Codebreakers - the comic
It looks like there's now a comic being pubished that stars cryptanalysts. It's Codebreakers from BOOM! Studios, the same people that are famous for, well, I've actually never heard of them before, but they're probably known for something.
Here's the summary of what happens in the first issue of this comic:
Busting foreign spies on domestic soil. Cracking the code on drug and human trafficking. Shutting down the mob. They are the elite Cryptanalysis Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, examining manually encrypted documents and records of illegal enterprises, providing expert testimony, forensic assistance, and identification of terrorism, foreign intelligence, and criminal activities in support of federal, state, local, and international law enforcement investigations and prosecutions... Ciphers. Codes. Encryption. Passwords. Meet the best of the best at puzzling out the truth and protecting all of us from those that would steal information in ways that can shatter the global community and kill. But what happens to the Cryptanalysis unit when one of their own goes missing? Is it a puzzle the puzzle-solvers can't solve? And will this cipher reveal things about... themselves? In the mode of previous BOOM! series like POTTER'S FIELD, UNTHINKABLE, blockbusters like NATIONAL TREASURE and DAVINCI CODE, and espionage comics from our esteemed competition QUEEN AND COUNTRY and WHITEOUT!
I don't know how good this comic is, but I'd guess that my favorite depiction of cryptographers will still be The Amateur, the 1981 movie in which a mild-mannered CIA cryptographer blackmails the CIA into training him to hunt down and kill the terrorists that killed his girlfriend. Don't mess with cryptographers.





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