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Matthew Rosenberg and Stefano Landini’s We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us Ends with the Tease of a New Series

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Writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Stefano Landini have thrilled readers with their action-packed espionage thriller We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us, which shattered sales records and garnered widespread praise this year. 

Now, in conjunction with the series’ sixth and final issue, the creative duo reveals that Alistair Rook will return in In Good Hands With Bad Company. 

We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us picks up when 13-year-old Annalise’s mad-scientist father is killed by the world’s greatest spy, leaving her all alone in the world with only her dead dad’s robot bodyguard as a companion. Will she try to lead a normal life for the first time ever…or seek revenge and maybe overthrow the world order in the process? Over six issues, readers have followed an unparalleled journey of super spies and pseudoscience, growing up and global domination, regret and retribution. Today, they are rewarded on the final page of this sixth and final issue.

For those who missed this James Bond meets Leon: The Professional  series which thrilled readers over six action packed issues, We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us arrives in a collected edition (ISBN: 9781534333369) at your favorite comic book shop on Wednesday, December 24 and independent bookstores, Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones two weeks later on Tuesday, January 20. 

We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Omnibus.

Details on In Good Hands With Bad Company to be further revealed soon.

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Preview: We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us #5

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We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us #5

(W) Matthew Rosenberg (A) Stefano Landini

Betrayal! Despite a heroic sacrifice intended to buy her freedom from V.E.I.L., Annalise has become a prisoner in Chuma Castle. Now she must face her greatest challenge yet — Etiquette Classes!

The spy thriller slash touching family saga from MATTHEW ROSENBERG (WHAT’S THE FURTHEST PLACE FROM HERE?) and STEFANO LANDINI (Prodigy: Slaves of Mars) nears its unpredictable conclusion — and you’ll never guess what’s coming. Because it’s unpredictable.

We're Taking Everyone Down with Us #5

We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #5 Gives Us Some Entertaining Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

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Betrayal! Despite a heroic sacrifice intended to buy her freedom from V.E.I.L., Annalise has become a prisoner in Chuma Castle. Now she must face her greatest challenge yet—Etiquette Classes! We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #5 gives us a better idea of the secret about Annalise that’s been teased as she gets to know her mother.

Written by Matthew Rosenberg, We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us has been a rocket launched series that both loves and skewers the spy/action genre. It’s full of brilliant, crazy characters, all of which we want to find out more about. At the center of it all is Annalise, whose father was killed by a superspy and whose father transferred his consciousness into a robot body. Now, she’s been delivered to her mother which she hasn’t seen since she was a baby and to say there’s family dysfunction is an understatement.

We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #5 is another brilliant and fun issue in a series that has delivered that with every issue. The writing is hilarious. It’s packed with visual gags. There’s more than one wtf moment. It’s an issue that’s just hit after hit as it goes through bouncing around its chaotic cast.

And through all of that insanity, Rosenberg delivers teases and hints about Annalise. The series has danced around the reveal for some time, but it’s this issue where we get a better idea as to what’s going on. Add in a dive into the relationship between her parents, and her father and her mother’s assistant, and you get an issue that’s full of moments that stand out.

The art by Stefano Landini is great. With color by Jason Wordie and lettering by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, the comic relies on visual site gags as much as anything else. A character is revealed to be wearing less than an ideal amount of clothes at odd times, the looks they give each other while on a video chat, there’s so much in the art that builds off of and enhances Rosenberg’s script. It’s visuals feel like they come from the world of Zucker movies like Airplane and The Naked Gun as much as they do James Bond films.

We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #5 is another great issue in a series that has delivered with every one. It’s a comic that is exciting to read as you never know what’s going on next, what will be revealed, and what site gags await. It’s fun in every way and hopefully fun we’ll be seeing more of in the future.

Story: Matthew Rosenberg Art: Stefano Landini
Color: Jason Wordie Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

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Espionage, Evil Empires, and a Teen Caught in the Center of it All – We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us gets Collected in December

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Bestselling writer Matthew Rosenberg and fan-favorite artist Stefano Landini bring an action-packed espionage thriller to shelves in We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us. This standalone graphic novel will be published in Winter by Image Comics.

James Bond meets The Island of Doctor Moreau in this story about a young girl who discovers her father isn’t the hero she believed—but one of the most dangerous super-spy villains on the planet.

After her mad-scientist father is killed by the world’s greatest spy, 13-year-old Annalise is left all alone in the world with only her dead dad’s robot bodyguard as a companion. Now Annalise has a choice: try to lead a normal life for the first time ever…or seek revenge and maybe overthrow the world order in the process.

We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us trade paperback (ISBN: 9781534333369) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, November 26 and independent bookstores, Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, December 9. 

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We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 is Another Fantastic Issue Packed with Humor and Surprises

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They say that before you begin a journey of revenge, you should dig two graves, but Annalise and her robot are going to need a lot more than that. Way more. Even more than you’re thinking. Also in this issue: a guy gets his head punched off! We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 delivers a great mix of action and comedy with a surprise ending that’ll change up the dynamics.

Written by Matthew Rosenberg, We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 features so much of what you’d expect from a comic from Rosenberg. The series as a whole has come off as a love letter to superhero comics and spy tales, especially those that are rather silly in their nature (we’re looking at you James Bond of the 80s). The characters are all larger than life and the action about as subtle as a nuclear explosion.

But, Rosenberg makes sure to make his comics more than just surface level pop-culture entertainment. We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 is an example of that as the relationship between Annalise and her robot protector grows and an introduction at the end adds a level of family drama. Rosenberg gives us characters who are far more than their focus on revenge and far more than creative ways to fight and blow things up. This is a story of a young woman who has had a really messed up family life and isn’t quite accepting of that.

Stefano Landini‘s art continues the blunt fun of the comic delivering both the action and even the drama with an exaggerated glee. With Jason Wordie on color and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, the art continues to be fantastic with a blend of inspiration that creates a world that we want to see more of. Other than one panel where a robot hand looks to be a human hand, the comic’s art has been on point with every issue delivering a frenetic style that perfectly matches the tone of the series’ story.

We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 is another fantastic issue with a blend of concepts and worlds that creates an entertaining series we want to see more of. It’s nailed every single issue with a glee at its over the top aspect of it all but also knows at its core is a family drama that really brings it all together.

Story: Matthew Rosenberg Art: Stefano Landini
Color: Jason Wordie Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Design: Becca Carey Editing: Steve Foxe, Eric Harburn
Story: 8.4 Art: 8.4 Overall: 8.4 Recommendation: Buy

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We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us dials up the action and heads back to print

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This week’s new release of We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us by Matthew Rosenberg and artist Stefano Landini has sold out in a snap completely at the distributor level. It is being rushed back to print this week by Image Comics in order to keep up with escalating reorder activity.

In We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #3, Annalise is learning that sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy. But maybe when you have a robot-man who will kill for you, you don’t need many friends. The action-packed tale of espionage and evil empires, generational trauma and global power struggles, and the little girl caught in between continues here.

The We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us series follows 13-year-old Annalise who’s left all alone in the world after her mad-scientist father is killed by the world’s greatest spy. Now, alongside her dead dad’s robot bodyguard, Annalise has a choice: try to lead a normal life for the first time ever…or seek revenge and maybe overthrow the world order in the process.

Available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, June 25:

  • We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #3, second printing – Lunar Code 0325IM895
  • We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 Cover A by Landini – Lunar Code 0425IM446
  • We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 Cover B by Chris Matthews – Lunar Code 0425IM447
  • We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 Cover C by Carson Thorn – Lunar Code 0425IM448
  • We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #4 Cover 1:25 copy incentive by Andy MacDonald – Lunar Code 0425IM449
We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #3, second printing

We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #2 is packed with action, tension, and laughs

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We're Taking Everyone Down With Us #2

War has come to Annalise’s secluded island home. Luckily for her, one of her father’s robot-men found her before the enemy forces did. The robot’s only directive is to get Annalise off the island alive. But she has another plan… The explosive saga of love and revenge, mad scientists and super-spies, and the child caught in between continues here! We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #2 continues what was a fantastic debut and has us even more excited for what comes next.

Action, drama, laughs, We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #2 has it all as the chaos of the first issue plays out and Annalise attempts to not just figure out what the hell is going on but also find her dad. Around Annalise are clueless soldiers not sure who to kill, robots ordered to protect her, fire, explosions, and more. We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #2 is packed with not just more action and humor but also revealing who Annalise is up against the group after her dad.

Writer Matthew Rosenberg continues the excellent series and balances not just the chaos of battle but also introducing the dipshit heroes after Annalise’s father. Rosenberg introduces a cast that’s full of personality, both good and bad. They’re a dysfunctional group with every member featuring quirks that’ll have you shaking your head along with laughing. It’s a fantastic dive into characters and introduction that keeps the comic flowing and pays off more and more as the comic progresses. It also has you cheering on Annalise even more. The first issue made us feel bad for her and the relationship with her father. The second issue has you wondering how this group of idiots killed her father and you wanting her to get her revenge. Partially because she deserves it in some ways but also because the group she’ll go up against are just people you want to punch.

The art be Stefano Landini helps put the punch in the humor. Moments that are already funny become even more so with Landini’s art that just emphasizes the absurdity of the moment. Two soldiers arguing over what’s going on and what defines a “cannibal monkey” plays even better based on body language. Landini is helped by Jason Wordie‘s colors and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou‘s lettering which each nail down the moment and rollercoaster of a ride that is the story. The art really elevates the laughs as well as the emotional punches with small details that add to the reading experience.

We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us #2 is a fantastic second issue that has us pumped to see what comes next. It has it all and most importantly an entertaining cast of characters that has us wanting to see more of this world. Hopefully, we get exactly that and Rosenberg expands the series, mostly so we can get more of this quality.

Story: Matthew Rosenberg Art: Stefano Landini
Color: Jason Wordie Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Story: 8.5 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.5 Recommendation: Buy

Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: Zeus Comics – Kindle

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