San Diego, CA (March 26, 2010) – IDW Publishing and award-winning creator Darwyn Cooke are pleased to announce an exclusive prelude to The Outfit, the second of Richard Stark‘s Parker novels that Cooke is adapting. Cooke‘s initial Parker release, The Hunter, has been a critical and popular success, appearing on over 50 “best of the year” lists as well as the New York Times best-seller list.
Titled The Man With the Getaway Face: A Prelude to the Outfit, a limited number of copies will debut next week in San Francisco at WonderCon, one of the country’s leading comics and pop culture conventions. This 8″x12″ preview book offers one entire chapter of The Outfit and will be included in the finished graphic novel, coming in October. Available for the bargain price of $2.00, the prelude will offer fans a beautiful introduction to The Outfit. Cooke, a special guest of WonderCon, will be on hand to sign copies at the IDW booth #519. WonderCon will be held April 2nd through the 4th at the Moscone Center.
“The Man with the Getaway Face special is a fun and inexpensive way for new readers to check out Richard Stark‘s famous master criminal,” commented Cooke. “It’s our hope that this oversized, underpriced kidney punch will pull them in to the violent world of Parker.”
Full story here.
And here’s a teaser frame from the upcoming book.
(Thanks to Patrick.)
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Alright!!! About time that we got another taste of Cooke’s “Parker”.Going to try to head up to
Wonder-Con this Sunday to try to get one.The teaser image closed me on this.
James:
If you (or any other reader) could pick me up a copy, I’d deeply appreciate it.
–Trent
If I remember correctly the next graphic novel should be The Outfit but with the face change surgery from Getaway Face.
Matthew,
I got to meet Darwyn at the SDCC 09 and his statment was that,TMWTGF,was about 15% Parker
& 85% about the Doctor/Cook/Driver Subplot.So what we are getting is the Parker part of the novel and then on to “The Outfit”,so he “Combo-ed” the two together to make the one story flow. Trent,no promises,brother,but I’ll try to get you a signed copy.(What sucks is I HAVE to work tomorrow so I hope they don’t sell out!)
According to this:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1004/03/idw.htm
The Outfit is scheduled foe October