If you were a big fan of the 2015 spy caper, Kingsman, you’ll no doubt be looking forward to the imminent release of, Kingsman: Golden Circle. Did you know that Harry and Eggsy’s screen adventures are adapted from a comic, though?

Secret Service (later renamed Kingsman: Secret Service to keep in line with the movie adaptation) is a spy adventure comic book for the 21st century. – ForReadingAddicts

“While many were introduced to the Kingsman franchise in when the first movie was released in 2014, it existed a couple of years before that. The Secret Service was a comic written from Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, and it inspired the events of the first film…Following the release of the first Golden Circle trailer last night, Mark Millar announced that another Kingsman comic would be coming in September. He didn’t offer much detail on the project, other than the fact that it’s called Kingsman: The Red Diamond.” – Comicbook.com

Mark Millar is a Scottish comic book writer, known for his work on Kick-Ass, The Authority, The Ultimates, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, The Secret Service, etc. Comic panels and frames from other Millar titles, Jupiter’s Circle and Jupiter’s Legacy, featured in the Frank Quitely exhibition I posted about a few weeks ago. Glasgow-born Quitely being yet another highly talented and successful Scot working in the comic industry.

Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with Godfather of British comics, Alan Moore, on titles like, Watchmen.

Let’s hear it for our British-born born comic artists and writers! Support local talent! 😀