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The characters were created by Jim Shooter and artist Barry Windsor-Smith and were part of Valiant's offerings in the early 1990s. Now, with Valiant's return to publishing after a decade, and its newly-released titles "X-O Manowar," "Harbinger" and "Bloodshot," the oddly-paired duo is the fourth title for the New York-based publisher. Van Lente said he had no fear about creating and writing "The One Percent" for the new title. When he pitched Valiant about his ideas for the series, it was a concept they embraced. "In later issues they'll fight ninja nuns beneath the Vatican Library and learn the secret connection between Nazi occultists and Tibetan monks," he said of the heroes. "So claiming that the American financial markets are secretly controlled by a Masonic cult of devil-worshippers sacrificing the homeless to the New Testament demon Mammon beneath the NYSE wasn't really that big of a stretch." ___ Online:
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