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Ex-Con Gets Its Artist – Duane Swierczynski Is Joined By Keith Burns On New Dynamite Series

Dynamite kicked off the Creator Unleashed! line with Joshua Hale Fialkov and Matt Triano doing The Devilers. That was followed by Peter Milligan and Piotr Kowalski taking on Terminal Hero. Now, the lastest in the creator driven comics is on it's way from Duane Swierczynski and Keith Burns… Ex-Con. And the first issue will feature a cover by Tim Bradstreet.

Ex-Con #1 begins in 1985 with L.A. con artist Cody Pomeray, who had a gift for looking inside a mark's soul with just a glance. But one fateful night, he targeted the wrong man — and was sentenced to the most savage prison in California. Pomeray would have been beaten to death on his first day if not for the intervention of Barnaby Creed, the most powerful crime lord in the Southland. Now it is 1989 and Pomeray's out on parole, robbed of his special ability and tasked with doing Creed "a little favor." He has no idea he's just stepped into a long con, and this time, *he's* the mark!

"EX-CON is probably my first balls-out crime story for comics, as opposed to other comics that have had a superhero or science-fiction element to them," says writer Duane Swierczynski. "Granted, Cody has an ability that could be considered a superpower, but he's no hero, believe me. Fans who've liked my darker novels — THE WHEELMAN or THE BLONDE, for instance — will feel at home in Cody's twisted little noir world."

Ex-Con #1 will be in the July Previews catalog for release in September 2014.

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