The Hood
Marvel MAX.
Blood from Stones (6-issue mini; w Brian K. Vaughan; a Kyle Hotz; hardcover edition on right). [From
Marvel Comics: Nineteen-year-old Parker Robbins couldn't afford college,
but he was able to buy a ski maska nd a Lorcin .380 handgun. After dropping
out of high school, he hoped to follow in the footsteps of his late father,
a soldier in the Kingpin's vast criminal empire - but life in the mob isn't
always as glorious as the movies make it seem. With a pregnant girlfriend,
a demanding mistress and an institutionalized mother to care for, Parker
can barely make ends meet. So when the small-time crook finds mystical apparel
that grants him strange powers, he elects to forgo organized crime... for
the more prestigious and financially rewarding world of costumed villainy.]
