Showing posts with label parker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parker. Show all posts

Friday, July 5, 2013

Review: Batman '66 #1


When it comes to alternate media, it's actually rather difficult to translate the exact same feeling of watching the show, film, cartoon, or whathaveyou that you're trying to replicate within the pages of a comic book. And while one would think that translating an actual property based on a comic book would be a helluvalot easier to accomplish, it's actually alot rarer than you think to get it right. Everything from the many Batman movies and animated series to the current CW hit, Arrow, has been given a comic book adaptation and it's been brought to panel-by-panel life to many varying results. While you could never really say that all of the Batman comics based off of The Animated Series were bad, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that could claim that they're just as good, or even a respectable replacement for just sitting down and watching the show. And let's face it, that's going to be the problem with anything based off of something inherently designed for an entirely different medium.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

"Read This, You %&*#!": Richard Stark's Parker by Darwyn Cooke


"When a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told him to go to hell."

Those were the words Donald E. Westlake used to introduce the world to Parker. A no-nonsense thief who plans revenge just as well as he would a heist, Parker is the violent anti-hero of 24 books Westlake wrote under the pen name Richard Stark. I could do a separate article on the Parker novels alone, but I won't. Instead I'll focus on the thing that's brought the Parker series back into the minds of comic and crime aficionados everywhere: Darwyn Cooke's amazing adaptations of Westlake's work.

Monday, December 31, 2012

Episode 54



In which the Sloth, Scot, and Southerner ring in the new year OPP style. After taunting one OPPer about his lack of Christmas bounty, they dive into the biggest comic of the past week before they move on to their awards for the year. From best on-going series, to best one-shot/mini, to best writer and artist, they talk about the best the year 2012 had to offer.

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