Feb. 21st, 2010

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Richard Stark's Parker the Hunter adapted and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke

Most of you are probably more familiar with this one as the movie adaption Payback with Mel Gibson. Or maybe even the '67 Point Blank with Lee Marvin. But the Parker in those two is a cuddly puppy of love and forgiveness compared to the original. And that brutal bastard is the one you see in Cooke's adaptation. This Parker is out for revenge and his missing money. But he wasn't so much betrayed and robbed as beaten to the punch. Parker is a master thief and a cold-hearted machine...

And not enough can be said about Cooke's art here. His simple inks evoke the noir style better than anything I can think of elsewhere. Cooke brings the full emotion of the story to..well not the light. But to well-defined shadows...
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