All-New 24 Comic Book Gives Fans Their Jack Bauer Fix

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All-New 24 Comic Book Gives Fans Their Jack Bauer Fix

IDW Publishing launches new 24 one-shot, which follow Bauer's exploits pursuing terrorists in Alaska


San Diego, CA (February 15, 2008)-Fans can still get their Jack Bauer fix. This month, all-new 24 stories will keep readers on the edge of their seats as IDW Publishing releases 24: Cold Warriors.

In this 48-page one-shot, Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian are far away from their comfort zone of Los Angeles. Instead, they find themselves at a remote communications station in Alaska during a huge snow storm where they try to stop a Russian terrorist from Jack's past who wants to bring down all wireless communications in the U.S.. "These terrorists are former Soviet KGB agents from the old war," says Andrew Steven Harris, 24 editor for IDW. "They're so dangerous that after the end of the Cold War, even their own government tried to assassinate them."

"Our partnership with IDW has been very gratifying for our division as well as for fans of the show," stated Virginia King, Vice President of U.S. Licensing for Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising. "The quality of the writing, the creation of original story arcs, and top-drawer illustrations are all superb and do justice to a powerful show. The graphic novels have helped fill the void as fans await the return of the show to broadcast."

24: Cold Warriors was written by Beau Smith, who also wrote and created Cobb: Off The Leash and Wynonna Earp. It features art from Steve Bryant, who did the art for Athena Voltaire.

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[Jared]

Good news, some 24 is better than none. I think there's two TPBs out now, Operation Nightfall and another collection.

When does this story take place? Between seasons that have already aired?

[BeauSmith]

Yes, between seasons that have already aired. Bill Buchanan is still in charge of CTU during this one. The thing that I tried to do was to make this really payoff for die-hard 24 fans with continuity and give them something very special with this mission AND to also make this accessible for people that have never seen any episodes of 24. I've been told by the powers that be that I pulled it off.

I hope you enjoy.

Thanks,

Beau

[ZT4]

With 24 out to pasture until 2009, this will compensate nicely. You can tell about a billion things in between seasons six and seven.

[Jared]

Who knows if the show will ever get Mia Kirshner long enough to really give mercenary-extraordinaire Mandy a suitable wrap-up, but if not, they could always do that in a comic.

Not that there's anything wrong with renegade KGB agents, of course.

[BeauSmith]

ZT4: You really make a great point there. That's the way we looked at it going in. At the time we had no idea how long the strike would go on , so we wanted to make sure that if it was a long time that we could bring some 24 entertainment to fans that they would enjoy and at the same time take the thread that had been laid out and interweave it with some new material. We also looked at it as a perfect jumping on point for anyone that had never seen 24, but loved action/thrillers.


Jared: I think and hope you'll like the new character I came up with Amy Seelaki. She is Jack's Alaskan CTU counter-part and does have a connection to Jack's and another member of L.A CTU's past. The quote I gave Bill Buchanan in the story when he finds out that Jack and Amy will be working together was

"Jack Bauer and Amy Seelaki? That's like two ice cubes in the same glass fighting to see who can keep the water cold first."

I hope you enjoy the character.

Tanks,

Beau