Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Above is Thomas Boatwright’s art of Sly from Rambo III. If you like what you see (or love it as I do) then you may want to check out the video below of Boatwright creating it!
Over the years I’ve gotten several Stallone pieces from Thomas. Click on the link to see what has been posted so far… there are more to come.
If you’d like to see more of Thomas Boatwright’s art check out his blog and his instagram. Send him some love.
Eric Powell’s The Goon is returning to comics after a four-year hiatus and fans couldn’t be happier. If you’d like to see a preview of issue one, you can thanks to io9.
Art fans will be glad to hear about the publication of Fuel to the Fire: The Art of Tomer Hanuka.
Discover the magical realism that makes Tomer Hanuka so popular in this exceptional art book celebrating the award-winning illustrator’s comic-inspired art. Fuel to the Fire is a massive 300-page monograph filled with illustrations and comic book art that has graced the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Criterion, and more. This long-awaited monograph showcases Hanuka’s most iconic and exclusive masterpieces, including all of his famous covers for The New Yorker and his award-winning recreations of movie posters (The Graduate, Star Wars, Akira, and every Kubrick film).
I can’t wait to get a look at this baby!
Sean Phillips is an amazing artist as you can see from his James Cagney piece above. The art appears with an article on Angels with Dirty Faces by Kim Morgan that will appear in Criminal #2 dropping on February 12th.
The great thing about the Criminal comic series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is that each issue is packed with a great comic story PLUS bonus features and art.
Source: Kim Morgan.
The 7 Deadly Sins is available as a graphic novel, a six part mini-series and a digital download published by TKO Studios.
*** Beware – spoilers may be found below ***
THE 7 DEADLY SINS
SEVEN DEADLY SINS.
ONE DEADLY MISSION.1857. Texas. A group of death row criminals is recruited by a Mexican priest for a suicide mission into Comancheria.
Seven death row prisoners are recruited to accompany a Priest on a suicide mission into Indian territory to recover a child stolen from settlers. Each of those on the mission have reasons to go above and beyond avoiding the gallows.
Tze Chun has created a story much more aligned to The Wild Bunch and The Searchers than most western comic book stories. His characters all have individual personalities, depth and backstory. Chun developed excellent twists that, although you won’t see coming, feel true. Chun is a writer to watch!
Artyom Trakhanov’s art is beautiful. I’ve followed his work in other stories but The 7 Deadly Sins is his masterpiece (at least so far). Trakhanhov has the rare ability (think Eduardo Risso and Palle Schimdt) to make all of his characters, including those in the backgrounds, have their own unique feel and personality. Trakhanov’s style is his own, but reminds me of a young Michael Golden. (High praise, indeed!)
Giulia Brusco’s colors compliment Trakhanov’s art and enhance the story. Brusco’s color’s are beautiful without being overbearing or drawing attention away from the story.
TKO Studios releases all of their comics in three different formats: digital download, as individual comics in a collector’s box and as a graphic novel. The comics and graphic novels are slightly larger than traditional comics/graphic novels. With TKO Studios there is no waiting for individual issues month to month — all issues are available from day one of publication! Also, each first issue is available to read online for free! Hats off to TKO Studios for these welcome innovations.
If I was going to nit pick, I’d ask TKO Studios to include the individual comic series covers with the graphic novels.
The 7 Deadly Sins is the complete package – great story and art – and gets my highest recommendation.
Rating: 5 of 5 stars.
My introduction to independent comics was the first issue of Star*Reach. It featured a Howard Chaykin Cody Starbuck story. Starbuck was a swashbuckling space pirate. Over the years I followed his all-too infrequent adventures.
Cody Starbuck made appearances in…
There was also another Cody Starbuck story published in Spain back in the early 80’s. Sadly, I like many Chaykin/Cody Starbuck fans never got a chance to see it. It was never reprinted in the US.
Isn’t it time we got a US version of the Cody Starbuck story published in Spain? Better yet, how about a nice hardcover omnibus reprinting all the Cody Starbuck stories, the portfolio and other bonus materials?
Anyone else diggin’ this poster for Polar? Click on the photo to see a bigger version.
At first glance I thought, “What a cool Hellboy poster.” A closer inspection and I thought Hellboy is appears really short. I think it’s because we can’t see his legs and his head looks too large for his body.
Am I wrong?
Here’s something you don’t see everyday. It is a vintage Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD prelim by Steranko.
Can you believe it was rejected? It was supposed to be the cover to the first issue.
Truth be told, I like the published cover of the first issue better, but Steranko used a modified version of the art above for the cover of issue 5 and it was accepted.
Source: Jeff Rose.
This rare, vintage Shang-Chi art by Paul Gulacy brings a smile to my face every time I see it. Hope you enjoy it as well.
Source: Gulacy.
Here’s the official Walking Dead trailer for the second half of season 9 and it looks good!
I’m a huge fan of Victor Santos’ Polar graphic novels so you can imagine how much I’ve been looking forward to the movie adaptation of Polar. Today we get the poster and trailer and I love ’em both. I hope you do as well.
If you’re psyched for M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass, you’ll probably want to check out An Oral History of M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable. It features Shyamalan, Samuel Jackson, Bruce Willis and others involved talking about the making of Unbreakable.
Source: EW.com.
Each of these beautiful classic universal monsters was created by the uber-talented Duncan Fegredo. Click on the image above to see a larger version.
Source: Longbox of Darkness.
