Out with the Old and In with the New as Duggan and McCrea Unveil DEAD EYES
September 6, 2019Initially titled, Dead Rabbit, an Image Comics series, from creators Gerry Duggan and John McCrea, was pulled because of trademark infringement as a New York City-based bar currently holds the same name. A year later, the series is now back under its new title, Dead Eyes.
A stickup hoodlum, Dead Eyes, was prolific in his heydays of the 1990s in Boston, when he disappeared after his final score. He retired to be with the love of his life, but now he dawns ‘the mask’ again to save his wife. No one, not the cops, mafia or even the person he is trying to save, his wife, are happy that he’s out of retirement.
“Some of the Dead Eyes experience actually comes from my time living in Boston. It was the place I learned to write, tend bar and, unfortunately, learned to fight,” said Duggan. “I wasn’t a stickup guy, but the gag in Issue 2, with the bottle underneath the brake pad, is something that happened to me. I almost died in Boston, when I was in a cab, where the driver’s vodka bottle came between the brake pad and the floor of the car. We almost, uh, crashed. There’s also a real, true-life Boston crime that we’re going to nudge up against at the end of our first arc. That will lead us into a second arc. It coincides with one of the most-notorious art thefts in the world, which occurred in Boston.”
Dead Eyes #1 will debut on bookshelves on Wednesday, Oct. 2.
Click HERE for the exclusive reveal on the upcoming series, via SyFy Wire, including a Q&A with Duggan.
