The Lady Killer Library Edition by Jamie Rich & Joelle Jones is Coming!

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I love recommending good books.  I especially love good books that are  bargains.  The Lady Killer Library Edition by Jamie Rich (Author), Joelle Jones (Author & Illustrator) qualifies on both counts.

Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother–but she’s also a ruthless killer!

She balances cheerful domestic bliss with coldly efficient assassinations. From the World’s Fair in Seattle to the beaches of Florida, Josie tries to keep her perfect family alive in a bloodstained new vision of the American Dream.

Joelle Jones became an overnight sensation with this gory midcentury series, leading to successful runs on DC’s Catwoman and Batman titles. Now Lady Killer‘s complete story (so far) is together in one oversized hardcover, the perfect showcase for Jones’s phenomenal artwork.

This oversized hardcover collects the original series cowritten by Jones’s longtime collaborator Jamie S. Rich, as well as the followup, which she both wrote and drew solo. Also included are the sketchbooks from both series and previously unpublished art.

Collects Lady Killer TPB volumes 1 & 2.

The Lady Killer Library Edition will become available on May 12, 2020.  Pre-orders are being taken now.

“Cut Bank” / Z-View

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Cut Bank (2014)

Director: Matt Shakman

Screenplay: Roberto Patino

Stars:  Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Billy Bob Thorton, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich and Michael Stuhlbarg.

The Pitch: “Do you like movies like Blood Simple and Fargo…”

Tagline: Good Folks. Bad Deeds.

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

Dwayne McLaren dreams of getting out of  Cut Bank, a small town with little promise.  When McLaren and his girlfriend accidentally video the murder of a postal worker, they may have stumbled on their ticket out.  The $100,000 reward money offered by the postal service would be life-changing money.

But all is not as it seems.

The postal worker was set to deliver a parcel that a man is willing to kill to get and perhaps the postal worker’s killing wasn’t a murder at all.  Who is scamming who?

Cut Bank features great cast and a story with plenty of twists.  I was surprised how good it is. Although I’ve posted the trailer below, I suggest you skip it and go straight to the movie.  (Some of the twists are given away in the trailer.  Go in cold and enjoy!)

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Mark Evanier’s Xmas Story (Starring Mel Torme)

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It’s become a tradition around this time of year for Mark Evanier to post what he calls My Xmas Story.

ME has been blogging for nearly 20 years, with over 25,000 posts and  My Xmas Story is his site’s most popular.  As you’ve probably guessed, it features the gent in the photo above.  For our younger readers, that gent is Mel Torme.  I invite each of  you (young and old) to click over to Evanier’s post and enjoy.

Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley / Z-View

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Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley

Hardcover: 291 pages
Publisher: Doubleday

First sentence…

“I came half-awake, dead and dreaming.”

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

Still recovering from a near-fatal car accident, Easy Rawlins agrees to find a missing teenager named Evander “Little Green” Noon.  Finding Little Green is tough enough, but the real mystery is how did he come into possession of two bags of money covered in blood?  There’s also the problem of what can be done about the men out to get the money back and kill those who possess it.


Arnold Schwarzenegger is “Dirty Harry” in this DeepFake Trailer!

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Check out Arnold Schwarzenegger in this DeepFake trailer to Dirty Harry! The technology is improving so quickly that soon we’ll see dead actors/actresses making a comeback.

Some folks are against putting deceased stars in ads or movies, but I like the idea if the heirs are okay with it.  Who’d have thought we may someday see new movies with Marlon Brando, Bruce Lee, Humphrey Bogart or Lon Chaney?

Repairman Jack: Scar-Lip Redux by F. Paul Wilson and Antonio Fuso is Coming!

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F. Paul Wilson’s popular character Repairman Jack will be appearing in a 120 page graphic novel published by Dynamite Comics in 2020.  Wilson will team with artist Antonio Fuso, colorist Pippa Bowland and letterer Crank to produce Repairman Jack: Scar-Lip Redux.

Got a problem? He can fix it. He thought he’d seen the last of the Rakoshi, but one has survived. A particularly cunning and deadly Rakosh known to Jack as Scar-Lip. Now, Jack faces the fights of his life as he seeks to end the creature once and for all, before it ends him!

Source: Bleeding Cool.

The New Year’s Eve “Twilight Zone” Marathon is Coming – Here’s What to Watch!

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For years The Twilight Zone Marathon on the Syfy Channel was a Zablo family New Year’s Eve tradition.  I’m happy to report that the TZ Marathon is back starting at 6:00am est on December 31st.

If you can record ’em all, then do it!  If you’d like to know the top ten I suggest to not miss, then set the DVR for…

Dec. 31st
7:30 pm  Time Enough at Last
8:30 pm  The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
9:00 pm  Eye of the Beholder
9:30 pm  The Invaders
10:00 pm It’s a Good Life

Jan. 1st
2:30 pm  The Shelter
9:30 pm  Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
10:00 pm The Midnight Sun
10:30 pm To Serve Man
11:00 pm Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Z-View: “6 Underground”

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6 Underground (2019)

Director: Michael Bay

Screenplay: Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese

Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Adria Arjona,Corey Hawkins  and Dave Franco.

The Pitch: “Michael Bay wants to make an action movie.”

Tagline: They Say No One Can Save The World. Meet No One.

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

Ryan Reynolds plays a billionaire who recruits folks with special talents to join his team to right wrongs throughout the world.  That’s all you really need to know other than the fact that this mission’s goal is to replace an evil dictator with his democracy-loving brother.

Think a low-budget Mission Impossible movie made with a big budget.

The star of the movie isn’t Ryan Reynolds, it’s the action scenes directed by Michael Bay.  The movie starts with a 20 minute car chase where we learn the bare bones plot and who the players are.  We’re literally off and running with cars, trucks, motorcycles and parkour.

And that’s the opening.

Before 6 Underground is done we’ll have action on roof tops, in pools, hotel rooms, boats, construction sites, the desert, and museums.  Bad guys are wiped out in bunches and I’ve never seen a movie where pedestrians are just as likely to be killed as the bad guy’s henchmen.

There are a lot of car wrecks and we all know the analogy — It was like watching a car wreck, I couldn’t look away.  Well, that’s a good analogy for 6 Underground, because the action comes so (pardon the expression) fast and furious, you’ll find yourself watching.  The movie never slows long enough to become boring before the next action scene is ramping up.  So you keep looking… watching the shoot-outs, car chases and fights until the movie ends.

6 Underground is entertaining in the way a roller-coaster is fun – it moves fast, has a few surprises and doesn’t slow down long enough to bore you.  When it’s over, you’ll probably say, it was fun but you’ll be ready to move on to the next ride.

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The Detachment by Barry Eisler / Z-View

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The Detachment (A John Rain Novel) by Barry Eisler

Paperback: 324 pages
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

First sentence…

“I hadn’t killed anyone in almost four years.”

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

When Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton reaches out to John Rain, Rain knows things are bad.  Horton has learned of a plan to overthrow the United States government.  In order to stop the coup, Horton wants Rain to team with three other assassins and take out the three high level government officials behind the plan.

The complexity of multiple hits, coupled with the big payday offered convinces Rain to team with a former friend and two talented, but unknown killers provided by Horton.  Things go sideways and the new team is betrayed. Rain doesn’t know who he can trust.  As the clock ticks down, the four assassins must figure out who the traitor is and still find a way to effectively end the coup.

Eisler is an excellent writer with skills enhanced by his experience in a covert position for the CIA and a black belt in judo. He’s especially good at bringing out the underlying tension when a group of mercenaries are brought together under circumstances where any one (or more of them) may be secretly part of the group they are working to bring down.

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