Category: Comics

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.

Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips – A Retrospective!

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Long time readers know that I am a huge fan of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips comic stories.  Perhaps David Harper summarizes my feelings best when he describes his admiration for Brubaker and Phillips by saying they are…

the finest and most consistent creative partnership in modern comics. When you hear Brubaker and Phillips are working on something, the question isn’t “will I buy it?”, it’s “when can I buy it?” They’re the type of team where your pull list simply has a “Brubaker/Phillips all” item on it. That’s rarefied air, at least for me.

Harper goes on to create an excellent overview of Brubaker and Phillips work in This Noir Life: A Retrospective of the Brubaker/Phillips Partnership at sktched.com.

Was the Biggest Batman the Best?

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So how big is Batman, really?  That, of course, depends on which Batman you’re talking about.

The comic book Batman was supposed to be about 6’2″ and 210 pounds.  Adam West came closest to that version at 6’2″ and 200 pounds.  All of the other actors who played the Dark Knight, except for Ben Affleck, were smaller.

So does size matter?  Who made the best Batman?

You can check out a larger version of the chart here.

Source: Bleeding Cool.

Midnight of the Soul by Howard Chaykin

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It’s hard to believe that it was almost four years ago when I first posted about a new series from Howard Chaykin called Midnight of the Soul.  There was just a cool shot of a guy on a motorcycle [not the same as above] with the following…

Joel Breakstone came home from the Second World War
with a Purple Heart, a German Luger, and
a desperate taste for alcohol.

In one long night, he’ll lose all three and regain
everything he gave up to get them, in a story of
redemption, in the only parallel universe
that counts… The Real World.

After that teaser appeared there was nothing… until today.

Bleeding Cool has posted a preview of the series with art.  Be advised before clicking over that the series contains adult language.  If you’re of age and not offended then check out “Midnight Of The Soul Is A Labor Of Love” New Miniseries From Howard Chaykin.