Category: Comics

Mike Zeck’s Debut on Master of Kung Fu!

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Years ago, I used to own the original art to the page shown above by Mike Zeck and John Tartaglione.  But that’s not the reason I posted it today.

You see one of my daily stops on the internet highway is Diversions of the Groovy Kind.  DotGK recently posted…

“The Phoenix Gambit Part I: Temples of Time” by Doug Moench, Mike Zeck (his MOKF debut!), and John Tartaglione from Master of Kung Fu #59 (September 1977)…

and there you can see the entire issue.  And THAT is the reason for showing the art.

JoBlo.com’s Awesome Art We’ve Found Around the Net

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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.  If you check it out you’ll discover amazing artists like Dave Rapoza who did the Lobo piece above.

Howard Chaykin’s The Divided States of Hysteria is Coming This Fall!

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Howard Chaykin has a new –

I’m in.

But you don’t know what the comic is about.  You don’t even know what it’s called.

I’m in.

Listen –

Ok, tell me.

THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA is set in the aftermath of a dirty bomb that wipes New York City off the map, as what will come to be known as the Second American Civil War shatters the domestic landscape in isolated pustules of violence…and a team of five private contractors is charged with stemming this tide of rage and bringing the bombers to justice.

Guess what?

What?

I’m in.

Source: Bleeding Cool.

Kill or be Killed by Brubaker, Phillips & Breitweiser is Coming This Summer!

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Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Elizabeth Breitweiser have a new crime comic series coming out this summer called Kill or be Killed…

KILL OR BE KILLED is the story of a troubled young man who is compelled to kill bad people, and how he struggles to keep his secret, as it slowly begins to ruin his life and the lives of his friends and loved ones.

Deal me in.

Source: Bleeding Cool.

Kaare Andrews Talks Up Renalto Jones!

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Kaare Andrews is a movie and television director, a writer and artist.  Talk about a renaissance man!  Andrews has a new six issue comic series, Renalto Jones, coming out this summer.  Here’s how Kaare describes the series…

KA: Here’s the big conceit of the series: As you said, it’s about a man who hides amongst the super-rich and makes them pay for their super-rich crimes. But he doesn’t just hide in that world, he lives in it. So I can have a great time drawing gold plated Lamborghinis and huge estates, while still being able to get some payback. The book isn’t saying that all rich people are evil (remember, this is fiction), it’s saying that there is a certain kind of evil that’s untouchable because it hides behind wealth. To get at them, it’s going to take one of their own.

 

What’s interesting for me on a character level is that Renato isn’t really who he appears to be. ‘Renato’ is Italian for ‘Rebirth’ and that plays a big part of his character. Who is he? Why is he doing this? It’s not about revenge, but restitution. That’s important to Renato. He’s not getting even with the super-rich, he’s making them pay.

Check out Rich Johnston’s Why Kaare Andrews Is Focusing 100% On The One % at Bleeding Cool for the full story.

Moonshine by Azzarello & Risso Coming This Fall!

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Just the names Azzarello and Risso are enough for a comic to make my monthly pull list. Probably yours too, right?  Add to the fact that Moonshine is a period crime tale with werewolves and I think that we won’t be the only ones.

MOONSHINE is set during the Prohibition Era, deep in the backwoods of Appalachia and tells the story of Lou Pirlo, a city-slick “torpedo” sent from New York City to negotiate a deal with the best moonshiner in West Virginia, one Hiram Holt. Lou figures it for milk run—how hard could it be to set-up moonshine shipments from a few ass-backward hillbillies? What Lou doesn’t figure on is that Holt is just as cunning as ruthless as any NYC crime boss and Lou is in way over his pin-striped head. Because not only will Holt do anything to protect his illicit booze operation, he’ll stop at nothing to protect a much darker family secret…a bloody, supernatural secret that must never see the light of day… or better still, the light of the full moon.

Source: Bleeding Cool.