Category: Crime

Mike Zeck Cover Variant for The Punisher #1 Relaunch!

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Mike Zeck’s Punisher art above will be a variant cover for Marvel’s relaunch of The Punisher…

“We’re going to get back to Frank Castle with a handgun and a knife, stalking the streets of New York, and getting his hands dirty. But we’re also going to see a man who has changed from his time in the armor,” said Rosenberg. “He developed a taste for bigger game and larger targets, and he’s not going to give that up easily. So in a sense it’s back to basics – but on a bigger scale.”

Source: Newsarama.

The “Evil Genius” Trailer is Here!

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Check out the trailer for Evil Genius.

Kind of pulls you in, huh?  It sure did for me.

Of course I’m old enough to remember the case.  Bank robber becomes surrounded by cops while trying to make his escape.  He tells the cops that he was kidnapped and the kidnappers placed the device around his neck.  It is a bomb set to blow his head off if he doesn’t rob the bank.  Although cops are skeptical, they keep their distance.  Guy begs for help… As cops work out what to do, the bomb goes off killing the guy.

Who was behind this?  Was the guy kidnapped or part of the robbery gone wrong?  I guess we’ll find out if we tune in.  I know I will.

“Assault on Precinct 13” Poster by Martin Ansin

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Once a week Joblo.com posts Awesome Art We’ve Found Around the Net.  As you can imagine, they post awesome art that they, well, you get the idea.

I always enjoy seeing what JoBlo has found because with each post they list the artist’s name and a link to more of his/her art.  That’s where I saw this  Assault on Precinct 13 (by Martin Ansin) poster.

Ace Atkins Talks Crossroad Blues and a Lot More!

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Ace Atkins is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist who has written 23 novels.  Perhaps best known for being selected to carry on Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, Atkins has series characters of his own (Nick Travers and Quinn Colson).  If you dig his Spenser yarns, then you ought to give Travers and Colson a go.

Crossroad Blues is Atkins first Nick Travers novel.

The disappearance of a college professor investigating rumors of previously unknown recordings by renowned blues musician Robert Johnson, murdered more than fifty years earlier, leads football player-turned-blues historian Nick Travers along a dangerous trail as he seeks to unravel the dark truths behind an old mystery.

Crossroad Blues has been adapted into a graphic novel by Atkins along with artist Marco Finnegan.

“Thrillkill” by Jim Stenstrum and Neal Adams!

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If you’re not familiar with Thrillkill by Jim Stenstrum and Neal Adams, you’re in for a real treat.  Originally published in Creepy #75, by Warren in November 1975,

Thrillkill is one of Neal Adams’ most beautifully illustrated stories and Stenstrum was ahead of the times looking at mass murders.  (You have to remember that they were almost unheard of in 1975.  These days, they happen regularly.)

Click over to The Bristol Board to see the full Thrillkill story in a format that’s easy to read.

Lawrence Block’s Eight Million Ways to Die Adapted & Illustrated by John K. Snyder III

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John K. Snyder III has adapted Lawrence Block’s Eight Million Ways to Die into a graphic novel and it is looking great!  There have been 17 novels about Block’s unlicensed detective, Matthew Scudder, and Eight Million Ways to Die is a great place to start.  Here’s the skinny…

In crime-ravaged 1980s New York, a troubled ex-cop turned unlicensed detective takes on his most dangerous case, hunting down a serial killer-hitman, and ultimately coming face-to-face with his deadliest enemy…

Matthew Scudder is dying, one bottle at a time. A young prostitute named Kim Dakkinen is dying too, her life measured out in tricks. She wanted out, had asked for Scudder’s help, but suddenly she wasn’t dying anymore, she was just dead. The former cop turned P.I. promised to protect her, but he failed. Now his atonement is to find her killer. But the secrets in the dead hooker’s past are dirtier than her living, and searching for a killer in a city where everyone’s a victim is a good way to make the role permanent.

 I’m a huge Lawrence Block fan and his Scudder novels are my favorite Block yarns.  I’m looking forward to Snyder’s adaptation.  If you’re still on the fence, check out this interview with Snyder where he talks about bringing the novel to life!