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…
You Have Killed Me by Jamie S. Rich and Joelle Jones review
Things just can’t get any worse for Antonio Mercer. He is a private eye by trade, and a dame from his past has re-surfaced in his life as a client along with all of the emotional baggage he thought he’d left behind forever. Of course, this unusual client doesn’t have just any case – her family is mixed up with seriously dangerous people and the body count is just starting to pile up!
Read the review 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..
Comic Book Review – Courtney Crumrin And The Night Things
Writer: Ted Naifeh Penciler: Ted Naifeh Cover Artist: Ted Naifeh Publisher: Oni Press Publication Date: May 2003 Format: TPB Courtney Crumrin is a young girl who has just been forced to move to a new town by her daft parents who have run up enough debt to rival any teen with a credit card. The [...]
