Now a Hollywood blockbuster starring Colin Firth and Taron Egerton, KINGSMAN reinvents the spy genre for the 21st century.
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE is the critically acclaimed comic book series by Kick-Ass writer Mark Millar, Watchmen’s Dave Gibbons and director Matthew Vaughn. KINGSMAN: THE RED DIAMOND is the sequel to KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE by Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons, and Matthew Vaughn. Eggsy’s also up against the villain’s lethal hunchback henchman (hunchman?!) Ingot, and out to woo badass South African agent Kwaito while he’s at it.Ĭue riots, explosions, and plenty of old school Kingsman violence. We follow him on an international spy mission to save the world from The Red Diamond, a villain hell-bent on plunging society into chaos. Hero Eggsy is still not-quite-Bond, still rough-around-the-edges, still trying to be the suave gentleman he was trained to be. The new series sees brand-new creative team Rob Williams (Suicide Squad) and British superstar Simon Fraser take the helm for an international spy adventure, one that kicks off where James Bond draws the line. Mark Millar (KICK-ASS, REBORN, JUPITER’S LEGACY) unveils previously unseen KINGSMAN: THE RED DIAMOND #1 variants by superstar artist Frank Quitely (All-Star Superman, Batman & Robin).įrank Quitely’s variants join covers by original Kingsman creator Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Simon Fraser, and Rob Doyle to launch new series KINGSMAN: THE RED DIAMOND from Image Comics on Wednesday, September 6th-just in time for this summer’s biggest blockbuster, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, to hit cinemas. Official PR follows and then some more art: Image is revealing the Frank Quietly variant for the first issue, as well as the Dave Gibbons cover for the Image edition of the Kingsman: The Secret Service, which we’re running because… Dave Gibbons. The next series, Kingsman: The Red Diamond is being done by Rob Williams and Simon Fraser. Overhearing the conversation, Valentine detonates the implant in Arnold's neck blinding Galahad, and in fleeing, the diversion of the explosion set off by Galahad sends him into a coma.As you may have heard, Kingsman (formally The Secret Service, renamed in accordance with the film version) has switched from Marvel’s Icon imprint to Image. When Galahad finds that Arnold has been released, he meets him in a classroom at Imperial College and interrogates him about who captured him and why they let him go.
Valentine places a radio-sensitive chip in Arnold's neck before releasing him to go back to his life. Valentine personally shows up after Gazelle has dealt with Lancelot to question Arnold about his knowledge of Gaia Theory and convince him to join him in his plan to save the planet.
In Argentina, seventeen years after the failed mission in Afghanistan, Lancelot tracks Professor Arnold to a property in the Argentine mountains, having become aware of his kidnapping by unknown forces headed by Gazelle, Richmond Valentine's right-hand henchwoman. Professor Arnold's teachings and research revolved around Gaia Theory. Professor James Arnold was a physics lecturer at Imperial College in London. with the horrifying knowledge of its host's fragile mortality." ― James Arnold " Humankind is the only virus cursed to live.