I'm going to mention this a bit over the next month, and you'll see this cover re-posted bigger and bigger as we go along, so mark December 24th on your calendar. Not because it's Christmas Eve but because Christmas Eve day is when Vigilante #1 finally reaches the comic shops.

Vigilante is my new DC comic and one I'm very proud of. If you read my Nightwing book last year you've already met Vig and you know there's some mysteries concerning him. When I was asked to bring back Vig by DC honcho, Dan Didio, I spent a lot of time coming up with a new and surprising back story so he won't fit into the "My family was murdered and now I seek revenge" school of vigilante characters, everyone from Batman and Spider-Man to Punisher and even the last incarnation of Vigilante I wrote back in the 80s. This Vigilante's family didn't die. In fact he didn't have a family (wife or kids) to have died. You also may have noticed that we never showed you Vigilante's face in Nightwing; that was deliberate. You'll see his face in Vigilante #1. But not really. You'll find out his name in that issue, too. But not really. This Vigilante is a series of mysteries beyond the evil plots he's dealing with, and clues will be dropped along the way as to who he is.

I've wanted to write a crime comic for the longest time. As proof I was the Marvel editor-in-chief way back in the 70s who suggested we use Spidey villain, The Punisher, as the lead in his own black and white magazine. Vigilante is a crime comic dressed up in bullet proof armor.

I've got a lot of plans with the book that I hope will surprise folk, so I do hope you'll find time on Christmas Eve day to trudge down to your comics shop and pick up the book. Or better yet, go to your shop now and place an order for them to hold until you can pick it up a day or two later.

As I say, I'll remind folk a few more times as the release date approaches. But thanks in advance to all those who place their orders early. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

And lest I forget, the art by Rick Leonardi is simply fantastic. I could not be happier.

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