Scout Comics and Sheldon Allen to donate profits from CRUCIFIED tpb to NAACP

By Carlos Morales

on June 5, 2020

For the rest of June, Scout’s profits for all individual issues and trade paperback editions of writer/creator Sheldon Allen’s groundbreaking series CRUCIFIED will be donated to the NAACP.

“I wrote Crucified ten years ago as a response to racial injustice and inequality,” Allen says, “And ten years later, nothing has changed. While the jaded realist residing in me doesn’t see much improving in another ten years, the scorned idealist buried even deeper in my soul screams otherwise. And so, I commend Scout Comics for stepping up and putting their money where their mouth is. It’s one thing to give lip service saying you’re committed to change; it’s another to actually partake in the change you claim you wish to see. History is watching.”

ABOUT CRUCIFIED:

The world’s deadliest contract killer just received his next target: A man some believe to be the modern Jesus Christ. Lucas Blank, a gun for hire, finds himself contracted by a powerful NGO to execute a figure known only as the Messiah, who recently stopped a Los Angeles race riot with a single word. Lucas is a professional and it’s just another job until he has his finger on the trigger and is about to complete the job, that is, until the Messiah sees him and he suffers a crisis of conscience. The NGO becomes more desperate than ever to see the Messiah dead at any costs, including sacrificing those that Lucas holds most dear. One bullet. One kill. A billion consequences.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells.

(W) Sheldon Allen (A) Armin Ozdic

(W) Sheldon Allen (A) Armin Ozdic

(W) Sheldon Allen (A) Armin Ozdic

For the first time in his lucrative and deadly career, Lucas fails to complete an assignment. With his mysterious employers enraged, Lucas seeks possible answers from a most unexpected person, while Jessica receives troubling news related to one of her assets in Mexico.

(W) Sheldon Allen (A) Armin Ozdic

Jesus had The Apostles, and The Christ has The Twelve – a dedicated collection of true believers whose sordid and sinister pasts Lucas learns about from a trusted source. Meanwhile, Sujad exacts revenge on a familiar face, and a momentary lapse in judgment causes Larry to reconsider a previous offer.

(W) Sheldon Allen (A) Armin Ozdic (CA) Mauricio Campetella

Jessica Newbold is not the kind of woman you want to cross. When Lucas fails to carry out the assassination she enlisted his services for, she personally sends the revered hitman a lethal message to demonstrate her extreme disappointment. On the other side of town, The Christ receives an offer to perform an exorcism in Haiti that is just too tempting for him to resist.

(W) Sheldon Allen (A) Armin Ozdic (CA) Mauricio Campetella

Repent, the end is nigh! Lucas finally has The Christ in his grasp, and this time, he’s all about business. Will he hesitate to pull the trigger again, or will he do the deed and earn another hefty payday? The startling final issue to Crucified‘s first arc has arrived.