Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
If you’re in the area on January 12, 2020, you ought to consider swinging by The DeLand Comic and Collectibles Show. It’s a small, fun one day convention. My best bud, John Beatty will be a guest. So will my pal, Rob Smith. You can see the full guest list here. Hope to see you there!
Tony Stella is back with his poster for The Maltese Falcon.
Sly Stallone and Rambo fans who collect action figures will want to check out the new Rambo III offering from ThreeZero. This fully-articulated collectible features a realistic likeness to Sly Stallone as he looked playing Rambo in his third outing.
Details include:
12 inches (~30cm) custom designed action figure body
The head sculpt features a realistic likeness of actor Sylvester Stallone
Black bandana
Jade pendant
Military jacket
Tank top
Military watch
Military pants
Belt
Boots
Military bag
Exchangeable hands
1 pair of fists
1 right holding gun
1 left holding gun
1 right holding knife
1 left holding arrow
1 right holding bow
Weapons:
Compound bow with quiver & 5 arrows
C4 explosive x 1
Boot dagger x 1
Survival knife with sheath x 1
AK with M203 grenade launcher
RPG-7 launcher
The Bristol Board recently posted The Terminator portfolio. Originally published by Dark Horse in 1990, the portfolio featured the art of Chris Warner, Art Adams & Steve Moncuse, Mike Mignola, Art Adams, and Denis Beauvais.
Makes me want to go into the Zablo vault and dig out my Terminator portfolio. If you don’t have one, just use this link and click over to see all the Terminator portfolio plates.
I missed the cowboy comics boom. When I started reading comics super heroes were already king. Even still, there was an abundance of western comic books. My favorite was The Rawhide Kid, but I also read many others.
If you’d like to get a look a some of the western comics heroes from the glory days, check out the gallery at Black, White and Bronze. You’ll see art by Toth, Buscema, Heath, Kubert, Kirby, (my buddy!) Bill Black and others.
Frank Miller and Legendary Television have reached an agreement to turn Miller’s Sin City into a television series. An agreement to bring Robert Rodriguez (Miller’s co-director on the Sin City films) on board is also in the works.
The deal would guarantee a minimum of one season if picked up by a network or streaming service. In addition to the Sin City tv series, the agreement also provides for a Sin City R-rated animated series!
I love both of these ideas. And wouldn’t animated Sin City series done in the style of Miller’s graphic novels would be interesting?
For full details check out Deadline’s Legendary Signs Rights Deal With Frank Miller For ‘Sin City’ TV Series; Robert Rodriguez In Talks.
Click on the photo above to get a bigger and better look at Eduardo Risso’s riff on the major players from 100 Bullets.
100 Bullets created by Brian Azzarello (writer) and Eduardo Risso (artist) is an Eisner Award-winning comic series that ran for 100 issues. Here’s the sysnopsis….
100 Bullets features a mysterious agent named Graves who approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person who has wronged them. Offering his clients an attaché case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his “clients” full immunity for all of their actions, including murder.
If you’ve never read 100 Bullets, you owe it to yourself to seek it out!
Darwyn Cooke created the art above for Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition which collected Darwyn Cooke’s first two Parker books, The Hunter and The Outfit…
…in a tremendous, special, oversized hardcover edition — with an additional 65-pages of content — encased in a beautiful slipcase!
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter graphic novel debuted in July 2008 to instantaneous popular and critical acclaim. It made the New York Times bestseller list and won coveted Eisner and Harvey awards. The second graphic novel, The Outfit, was released in 2010 and was met with similar response, and won the 2011 Eisner for Best Writer/Artist.
The Hunter and The Outfit tell the story of Parker, Richard Stark’s classic anti-hero, as he returns to New York to settle the score with his wife and partner in crime after they betray him in a heist gone terribly wrong. After evening the field and reclaiming his prize, the Outfit decide to do some score settling of their own… and learn much too late that when you push a man like Parker, it had better be all the way to the grave.
Also contains the short stories The Man With the Getaway Face and The Seventh.
I had ordered a copy of The Martini Edition when it was published in 2011, but it arrived damaged. When I returned it for a replacement, I was sad to learn The Martini Edition had sold out.
Until now. (Actually April 28, 2020.)
IDW is reprinting Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition. It’ll have a different cover but the same contents. I’m betting this edition will sell out quickly. I’ve put in my pre-order. If you’re interested, I wouldn’t wait long before doing the same.
Back in the prehistoric days before the internet comic fans had very little information about future comics. The Comic Reader was one of the first (perhaps the first) continually published fanzines that gave fans interviews with comic creators, previews of coming comics and actual covers and story-lines.
Pete Doree at his site The Bronze Age of Blogs has posted a gallery of The Comic Reader Covers. If you click over, what you’ll see are from the likes of Simonson, Chaykin, Grell, Buckler, Byrne, Toth and many others.
Here’s a vintage drawing by Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy. I love how he took the classic Universal Monsters Wolfman as the basis for his werewolf. Although I usually prefer the Curse of the Werewolf design, I wouldn’t mind seeing a story about this guy.
Source: Cool Comic Art.
How cool is this Tony Stella poster for The Big Combo?
Check out this cool Terminator 2: Judgment Day poster by Tony Stella.
Jim Steranko can do it all.
Thanks to Doug at Black, White and Bronze we get to see a great example of Steranko’s writing and art. The complete story is At the Stroke of Midnight and it’s presented in both the black & white and color versions.
Check ’em out!
Happy Halloween! Today we have a poster (created by Richard Hilliard) for a Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein!
Who doesn’t love A&C Meet Frankenstein? It’s got great humor as well as Frankenstein, The Wolfman and Dracula (Bela is back!). Plus — a great cameo from Vincent Price.
Source: Movie Poster Moment.
How about this Creature from the Black Lagoon print by Jason Edmiston? If you like it (I do!), you can see a larger version at Mondo.
