Comic Con 2010 - Human Target star Mark Valley gets boss and tools

Comic Con 2010 is full of artists who created amazing graphic novels (and this visit is sponsored by The Kings Inn Hotel in San Diego). And in this digital age, combined with Hollywood's hunger for story content, some of those graphic novels become hit TV shows, and fuel the growth of Comic Con. One of those shows is FOX Television's Human Target, starring Mark Valley as Christopher Chance.

Mark Valley 

I talked briefly with Mark about the upcoming season and as he was being mobbed for pictures by fans after his appearance at William Shatner's show about MyOuterSpace.com at TweetHouse on The USS Midway. Valley said he just arrived at Comic Con, but there were "more people this year," and the ones present love him in Human Target.

Human Target is the story of San Francisco-based private detective and bodyguard Christopher Chance, who embeds himself in the lives of clients seeking protective services to become "the human target." In the first season, Christopher Chance did things more by the seat of his pants without any real supervision. In the second season, all that changes.

Asked what's new for season two, Valley said "Well, I get a new boss." That person is reported to be English actress Indira Varma, who according to EW.com plays Iisa, his team leader, a who is "sophisticated, driven and principled. She is a widow with a vast fortune that she uses to help better the world. Ilsa finds Chance’s [Mark Valley] lethal methods and his past deeds unacceptable, but she will learn to appreciate (slowly) the altruistic benefits that he has to offer. Ilsa is witty, sexy, clearly in charge and doesn’t take any nonsense from anyone. Chance has met his match."

How Valley will take to his new boss is the mystery, because when I asked Valley, jokingly, if he "can do boss" he responded, "well, we'll see."

But beyond Ilsa, Valley told me he gets new gadgets to play with, of various types. But no new car. I suggested a car, and Valley said "Yea. A car. A talking car?"

It's clear Human Target and Mark Valley / Christopher Chance are moving more in the direction of James Bond. Let's hope the show keeps its quirky style in the process.