Red

In 2009, DC Comics and writer Warren Ellis teamed with artist Cully Hamner for a taut, single-issue thriller that reimagines the espionage genre through the lens of a retired, black-ops agent forced back into action. The story follows Paul Moses, a former government operative whose quiet life is shattered when a new generation of assassins targets him, leading to a brutal, high-stakes game of survival. This compact, self-contained story showcases Ellis’s knack for lean, efficient storytelling and Hamner’s gritty, cinematic art, earning it a cult following as a sharp, standalone action comic.