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The Warriors: Official Movie Adaptation                                           Trade Paperback
Based on a screenplay by Walter Hill & David Shaber!  Awesome!!
Writer: David Atchison
Artists: Tommy Patterson & Chris Dibari
Colorists: Oscar Manuel Martin & Kieran Oats
Letterer: Bill Tortolini
Editors: Joseph Rybandt, Rich Young & Derek Ruiz
Cover by: Chris Dibari

2009 marked the 30th anniversary of the Paramount Pictures film classic, The Warriors, directed by Walter Hill, who later went on to direct 48 Hours, Last Man Standing, and the acclaimed series Deadwood. Now, for the first time, this movie phenomenon has been adapted into a thrilling graphic novel.

The story chronicles one night in the lives of the New York City street gang, the Warriors, and their harrowing journey for survival and redemption. Cyrus, the messianic leader of the city’s largest gang, the Riffs, declares a truce and calls a summit in the Bronx with all the rival gangs in attendance. Cyrus’s vision is to unify all the gangs into one super-organization, one that the cops will never be able to control. But during the meeting, Cyrus is assassinated, and the murder is pinned on a member of the Warriors. With no time to prove their innocence, the Warriors have no choice: they must run – for their lives and for their honor. But it’s a long, long way from the Bronx to Coney Island, especially with an entire city of ruthless thugs swearing vengeance and out for blood.

Story/Spoilers (featuring The Warriors 1979 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs, the most powerful gang in New York City, requests that each of the city’s gangs send nine unarmed delegates to Van Cortlandt Park for a midnight summit. The Warriors, a gang from Coney Island, attend the summit. Cyrus proposes to the assembled crowd a citywide truce and alliance that would allow the gangs to control the city together, since they collectively outnumber the police by three to one.

Most of the gang members applaud this idea, but Luther, the unbalanced and sadistic leader of the Rogues, shoots Cyrus dead as police officers arrive to raid the summit. In the ensuing chaos, Luther realizes that one of the Warriors, Fox, appears to suspect him, and makes a false accusation which leads the vengeful Riffs to attack the “Warlord”, Cleon. Meanwhile, the other Warriors escape, unaware that they have been implicated in Cyrus’s killing. The Riffs put out a hit on the Warriors through a radio DJ. Swan, the “War Chief,” takes charge of the group as they try get home, though the Warriors’s main enforcer and brawler Ajax disagrees with Swan being leader over him.

The Turnbull ACs spot the Warriors and try to run them down with a modified school bus but the Warriors escape and board an elevated train. On the ride to Coney Island, the train is stopped by a building fire alongside the tracks, stranding the Warriors in Tremont. Setting out on foot, they encounter the Orphans, who are insecure about their low status in the gang hierarchy as they were excluded from Cyrus’s meeting. After Mercy, the girlfriend of the Orphans’ leader, instigates a confrontation, Swan throws a Molotov cocktail and the Warriors run to the nearest subway station. Impressed and desperate to escape her depressed neighborhood, Mercy follows the Warriors.

When the group arrives at the 96th Street and Broadway station in Manhattan, they are pursued by police and separated. Three of them, Vermin, Cochise and Rembrandt, escape by boarding a subway car. Fox, struggling with a police officer, is thrown onto the tracks and is fatally hit by a passing train as Mercy flees the scene. Swan, Ajax, Snow and Cowboy are chased by the Baseball Furies into Riverside Park but defeat them in a brawl. After the fight, Ajax sees a lone woman sitting on a park bench and leaves the group despite Swan’s objections. When Ajax becomes sexually aggressive, the woman, revealed to be an undercover police officer, handcuffs him to the bench and arrests him.

Upon arriving at Union Square, Vermin, Cochise and Rembrandt are seduced by an all-female gang called the Lizzies and invited into their hideout. They narrowly escape the Lizzies’ subsequent attack, learning in the process that the gangland community believes the Warriors murdered Cyrus. Acting as a lone scout, Swan decides to return to the 96th Street station, where Mercy joins him (although he spurns her promiscuity). After reaching the Union Square station, they reunite with the remaining Warriors and engage in a fight with a roller-skating gang, the Punks. Mercy proves herself formidable in combat. A member of a different gang visits the Riffs and tells them that he saw Luther shoot Cyrus.

At dawn, the Warriors finally reach Coney Island, only to find Luther and the Rogues waiting for them. Swan challenges Luther to single combat but Luther pulls a gun. Swan dodges his shot and throws a switchblade (taken from one of the Punks) into Luther’s wrist, disarming him. The Riffs arrive, acknowledging the Warriors’ courage and skill before apprehending the Rogues. As the Riffs descend upon him, Luther screams. The radio DJ announces that “the big alert has been called off” and salutes the Warriors with a song, “In the City.” The film ends with Swan, Mercy and the rest of the gang walking down a Coney Island beach, illuminated by the rising sun.

Trade Paperback reprints/collects: The Warriors Movie Adaptation (2009 – 2011) Issues #1-5.  Dabel Brother’s Productions / Dynamite Entertainment

Trade Paperback is bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publishers: Dabel Brother’s Productions / Dynamite Entertainment
Publication Date: 2011
Format: FC, 128 pages, TPB, 10.25″ x 6.75″
ISBN-10: 1606901591
ISBN-13: 9781606901595

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is in Very Fine to Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Warriors collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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