A Man Called Kev #1 - Wildstorm

Another installment in the "Chronicles of Kev - A Tiger, A Monkey and a Laptop". We have the usual suspects too, in Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra. It starts out with the usual gore, the first page is a body, Tony, being blown apart in Belfast. This must be one of Kev's first missions, because he's in shock. He then goes over with a garbage bag and trys to pick up all the pieces. This leads to him, in present time, having a meeting at a cafe where the new "Boss" has decided that he has 1 option, "Get out of the country and don't ever try to come back." And he has some blackmarket porn, that Kev made in Germany with the now famous Kristy Kuntlapper, to back up his ultimatum. He then hooks up with Bob, an alchoholic author who is trying to cash in on the memoirs of his secret missions. The problem with Bob, besides authority, is that when he gets really drunk and is confronted he turns into "Bob the Monkey". Not a literal monkey, but a man who strips down to nothing, and swings from the chandelier. Oh yeah, while uninating on the crowd. Kev has his usual run of bad luck and loses all his money, and his best bud Bob gets shanghied in his flat by a group of merceneries, would be my guess, who ruthlessly kill him. The final page is Kev heading off to San Francisco unaware of what has happened to Bob, and unaware of what lies in store for him. There's not a whole lot of point to these mini series, but they are a blast to read. He started out as a spinoff of the Authority, but he really doesn't have much to do with them, other than the occasional run in, which ususally leaves him pissing them off.