Cobb: Off the Leash

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Publisher IDW Publishing
Schedule Monthly
Format Limited series
Publication date May 2006 - July 2006
No. of issues 3
Creative team
Created by Beau Smith & Eduardo Barreto
Written by Beau Smith
Artist(s) Eduardo Barreto
Colorist(s) Josh Burcham

Cobb: Off The Leash is a comic book mini-series created by Beau Smith and Eduardo Barreto, published by IDW Publishing in 2006. The eponymous protagonist, Frank Cobb, is an original creation for this mini-series.

Comic book publication of comics art

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan, comic books were first popularized in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.

In the field of comic books, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is finite and determined before production, and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues. The term is often used interchangeably with miniseries (mini-series) and maxiseries (maxi-series), usually depending on the length and number of issues. In Dark Horse Comics' definition of a limited series, "This term primarily applies to a connected series of individual comic books. A limited series refers to a comic book series with a clear beginning, middle and end." Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics refer to limited series of two to eleven issues as miniseries and series of twelve issues or more as maxiseries, but other publishers alternate terms.

Beau Smith writer

Beau Smith is an American comic book writer and columnist, best known for his work for DC Comics, Image Comics, IDW Publishing and as vice president of marketing for Eclipse Comics.

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Plot summary

In the story, Frank Cobb is a former Secret Service agent who is lacking in direction as well as an outlet for his protective instincts. After an innocent is threatened, he has a violent confrontation with the aggressors and ends up in a jail cell. Soon, he is given a chance to forge a new direction. This new direction puts him in direct conflict with secret agents, members of the Mafia, and terrorists. Also involved in the story are old friends and beautiful women.

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