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The Parker Problem….

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Here’s the thing. I love Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series. Love it – and both beautiful hardback volumes – Parker: The Hunter and Parker: The Outfit are on the bookshelf. I thought the idea in summer 2010 to put the first chapter of The Outfit out as a preview comic – The Man With The Getaway Face [...]

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Parker Book 2: The Outfit. Perfection. Cold, violent, perfection.

Monday, November 15, 2010

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Richard Stark’s Parker – Volume 2 : The Outfit Graphic novel adaptation by Darwyn Cooke, based on the novels of Donald Westlake/ Richard Stark. IDW Publishing Total, absolute, pure, wonderful noir escapism – this second Parker graphic novel from Darwyn Cooke builds on everything he did in the first volume (The Hunter - reviewed here), where he [...]

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Darwyn Cooke’s Parker goes to reprint…

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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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 [...]

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Parker – we’ve got your noir right here. And by god, it’s wonderful.

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke IDW Publishing. Bloody hell, this is good. 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 [...]

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