110. Robert Venditti on Warbird, Ordained and Never Making the Same Comic Twice

Ahead of the release of Warbird #1, Robert Venditti joins to talk about his journey into comics, the fun marketing concepts coming from Bad Idea and telling varied stories. About Robert Venditti: New York Times bestselling author Robert Venditti broke into comics the old-fashioned way—by starting out in the mailroom.

He began working for publisher Top Shelf Productions in 2002, and within a few months sold them the script for The Surrogates , his first comic book series. The story was later adapted into a feature film starring Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames.

Venditti went on to write the original graphic novel The Homeland Directive , as well as the graphic novel adaptations of Rick Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians novels. In 2012, he helped relaunch Valiant Entertainment’s comic book universe by writing their flagship title, X-O Manowar .

About Warbird: Cole is a repo man of the highest caliber, repossessing heavily guarded mega yachts from billionaires, private planes from captains of industry, and everything in-between. If it’s got an engine, he can drive it, ride it, or fly it straight out from under the nose of an army of guards.

Now he’s handed the job of a lifetime. The impossible job.

One that will bring him face to face with the highest stakes. The Russians have stolen aeronautical military secrets from China, France, Germany, The UK, and the US to “Frankenstein” together the ultimate bleeding edge, next-gen fighter jet: The Warbird.

There are only three of them in existence. They are a force of absolute nature—$1.4 billion apiece—dominating every global hotspot from Syria to Ukraine.

And Cole’s been hired to steal one… and destroy the other two. His fee? 10%.

A cool $140 million. But this isn’t a repossession job.

This is outright theft. And failure doesn’t mean jail time and fines—it means a bullet to the back of the head.

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