Duane Swierczynski and a Dynamite “Ex-Con”
Hearing that Duane Swierczynski is writing an new series called Ex-Con for Dynamite Crime had me smiling enough to star in one of those many “happier than“ Geico commercials.
I’ve been a Duane Swierczynski fan since I first read The Wheelman almost seven years ago. Since then I’ve read and enjoyed every one of Swierczynski’s crime novels. Ex-Con sounds like a winner. Here’s how Swierczynski describes it…
As the name implies, we’re going to be following a jailbird freshly sprung from San Quentin after five brutal years… This is a high-level con artist who thought he could out-think the cops, his marks, his competitors — pretty much everybody — and five years later, he’s still reeling. To stay alive inside, he had to promise a favor to a convict who’s pretty much a living nightmare in a cage, and now that our man is out, he dreads having to pay up…
With Swierczynski writing and Tim Bradstreet providing the covers, the only thing left to take this series to the top is the right interior artist. Unfortunately, one hasn’t been chosen yet.
Two artists that came to mind for something like this are Phil Hester and Cully Hamner. I have no idea if Hester or Hamner would be considered or if they would want to do the series, but from this fan’s perspective, they were the first two artists that I thought of.
Thanks and an early parole to Comicosity and CBR.com for droppin’ a dime.
[And if you’re looking for a great crime comic to read NOW, you can’t do better than the FREE webcomic Gravedigger by Christopher Mills and Rick Burchett.]
