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(NB: This post also appears on Existential Ennui.) For Part 1, go here. Seven years after ruthless career criminal (and Parker parallel) Earl Drake made his debut in Dan J. Marlowe‘s violent, twisted The Name of the Game is Death (Gold Medal, 1962), Drake returned to print in a new full-length [...] 
People are cynical about repackagings, and they should be. How many cuts of Blade Runner are there now? I think there’s a box set to collect them all. And I will fully acknowledge that when I first heard about this project, the song that popped into my head was “Paint a Vulgar Picture” [...] Today’s guest piece is by Nick Jones, AKA Louis XIV, who blogs about books (and sometimes comics) at Existential Ennui. You may be (should be!) familiar with him, because I’ve frequently linked both his book reviews and the great covers he digs up as he obsessively collects Stark and Westlake titles. In fact, I’ve [...] Update: This review is a first draft. The current version is here. The sheer brutality of The Hunter was unsustainable for a series, and Richard Stark didn’t attempt it. Rather, he took the character and universe of The Hunter and used them for more complex tales of amorality. This isn’t to say that [...] I’ve had a very hectic time since Independence Day, and as a consequence, dropped the ball on a few items of importance. Here’s my makeup post. To Twitter followers of the site–sorry about the avalanche of posts in the past 24 hours or so. The main purpose of the Twitter account is to [...] I posted an ad that featured this cover art earlier. Here is the standalone cover. I mentioned this on Twitter, but it deserves more attention: a six-page preview for The Outfit (drawn from The Man With the Getaway Face portion) is available here. (Thanks to [...] The Man With the Getaway Face, in case you missed it earlier, is not a freestanding sequel to Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter. Rather, Darwyn has condensed Getaway Face into a prelude to his adaptation of The Outfit, where it will serve as the first chapter when The Outfit is released in October. It [...]
Reader (and crime novelist) Wallace Stroby alerts us to this problem with the University of Chicago’s reprint of The Man With the Getaway Face. Has anyone else noticed that the University of Chicago edition of MAN WITH THE GETAWAY FACE – in addition to having a lot of typos [...] |
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