Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Max Allan Collins was recently interviewed by Michael Barson about Collins’ friendship and collaborations with Mickey Spillane. If you’re a fan of Collins and/or Spillane, you won’t want to miss it.
Source: Crime Spree Mag.
The photo Lunch Atop a Skyscraper is famous. We’ve all seen it, but until I watched the video below, I didn’t know the story behind it.
Except for Creed 2, Sicario: Day of the Soldado is the movie I’m most looking forward to this year!
Seeing Mike Mignola’s Bride of Frankenstein piece makes me wonder why someone isn’t licensing the classic Universal Monster movies to bring out as comics. I’d think there’s a market for them.
Source: I Can’t Stop Thinking About Comics.
May 5, 2018 is Free Comic Book Day. Dark Planet is making Stephen Franck’s Silver #1 available. Franck summarizes Silver as…
… an original universe built around Bram Stoker’s original Dracula, and it begins 40 years after the events of the novel, into the noir/pulp era of the 1930s. You meet James Finnigan, who is the most notorious conman/gentleman-thief of his day, as he teams up with Rosalynd “Sledge” Van Helsing (granddaughter of the original Van Helsing, and altogether the last of the Van Helsings), to steal a mystical treasure hidden in Dracula’s castle. Finn, of course, brings his known associates—a fun assortment of conmen and grifters of all kinds—as well as the kind of amoral attitude that puts him immediately at odds with Sledge. Lastly, the team enlists Tao Leu (or more accurately, he enlists himself), who is a 10-year-old boy with the gift of second sight and who might be the biggest scoundrel of them all.
If this sounds like something you’d like or you’d like to see more click over to Free Comic Book Day’s Interview with Stephen Franc or to see a bigger preview of Silver.
Jonathan Maberry recently requested…
Name your favorite:
1. Vampire Movie
2. Werewolf Movie
3. Zombie Movie
4. Monster Movie
5. Haunted House Movie
And he listed his…
1. Near Dark
2. Dog Soldiers
3. Dawn of the Dead 2004 unrated directors cut)
4. Aliens
5. The Haunting
So here’s mine…
Dracula (1931)
Curse of the Werewolf
Night of the Living Dead (Romero Original)
Aliens
The Changeling
Yours?
Some things are just too cool not to share. Popeye, Brutus and Olive Oyle by Otto Schmidt is one of them.
Source: Browse The Stacks.
The next Joe Ledger novel, Deep Silence, is set to drop on October 30, 2018.
The twelfth Joe Ledger novel in the New York Times bestselling series.
Terrorists-for-hire have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side-effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence. A wave of madness begins sweeping the country beginning with a mass shooting in Congress. Joe Ledger and his team go on a wild hunt to stop the terrorists and uncover the global super-power secretly funding them. At every step the stakes increase as it becomes clear that the end-game of this campaign of terror is igniting the Yellowstone caldera, the super-volcano that could destroy America.
I’ve read all of the Joe Ledger novels and there’s not a misfire in the batch. Of course that’s no surprise because every Jonathan Maberry short story or novel (Yeah, he writes other things besides Joe Ledger) has been a winner. Let me put my pre-order in now.
What I wouldn’t have given to see Darwyn Cooke do his take on a 1960’s Nick Fury tale. Darwyn Cooke passed way too young. So much talent. Thankfully, as cliche as it may be, we have his stories and art and they will live on.
Source: Zakk the Comicholic.
Here’s something you don’t often see — Steranko art for The Godfather, Part II. You can see a bigger version at Cool Comic Art on Twitter.
If you’re an Eric Beetner fan, you’ve probably already seen his interview at Murder Books. If you missed it, here is is and if you’re not a fan, check it out and maybe you will be.
CROSSROAD BLUES: A NICK TRAVERS GRAPHIC NOVEL by Ace Atkins and Marco Finnegan is set to drop May 1st and I can’t wait.
After a New Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson—who, as legend has it, sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads—Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues point to everyone from an eccentric albino named Cracker to a hitman who believes he is the second coming of Elvis Presley.
I first discovered Atkins writing when he was tapped to continue the Robert B. Parker Spenser novels. I was so impressed I searched out more of Atkins work and this led me to his other novels as well as the first Nick Travers graphic novel, Last Fair Deal Gone Down. Needless to say, I was hooked.
Source: Comicosity.
Check out Teeter Topple and a whole lot more at Karl Slominski’s site.
I Can’t Stop Thinking About Comics posted eight Paul Gulacy splash pages from his glorious run on Master of Kung Fu. If you click over you can see all of them in a much larger size!
I’m not sure of the artist who created this poster for The Thing, but I sure do like it!
Source: Jennifer Elm.
