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Black Badge
Black Badge #1
Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins, the Eisner Award-nominated team behind Grass Kings, reunite for a new ongoing series about a top-secret, elite branch of boy scouts tasked by the government to take on covert missions. Among their organization, the Black Badges are the elite; the best of the best. They are feared even by the other badges. The missions they take are dangerous, and they will only get worse as their leader’s attention is split between their mission and tracking down a lost team member. A member who disappeared years ago, presumed dead. A haunting look at foreign policy, culture wars and isolationism through the lens of kids who know they must fix the world that adults have broken.
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27 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 22, 2018
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March 29, 2019
Black Badge Vol. 1
by Matt Kindt
BOOM! Studios
Black Badge reads very well as an e-book, not having double page spreads that some e-readers can't handle.
Matt Kindt has created a dark, fun, twist on Boy Scouts. We follow a group of scouts trying to earn their black badge(s) dealing with espionage and even wet works. These kids can go places adult operatives can't because if they get caught they can play the innocent lost lamb card. Kindt fleshes out a world where kids are sent to clean up adults messes with complexity and humor. Getting to know our scouts is a big part of the fun as their personalities are laid vulnerably bare despite their obvious skills, as questions arise about the authority they blindly follow.
Much of the fun is in the ancillary material; where pages from the Black Badge Scout Handbook can be found, including a list of the black badges to be earned are detailed.
Quick Note: Matt Kindt anticipated the Boy Scouts of America now allowing girls into the club.
by Matt Kindt
BOOM! Studios
Black Badge reads very well as an e-book, not having double page spreads that some e-readers can't handle.
Matt Kindt has created a dark, fun, twist on Boy Scouts. We follow a group of scouts trying to earn their black badge(s) dealing with espionage and even wet works. These kids can go places adult operatives can't because if they get caught they can play the innocent lost lamb card. Kindt fleshes out a world where kids are sent to clean up adults messes with complexity and humor. Getting to know our scouts is a big part of the fun as their personalities are laid vulnerably bare despite their obvious skills, as questions arise about the authority they blindly follow.
Much of the fun is in the ancillary material; where pages from the Black Badge Scout Handbook can be found, including a list of the black badges to be earned are detailed.
Quick Note: Matt Kindt anticipated the Boy Scouts of America now allowing girls into the club.
January 23, 2019
WOW WOW WOW. Everything about this graphic novel is a win in my book. The premise is incredible and original: scouts who do the government’s dirty work. The characters are so enjoyable and I can’t wait to delve more into the plot and the characters in the following volumes! The art is stunning, colors vibrant, and the pacing is nice and even. A perfect first volume to set up what I KNOW is gonna be a wonderful series!
August 29, 2018
Normally I'd wait for a trade paperback to rate a comic series, but I feel incredibly disinterested in a book about boys "just following orders".
The art is nice; the colors are freaking amazing, though. I thought that they really brought the whole series to life.
The art is nice; the colors are freaking amazing, though. I thought that they really brought the whole series to life.
August 12, 2018
No idea what this is going to be like. Love it!
October 26, 2018
As a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, I was intrigued by the concept behind this series.
Actually reading it, I totally fell into the art. It’s lush! The characters are also pretty cool. They’re a bunch of teen boys with absurd black ops skills who want to have the maturity and grit that one believes someone with their kind of job would have, but really they’re still really naive and probably a little hormonal and the missions they go on are obviously traumatizing. So they are essentially regular teen boys with super toys. I like I just can’t say yet that I LOVE it. But I definitely felt that it’s title I need to put in my box at my local comic shop, so it is a read I would recommend.
Actually reading it, I totally fell into the art. It’s lush! The characters are also pretty cool. They’re a bunch of teen boys with absurd black ops skills who want to have the maturity and grit that one believes someone with their kind of job would have, but really they’re still really naive and probably a little hormonal and the missions they go on are obviously traumatizing. So they are essentially regular teen boys with super toys. I like I just can’t say yet that I LOVE it. But I definitely felt that it’s title I need to put in my box at my local comic shop, so it is a read I would recommend.
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