Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Above is a rare, vintage sketch of Morbius the Living Vampire drawn by Paul Gulacy way back in 1980.
The sketch reminds me of the first Paul Gulacy art I ever owned. It was also a Morbius and victim sketch that I purchased in 1978 or 1979. At the time he was a second or third tier Marvel character. Who’d have thought that Morbius would be the “star’ of a movie in 2020?
On August 4, 2020, Dark Horse Comics is releasing Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics…
…Featuring stories by Brian Azzarello, Jeff Lemire, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and many more of crime comics’ top talent!
Murder, passion, and criminal enterprise are presented here at their darkest, directly from the most talented writers and artists in crime comics!
In these thirteen pitch-black noir stories, you’ll find deadly conmen and embittered detectives converging on femme fatales and accidental murderers, all presented in sharp black and white by masters of the craft.
If Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics sounds like something you’d like, I’ll be you know what to do.
Matt Wagner not only draws a great Batman, but has also created many great Batman stories. Come this June, DC Comics is releasing Legends of the Dark Knight: Matt Wagner with a bunch of them.
Matt Wagner’s prolific run on Batman is collected in one place for the first time ever. From a mad scientist who has created a race of giant monster men to do his bidding, to Batman encountering sinister machinations and new dimensions of wickedness as he confronts the hooded menace of the Mad Monk, there’s plenty of horror and action!
Collects issues Batman #626-641 and #54 (2016), Batman and the Monster Men #1-6, Batman Black and White #3, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #28-30, Batman: The Mad Monk #1-6, Detective Comics #647-649, Robin II: Joker’s Wild #1 and Batman: Riddler — The Riddle Factory.
Legends of the Dark Knight: Matt Wagner is available for pre-order now!
Mike Zeck’s Batman gets the spotlight… and deservedly so.
Above is a pretty rare video of Lyle Waggoner & Peter Deyell and Adam West & Burt Ward in screen tests for the original Batman TV series. While Waggoner looked more like Bruce Wayne, West was the right choice.
I love this Jurassic Park poster by Paul Mann. You can see a bigger version at Alternative Movie Poster Movement. If you like what you can see, you should click over to Paul Mann’s site and check out his portfolio. There you’ll find more of Mann’s posters, prints and original art.
How about this rare unused poster comp by Steve Chorney for Big Trouble in Little China? You can see a bigger version of it and another color comp that Chorney did for BTiLC at Brandon Schaefer’s Twitter.
If you haven’t watched Ozark, you might want to give it a try. Season 3 is coming, but below is a trailer to give you a taste.
Official Recap for Ozark Season 2. The Byrde family drama ramps up as their money laundering operation in the Ozarks region grows more powerful and complex, drawing them further into the criminal world. Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, and Julia Garner return to their roles for Ozark Season 3, arriving on Netflix March 27, 2020.
Here’s a third poster for Arkansas. It’s interesting… I like it.
They’ve announced the next Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novel. It’ll be called Someone to Watch Over Me and Ace Atkins will again (yea!) be the writer.
In this next thriller in the New York Times bestselling Parker series, Spenser and his new apprentice trace the murder of a young woman to an international crime ring that has been operating with impunity because of the powerful and highly connected billionaire at its helm.
Ten years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother’s killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie–a college student with a side job working for the iconic private eye–dreams of being an investigator herself. When Mattie’s childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects, Chloe Turner, is found dead, she decides to take on the case for the family. Taking a cue from her boss, Mattie has a knack for asking the right questions to the wrong people.
Soon, Spenser and Mattie find ties between Turner and dozens of other girls from poor families to an eccentric billionaire with a massive home along Commonwealth Avenue. The man owns properties and business throughout the Massachusetts with connections to local politicians, the state house, and beyond. As a bleak winter bears down on Boston, Spenser and trusted ally Hawk must again watch out for Mattie as she unravels a massive sex trafficking ring that will take them from Boston to the Bahamas, crossing paths with local toughs and an old enemy of Spenser’s–The Gray Man–for a final epic showdown.
Anything Atkins writes is worth getting — never read a clunker by him yet — and his Spenser novels are more than worthy successors to Parker. Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me (Spenser) by Ace Atkins is available for pre-order now and drops on November 17, 2020.
The Clover poster and trailer are here. I’m not a fan of the poster but I do like the trailer. “Clo
Dave Wachter posted the John Wick commission he completed and it’s a beaut. You can see it and more art at Dave’s Twitter!
Here is the poster and trailer for The Quarry. The poster is okay, I like the trailer more. The Quarry looks like a winner.
From the novel by Damon Galgut comes this searing thriller, a tale of sin and redemption set in the wilds of Texas. After murdering a traveling preacher, a fugitive drifter (Shea Whigham, Joker) travels to a small town and poses as the man he killed. Though the congregation loves the drifter’s sermons of forgiveness, the local police chief (Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon, The Shape of Water) is suspicious of the man. Soon a gruesome discovery at a local quarry forces the killer to fight for his freedom.
Here are two posters and a trailer for Arkansas. I like both posters – love the Arkansas logo with the skull – and the clever tag line “Kyle and Swin are working their way to the top… but the top has other plans.” The trailer shows how quirky Arkansas will be. The question is will it be too quirky?
