Category: Art

The Twilight Children #3 by Hernandez and Cooke / Z-View

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The Twilight Children #3 is part of a four-issue mini-series published by Vertigo Comics.

Writer: Gilbert Hernandez
Artist: Darwyn Coole
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Darwyn Cooke

*** Beware – spoilers may be found below ***

Ok.  The mysteries continue to pile up.  Who is the beautiful woman?  Why does Tito go from man to man? What are the beautiful woman’s powers?  Where is she from?  Why did she freeze the CIA (are they?) agents?  Why did those that touch the agents also become frozen?  When the orbs appear and drop people off why do they quickly teleport them away again… and where do they go? What cause the town people appear to be sleep walking/talking at night?  When the beautiful woman says she’s here to save us, can we trust her?

The plot grows ever thicker.  I’m hoping for an ending that will satisfy the many questions that have been raised throughout the series.  Darwyn Cooke’s art continues to highly entertain.

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The Twilight Children #2 by Hernandez and Cooke / Z-View

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The Twilight Children #2 is part of a four-issue mini-series published by Vertigo Comics.

Writer: Gilbert Hernandez
Artist: Darwyn Coole
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Darwyn Cooke

*** Beware – spoilers may be found below ***

The town sheriff has his hands full this issue — there’s the new beautiful woman in town, who just may be an alien.  Then there’s two guys who just arrived and we’re pretty sure they’re CIA.  Tito (who was cheating with the fisherman) is now coming on to the young scientist.  Her husband Nicholas is more upset over that than Tito’s cheating with Anton so he enlists Anton’s aid to kill the scientist.  The children blinded by the orb last issue can remarkably see again, and for some reason (that we know) the scientist ends high up in a tree unconscious and in the nude.

The plot thickens as orbs secretly appear, people disappear and a murder attempt is set in motion.

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The Twilight Children #1 by Hernandez and Cooke / Z-View

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The Twilight Children #1 is part of a four-issue mini-series published by Vertigo Comics.

Writer: Gilbert Hernandez
Artist: Darwyn Coole
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Darwyn Cooke

*** Beware – spoilers may be found below ***

A mysterious white orb appears on the shore of a remote Latin American village.  This has happened before, but the orbs always disappear before anyone can figure out what they are or where they come from.

When word gets out about this new orb many of the town folk come to see it.  They include Bundo (a drunk with a tragic past), Anton (a fisherman having an affair with) Tito (a local hottie who is married to the oblivious) business man Nicholas, the Sheriff and a young scientist new to the town.

The orb disappears and later reappears in a cave being explored by three small children.  When the children approach the orb it explodes, leaving the children blind. Not long after a beautiful young woman (alien?) appears in town.  You know the CIA can’t be far behind — and they’re not.

This issue is beautifully drawn and well written.  It reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone which is high praise, indeed.  I look forward to issue two.

Rating: 5 of 5 stars.

“Violent Love” is Coming

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I could not pre-order this one fast enough!  Looks like a real fun ride, Daddy-O.

VIOLENT LOVE #1
Story By: Frank J. Barbiere
Art By: Victor Santos
Cover By: Victor Santos
Variant Cover By: Victor Santos
Published: November 9, 2016

SERIES PREMIERE Daisy Jane and Rock Bradley were two of the most notorious bank robbers in the American Southwest. And then they fell in love. Join FRANK J. BARBIERE (FIVE GHOSTS, The Revisionist) and VICTOR SANTOS (THE MICE TEMPLAR, Polar) for a pulp-infused criminal romance oozing with style and action! Double-sized debut issue!

Source: Image Comics & Comicosity & Bleeding Cool.

The Making of The Lords of Flatbush by Stephen Verona (2008) / Z-View

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The Making of The Lords of Flatbush by Stephen Verona (2008)

Paperback: 155 pages
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing International; First Edition ~1st Printing edition (June 15, 2008)

First sentence…

When I was single and dating I would regale girls with these stories of my childhood and the guys I hung with.

 

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

Stephen Verona, the writer and director of Lords of Flatbush, takes us on the amazing trip to get Lords of Flatbush, one of the first truly independent films made.  Along the way, we’ll learn how Verona got started (becoming friends with John Lennon and working with Lennon to animate the Beatles song I Feel Fine) and the long process to get Lords of Flatbush made.

Verona worked with many big names [Lee Strasberg, Janet Leigh, The Beatles, Chicago, Barbara Steisand, etc.] prior to writing and directing Lords of Flatbush and those stories are fun but the heart of the book is of course getting LoF made.  Verona provides many anecdotes and behind the scenes photos and trivia.  (Did you know that Richard Gere was originally to play Perry King’s role? Stallone and Gere had a falling out and one had to go!]

Verona writes in a conversation style that’s easy to read.  Fans of LoF will love the behind-the-scenes peek and prospective film makers will learn from the mistakes Verona as a first time film-maker made.

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Ace Atkins & Marco Finnegan: Last Fair Deal Gone Down Interview!

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Ace Atkins [writer] and Marco Finnegan [artist] the team behind the graphic novel Last Fair Deal Gone Down recently were interviewed by Alex Dueben for The Beat.

Last Fair Deal Gone Down…

It’s Christmas in New Orleans. For many, it’s the best season of the year. But instead of spending time with the people he cares about, Nick Travers is searching for the killer of his friend, Fats, one of the best saxophone players you could find in the Crescent City. At first it appears that Fats took his own life, but Nick quickly discovers that the saxophone is missing from Fats’ apartment and he hits the streets to track it down. He soon learns that there is more to the story than a simple suicide, and the woman who Fats had been paying to keep him company may hold the answers.

Last Fair Deal Gone Down will be the first in a series of Nick Travers graphic novel adaptations from 12-Gauge Comics― introducing the character and his stories to a brand new audience.

New Posters for AMC’s “Preacher”

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Preacher on AMC is one of the strangest shows I’ve ever watched and I am totally diggin’ it.

Having never read the comic series (created by writer, Garth Ennis and artist, Steve Dillon) on which the show is based I didn’t know what to expect.

It sure wasn’t a small town preacher (who used to be a criminal) accidentally infused with a supernatural power.  And who would have guessed that the Preacher’s girlfriend (who was also his crime partner) would show up or that he would become best friends with a vampire (unlike any ever seen)?  Then of course, there’s the Saint of Killers, a gunfighter from the old west, recently returned to Earth from hell…

I’m going to keep my eye out for the comic series.

In the mean time, you might want to check out these Preacher promotional posters created by Steve Dillon & Matt Hollingsworth, Glenn Farbry, Mike & Laura Allred, Dustin Nguyen, David Mack, Erica Henderson, Steve Ellis (shown above) Neal Adams & Tim Shinn and Mike Del Mundo.

Source: XombieDirge.

Preview of Moonshine by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso

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Moonshine by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso the creative team behind the award-winning series 100 Bullets is…

Set during Prohibition, and deep in the backwoods of Appalachia, MOONSHINE #1 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. What Lou doesn’t figure on is that Holt is just as cunning and ruthless as any NYC crime boss. 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. MOONSHINE #1 marks the first time AZZARELLO and RISSO have worked together for Image Comics and reunites the Eisner Award winning creative team that defined modern crime comics with 100 Bullets… and now puts a horror-twist on a classic gangster tale.

Moonshine is for mature audiences due to violence and language.  If you meet those qualifications, CBR.com has a five page preview of things to come.