Cooke/Stark: The Hunter
Check out Geoff Boucher’s great LA Times review of Darwyn Cooke’s adaption of Richard Stark’s The Hunter by clicking here. I can’t wait to pick up my copy. When reviews are universally this good, how can you go wrong?
Category: Comics
Paul Gulacy: Sabre
Every so often, when you’re a Paul Gulacy fan like me, you just want to see some of Paul’s great art. The shot of Sabre above should do the trick.
1st Black Cross Cover
The cover above features the first appearance of a character created by Chris Warner called Black Cross. Dark Horse Presents #1 was an anthology and Black Cross got the cover. The character was also popular enough to spin off into a mini-series, a couple of stand alone short comic stories and a one-shot. At one point, Black Cross was even close to becoming a big screen feature with Howie Long in the title role. At about the same time another Black Cross mini-series was in the works called “My War”. Neither it or the movie ever happened.
Maybe one day Chris Warner will bring back Black Cross.
Chris Mills Made Me a Winner!
Hey! Chris Mills recently held a contest in honor of his birthday. How about that? Chris gives presents to readers to celebrate another year on this planet. So… he had a drawing for a two issue mini-series that he wrote back in the day called “Bloodthirst: The Nightfall Conspiracy” and I was the lucky winner.
Chris runs a lot of cool sites including: Atomic Pulp, Femme Noir, Perils on Planet X, Guns in the Gutters, and many others. Chris also wrote one of my all-time favorite crime comics, Gravedigger: The Scavengers and is currently working on a Gravedigger sequel in between running all of his websites and working on other writing projects. Check out his sites. My guess is you’ll find several that will appeal to you.
A Double Shot of Chaykin
Howard Chaykin is back in the news again. Newsarama caught him with him and they discussed the return of Dominic Fortune and in a separate interview the return of American Flagg.
Cap Ain’t No Bas– Watch Your Mouth!
It’s been a long day. Went in to work early for three hours [well, for summer anyway when I’m supposed to be off] — then ran some errands, came home and did some major spring [summer cleaning] and worked to get my computer up and running again. Actually, things went pretty well. Then I came across the latest poster for Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and things got even better. It kind of reminds me of an old Captain America cover. Of course Cap wouldn’t have machine gunned the Nazis.
The Return of… Mike Zeck!
Hey! I dug into the ZONE vault and found another of my favorite Master of Kung Fu covers from back in the day. That is of course, the great Mike Zeck who did the pencils and inks on this bad boy.
More Collected Chaykin Goodness
It’s no secret that I’m a huge Howard Chaykin fan. It’s also no secret that Chaykin’s classic American Flagg series is being reprinted in nice hardcover editions. What I didn’t know until reading this interview with Chaykin at Newsarama today, is that Power and Glory, Black Kiss and Midnight Men are going to be collected and reprinted in their own hardcover editions!
The Nocturnals Together Again
CBR.com caught up with Dan Brereton and he gives us the lowdown on the Nocturnals collected editions. I dig the Nocturnals, but would really love to see Dan’s work on The Black Terror reprinted in a nice hardcover.
Catching Up with Andrew Robinson
Newsarama.com has a nice little interview with Andrew Robinson that’s worth a look!
Evan Bryce’s Stallone
I’m a big Evan Bryce fan. I’ve been following his work for a few years now and we’ve become friends via the internet.
When I saw that Evan was going to be at this year’s Heroes Convention, I knew that I’d want to get a sketch from him to go with my other two. We talked and Evan asked what character I wanted. I told him it was his choice and handed him the reference photos. I had high expectations for what Evan would come up with. He exceeded them all.
Evan is an exciting artist and one to keep an eye on. You can see more of his work at his blog or his Deviant Art site. Plan to spend a while.
A New Existence
Ron Salas [artist] and Nick Spencer [writer] discussed their new mini-series Existence 2.0 with the folks at Newsarama.com. You’ve heard me talking up the series, but now you can hear what the creators of it have to say simply by clicking here.
Heroes Here I Come!
Tomorrow I’m heading to Heroes Con in Charlotte, North Carolina. Most folks refer to it as the best comic convention on the East Coast. Most folks would be right. From Friday, June 19th to Sunday, the 21st I’ll see if the praise still holds true. My guess is, it will.
I plan to tweet updates from the show and post a major con report next week. Until then…
My Three Amigos
It was pretty cool to get home to find that three of my buddies made the news today and not a single one in the courthouse docket.
John Beatty has this little interview about what he’s been up to posted at Comicon.com.
Gene Gonzales made a new sketchbook and it [rightly] rated a piece at Scoop.com.
Ron Salas is the artist on a new comic, Existence 2.0, coming from Image and CBR.com posted a 12 page preview.
Dead Zombie Ratings
According to this site, the ZONE should be rated PG-13 due to using the word “dead” 9 times, “zombie” 4 times and “death” once. Well, I do write, on a fairly regular basis, about how great the comic “The Walking Dead” is… and it is about zombies.
I guess if I’d been talking up “Hellboy” I might have gotten an “R” rating?? Oops.
