Category: Comics

One of the things I love about the internet is discovering things I might have otherwise missed.  Until a few days ago I had never seen Frank Miller’s The Chase.  This is prime Frank Miller art and storytelling.  Click on the art to see it biggie-sized in all it’s beauty.

Source: The Bristol Board.

Now there’s a crossover I’d read – Torpedo (Luca Torelli with Rascal) and Batman by Jordi Bernet!  Click on the image above to see a bigger version!

Source: Michael Kronenberg (If you’re not following him, you’re missing out on a lot of cool stuff!)

A Calculated Man is a new crime series coming this June from Aftershock Comics and creaters Paul Tobin (writer), Alberto Alburquerque (artist), Mark Englert (colorist) and Taylor Esposito (letterer).  Here’s how Aftershock Comics describes the series…

A verifiable math genius, Jack Beans used to run the numbers for the Pinafore crime family, until one day he ran them too well and concluded that the only way out of this life was in a casket or Witness Protection. So, he turned state’s evidence and ran.

Now, the Pinafores are out to end their favorite accountant. Little do they know that Jack’s skills with math and his perfect memory have made him a better killer than they ever could have realized. What follows is a journey full of murder, mayhem and mathematics.

Here’s writer Paul Tobin’s synopsis…

“It’s John Wick mixed with A Beautiful Mind when ex-mobster / math genius Jack Beans decides three years in the witness protection program is more than enough, and that all he needs to do to safely return to his old life is…kill every last member of the Pinafore crime family. It’s a tall order, but Jack Beans is no ordinary man. First, he’s GOOD at math. Not just “What’s the square root of nine?” good, but “prove the existence of three differently-sized infinites by use of the Continuum Hypothesis” good. He literally sees the world as a math problem, and was born with synesthesia: he sees numbers as colors, and his memory is absolute. It’s these skills Jack will have to use to make his hopes of staying alive add up to anything other than zero!”

Deal me in.

I’ll bet you dig Chris Samnee’s take on Marv from Sin City.  You can see more of Samnee’s art daily on his Twitter or his Instagram.

Eduardo Risso fans will want to check out The Bristol Board’s small gallery of Risso’s art.  You’ll see the piece above and a couple of more in a much larger size.  Definitely worth the click over.