You may recall I liked Darwyn Cooke’s hard boiled adaptation of Parker. A lot:
“Darwyn Cooke has taken Richard Stark’s hard boiled criminal novel and perfectly distilled it’s elements into possibly the best crime graphic novel you’ll have read for a long time. The art’s exceptional, as you may have expected from Cooke. But this beats anything he’s done up to this point. Gone are the nostalgic renderings of books like New Frontier, he even goes past his previous best of his glorious Spirit tales. This is Cooke’s artistic idea honed to a fine point and executed with incredible, minimalist noir style across the page. It’s a truly beautiful book.”
Well it seems the love for the book has gone far and wide and IDW have been overwhelmed with the demand for the first volume. So much so that, after just two weeks of release, it’s sold out at the distributor level. Not quite as impressive as selling out completely, but it does mean that the copies in stroes are it (for now). Get those first printings of this great book whilst they last. IDW are going back to press and a second printing is due in September.
(via CBR)
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