By Rob Siebert
Editor, Fanboy Wonder

Image from WWE.com.

Mark Caponi and Shad Gaspard are venturing into the world of comic books, which is quite a departure from their normal world inside a pro wrestling ring.

Shad Gaspard currently wrestles for World Wrestling Entertainment, simply as “Shad.” Until recently, he had a street thug-type persona, working in a tag team called Cryme Tyme. Caponi is a retired wrestler. He worked with WWE in 2004 and 2005 as “Muhammad Hassan,” a Middle Eastern character tired of being stereotyped and held down because of prejudices related to 9/11. Hassan’s persona was extremely controversial, and WWE was eventually forced to drop it altogether, and subsequently release him from his contract.

Image courtesy of Gaspard's MySpace page.

Now, the two have come together as the writers of Assassin & Son: Path of Vengeance, which will be released by Blackline Comics, with the art done by Randy Valiente.

Its release date has yet to be announced, but Gaspard recently posted the cover and synopsis on his MySpace page.

Gaspard called the book a “gritty crime/action adventure revolving around Donovan Braddock, one of the world’s deadliest assassins, and his young son Matthew. Donovan Braddock is part of an elite crime syndicate known as “The Horsemen,” given their name because each member represents one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Donovan Braddock is known as The Horseman of Death, a deadly assassin who is struggling with his conscience and his job. That is until he meets a mysterious woman named Jasmine, and everything changes. He must now choose between the job he was born to do, and his own conscience struggling with his inner demons, as well as the deadliest men of the world’s dark underbelly. He tries to leave his old life behind, but his wife is murdered  in front of him and their young son, leaving them with no choice but to walk as Assassin & Son on their path of vengeance…”

The official web site for Blackline Comics can be found here.

Front page image from ecwfrenchtribute.free.fr.