Category: Crime

Who Knows? Matt Wagner Knows!

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Matt Wagner has signed on to write The Shadow: Year One for Dynamite Comics.  Although The Shadow has been around for the better part of a century appearing in pulps, comics, and movies, his origin has been sketchy at best.  Wagner who is a fan of the character plans to change that. 

  • “THE SHADOW has long been one of my absolute favorite established characters and I’m thrilled to finally get the chance to contribute to his continuing adventures,” says Matt Wagner.  ”I’m getting to help define The Shadow’s mysterious origins in a Year One story arc!  For all his published history in both the pulps and comics, as well as his radio adventures, there’s surprisingly no depiction of his very first adventures as the dark-clad Master of Men.  This series will explore the events that first drew Kent Allard/Lamont Cranston back to the States, how he began to assemble his vast network of agents and how he first adopted the famous black hat and cloak as his alter-ego’s disguise-secrets that, up until now…only The Shadow knew!” 

Thanks and a tip of our not-so-famous black hat to ComicsBeat.com for the original post.


“The Goon” Movie… Let’s Kickstart This Sucker!

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Ten years ago I wrote a post talking about an awesome new comic series called The Goon.  For more than a decade,  Eric Powell [who created, writes and draws] The Goon has continued to produce a comic loved by fans of all ages.

So it was no surprise when, four years ago, The Goon was optioned to become a feature film. 

About a year later we got to see a couple of production images showing how The Goon movie would look. 

Two years ago we were treated to a movie poster for The Goon which was listed as “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You.” 

A year ago we got to glimpse test footage from The Goon.   Each step of the way, the hope for an actual full length feature length Goon film seemed closer to becoming a reality.  Unfortunately, even with David [Se7en] Fincher on board, the financing wasn’t there.

Now thanks to Kickstarter, all that can change.  I’m in.  Will you join me?  The Goon movie… Let’s Kickstart this sucker!

Francavilla’s Black Beetle is Coming!

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If, like me, you’re a fan of Francesco Francavilla’s art and stories, you’ll be happy to hear that his character the Black Beetle will premiere in his first mini-series starting in January.  It’ll be called No Way Out.

If you just can’t wait until January, this December the three part Black Beetle story, Night Shift, will be collected into a single volume.

Big congrats to Francesco!

Scene of the Crime

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You know I’m diggin’ that Scene of the Crime cover by Michael Lark and Sean Phillips.  It’s for a new, over-sized hardcover reprint of the crime/noir graphic story that Lark and Phillips did with writer, Ed Brubaker.

Scene of the Crime will be out on November 14th, but you should let your local comic shop manager know now.

 

Bullet to the Head Trailer is Here

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The Bullet to the Head trailer has finally arrived.  Directed by Walter Hill and starring Sly Stallone, Bullet to the Head is the big screen adaptation of the French crime graphic novel of the same name.

We’ve been following the progress of this film since it was first announced in 2008.  Having Bullet to the Head make it to the big screen with Sly in the lead is too cool.  Hopefully the film will be as well.

Joe Carnahan Has No Fear

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 Joe Carnahan, [the writer/director known for Narc, Smokin’ Aces and The Grey] put together a short video to give a feel for what he’d do if given an opportunity to bring Daredevil to the big screen.  The video combines clips from several movies, with art from Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli’s run on Daredevil as well as some sweet Curtis Mayfield music thrown in to add a bit of spice.

Man, I’d love to see what Carnahan could do with the right cast and budget.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like this will happen.

Thanks and a tip o’ Matt Murdock’s shades to CBR.com.

Brad Pitt is Killing Them Softly

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The new trailer for the crime thriller Killing Them Softly is perfect.  I can not wait to see this movie.

Killing Them Softly is based on a George V. Higgins crime novel and set in New Orleans, and follows professional criminal, Jackie Cogan as he investigates the robbery of a high stakes, mob-protected, poker game. It stars  Brad Pitt, Ray Luotta, James Gandolfini and Sam Sheppard and opens October 7th.

I’ll save you a seat.

Howard Chaykin is a Marked Man

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Crime fiction / Howard Chaykin fans, here’s a heads-up:  Chaykin’s Marked Man graphic novel  [he wrote and did the art for it] that was serialized in Dark Horse Presents is set to return in a hard cover edition.  As you can tell from the book’s description, this is not for kids:

“To the casual observer, Mark LaFarge has it going on. He’s got a beautiful wife, cute kids, a McMansion in the South Bay . . .The guy is the living embodiment of the American dream. But nothing is ever as it seems. LaFarge is a career criminal who’s never done an honest day’s work in his life . . . and that life of crime, completely separate from the life he presents to the world, is about to catch up with him. And there will be blood . . . a great deal of blood.”

My pre-order is set to go!