Red/WMG

Comic!Paul Moses is an older Agent 47.
Well, he's a ruthless, pragmatic ex-assassin, and he's bald. The people giving him the contracts were the CIA all along, and he only found that out in the later years of his career. Eventually he has a change of heart and decides to quit, leading to the events of the comic. The only thing missing is the barcode...
 * Tattoos can be removed fairly easily.

The Five-Man Band are not only "Retired, Extremely Dangerous", but they also worked for RED.

 * Martin Boggs at the very least definitely has a lot of Soldier in him.

Joe is not dead.
Notice that the sniper who kills him is never identified? Notice, also, that Victoria has a record for shooting people in the chest when she doesn't want to kill them. Just saying.
 * As much as I hate myself for finding a way to refute this, she wouldn't have been toasting to Joe's memory on Ivan's porch if this was true.

The Sequel will involve Sean Connery playing a retired British agent

 * Come on, you know it would be awesome.