Stumptown – A Study In Retro Noir
If you missed Stumptown then you might not be blamed for the omission in your reading stack. Hell, even if you got the comic you might have missed the subsequent issues because the four issue debut arc took ten months to complete. The series kicked off plagued with timing issues but in the end the [...]
Crime Comics for One and All (Except Cozy Fans, regrettably)!
If you’re all caught up with the big-name crime comics like Scalped and Criminal, indulge the Nerd of Noir while he slams some more awesome down on your TBR pile. He’s got three recs for you that cover three different subgenres of crime fiction. Yeah, it’s a tall order, but he’s serving it up.
Read more about the Nerd’s crime-comic special after the jump…
Stumptown #1 by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth – review
At it’s simplest and most reductive, Stumptown is to the PI genre what Queen and Country is to the spy genre. Rucka is an ardent fan, student of the genre (he wrote a thesis paper in school on the American PI), and longtime creator of PI stories. Plus, he does wonderful things when he’s at Oni Press. The result here is that Stumptown is off to an auspicious start, and if it continues on the trajectory started here, then it could become one of the better crime comic books on the market.
Full review after the jump…
Kate Beckinsale talks Whiteout
Shocktillyoudrop has a little Whiteout featurette, which includes video interviews with Kate Beckinsale, Alex O’Loughlin and Gabriel Macht from the film adaptation of the comic by Greg Rucka and Steve Leiber. At the end of late month we posted seven clips from the film.
Watch it after the jump…
Kate Beckinsale in 7 Whiteout clips
There actually were some promo images that popped up this week as well, but they are honestly pretty weak as in a film like Whiteout you have to either show me asskicking or Beckinsale (or a combo of both), not snowy plains with Beckisnale under 10 layers. Next time Rucka, let’s take it to sweltering South American jungles (or better yet, pitch a Beckinsale Wonder Woman treatment!). We do have 7 seven clips now, which you can watch with the trailer (re)released in July.
Watch them after the jump…
Greg Rucka’s Queen & Country gets new screenwriter
I always say this when it comes to news related to comic book adaptations that aren’t actual release dates or the beginning of filming, but the most important these announcements do is afford (or give reason) to) larger sites (the film sites) to mention awesome projects that you need to be reading, and the talent behind them. The ‘news’ (via THR) is that a possible Queen & Country adaptation has an upcoming screen writer now attached to it in Ryan Condal. That’s wonderful, but what you need to do is go out and buy Rucka’s Queen & Country right now!
More after the jump..
Kate Beckinsale’s front and center in Whiteout Poster
Kate Beckinsale causing a ruck(a)us is all I need to know ever since we saw the trailer last month, and now she’s all in our face with this new poster released by Myspace. I actually have a novel by Rucka to be read pretty soon and will offer thoughts on that when I’m done.
Check it out after the jump…
Whiteout trailer – Kate Beckinsale getting Rucka
I don’t even know what that means, but Greg Rucka needs to be at SDCC and just flip out on somebody and say, “You don’t want it to get all Rucka in here!.” In June we got a trailer for Whiteout that was pulled soon after. Now we have an official release that IGN brought to the net.
Check it out after the jump . . .
