Mystery & Crime, Comics & Graphic Novels
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Overview
After he evens the score with those who betrayed him and recovers the money he was cheated out of from the syndicate, Parker is riding high, living in swank hotels and enjoying the finer things in life again. Until, that is, he's fingered by a squealer who rats him out to The Outfit for the price they put on his head... and they find out too late that if you push Parker, it better be all the way into the grave!Darwyn Cooke, multiple Eisner-Award winning creator of such works as DC: The New Frontier and Selina's Big Score, now follows up The Hunter with the forthcoming release of The Outfit, the second of four planned adaptations of Richard Stark's Parker novels.
Winner of the 2011 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist
Synopsis
After he evens the score with those who betrayed him and recovers the money he was cheated out of from the syndicate, Parker is riding high, living in swank hotels and enjoying the finer things in life again. Until, that is, he's fingered by a squealer who rats him out to The Outfit for the price they put on his head... and they find out too late that if you push Parker, it better be all the way into the grave!
Darwyn Cooke, multiple Eisner-Award winning creator of such works as DC: The New Frontier and Selina's Big Score, now follows up The Hunter with the forthcoming release of The Outfit, the second of four planned adaptations of Richard Stark's Parker novels.
Editorials
Douglas Wolk
Cooke distills Westlake's lean prose to concentrated bursts of scruffy chiaroscuro, looming negative space, pacing-tiger tension and ice-cold violence. The highlight is the middle section, in which Parker's associates carry out a series of raids on mob assets. Each sequence evokes a different early-'60s idiom—men's magazine illustration, low-budget animation storyboard, pulp-novel cover. Cooke's glee is palpable…—The New York Times
Book Details
Published
October 1, 2010
Publisher
Idea & Design Works, LLC
Pages
160
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781600107627