...

via The Beat AfterShock Comics has announced Last Line, a new sci-fi adventure series due out in September. The series comes from the creative team of writer Richard Dinnick, artist Jose Holder, colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick, and letterer Dave Sharpe. The first issue of the series features a main cover by Andy Clarke & Jose Villarrubia, and an incentive variant cover by Das Pastoras. Here’s how AfterShock describes Last Line: Sally Hazzard just had the worst day of her life: While on a usual shift as a driver for the tube, the unthinkable happened when a man is pushed in front of her train and killed.  But…there’s something strange here. Sally...

Via Deadline: EXCLUSIVE: A Calculated Man is the latest comic series that could make its way to the small screen. Hulu has acquired the rights to AfterShock Media’s book and is in the very early stages of developing a series based on the crime story, which is set to be published in June. Peter Calloway, a co-exec producer on series including Freeform’s Marvel series Cloak & Dagger and FX’s Legion, has signed to write and serve as showrunner on the project. He has previously worked with the comic company on the book Shadow Doctor, which was set in Prohibition-era Chicago and drawn from the real world experiences of Calloway’s...

via Multiversity Comics: AfterShock Comics have announced “Jimmy’s Little Bastards,” a sequel to Garth Ennis and Russ Braun’s 2017-18 James Bond parody “Jimmy’s Bastards.” The follow-up, which will be published as an oversized, three-part prestige miniseries, will see British superspy Jimmy Regent on extended leave, and settling down into middle aged life, while his illegitimate daughter Nancy takes on the role of battling his old foes. “But a mysterious message starts Jimmy looking into his family’s murky past… where he finds a clue to a strange and deadly new danger.” The comic will be colored by John Kalisz, and lettered...

via AIPT: ‘Samurai Doggy’ #1 is a story of loss, revenge and the journey to defeat the greatest empire of machines and robots that has ever existed. During the Fourth War of the Sun, a small dog named DOGGY experienced an irreparable trauma: his mother was brutally murdered, and his eight brothers, still puppies, were kidnapped by a mysterious man. To save them, Doggy fought bravely against the terrible killer, but all his efforts were in vain, and he was left for dead. What nobody imagined was that a technological vulture scavenging the region for corpses would be the one...