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Button Man
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Button Man is a comic strip created for leading British comic 2000 AD, written by John Wagner and illustrated by Arthur Ranson.
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Harry Exton, ex-mercenary, is a "Button Man", a hired killer pitted against other killers in an underground sport. Each works for a mysterious "Voice", a rich man of unknown identity. The object of the game is to kill your opponent, or capture him and take his marker - the first two joints of a finger. Button Men who lose three fingers are shot anyway. The "voices" profit from the game by gambling on the outcome, and a ruthless killer like Harry Exton can make a modestly wealthy man extremely rich. Exton decides to quit, only to discover that leaving the Button Man game isn't so easy.
Button Man ran for three series, and remains one of the best-selling collections of 2000 AD strips (other than Judge Dredd) ever published. A new series entitled "The Hitman's Daughter" has been announced for 2006. [1]
The series three outtings, all written by John Wagner with art by Arthur Ranson, are:
- Button Man:
- "Book I: The Killing Game" (in 2000 AD #780-791, 1992)
- "Book II: Confession" (in 2000 AD #904-919, 1994)
- "Book 3" (in 2000 AD prog 2001 & #1223-1233, 2001)
There have been a couple of collections of Book I:
- Kitchen Sink Press (1995, ISBN 0-87816-276-3)
- Rebellion (2003, ISBN 1-904265-05-7)
Movie rights are owned by Dreamworks, which has co-opted the producers of Wagner's A History Of Violence. The film is due for release in 2008. [2]