A Vicious Circle - by Mattson Tomlin (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A mind-bending, genre-blending sci-fi epic following two time traveling assassins, locked in a battle of wills that spans millions of years from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond.

The genre defining, Eisner Award-nominated epic is now complete. Legendary artist Lee Bermejo (Batman: Damned, Joker) and visionary writer Mattson Tomlin (BRZRKR: Fallen Empire, The Batman Part II) join forces for an exhilarating, mind-bending time travel saga spanning from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond.

Shawn Thacker is a trained assassin from the future who seeks revenge on the only other man with his affliction--each life they claim propels them both through drastically different times, spanning the distant past and future.

As their destinies intertwine, these two mortal rivals find themselves locked in a battle of wills that spans millions of years... At stake? The course of history itself.

Collects A Vicious Circle #1-3.

About the Author

Mattson Tomlin is the screenwriter of the Netflix superhero movie Project Power starring Jamie Foxx as well as the writer/producer of the film Little Fish starring Olivia Cooke. He made his directorial debut in 2021 with Mother/Android starring Chloë Grace Moretz and his debut in comics writing Batman: The Imposter with DC Comics. Currently, he is showrunning an upcoming anime series based on The Terminator for Netflix and Skydance, writing the screenplay for Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR based on the BOOM! Studios comic, and co-writing the upcoming sequel to The Batman with director Matt Reeves.

Lee Bermejo is an American illustrator and writer based out of Italy. He has primarily collaborated with Brian Azzarello on series such as Joker, Luthor, Before Watchmen: Rorschach, and Batman: Damned for DC Comics. As a cover artist his work can be found on titles like Detective Comics and Hellblazer for DC Comics, amongst many others. As a writer and artist he completed Batman: Noel and Suiciders, the latter also his own creation. His latest publication is Dear Detective, a sequential collection of his Detective Comics covers.