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IDW’s Chris Ryall teases Darwyn Cooke’s next Parker book
The Score
Here’s a great way to end the week–IDW Publishing Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has been sharing teases of various 2012 IDW projects, and today’s is, literally, quite the score. Coming in May is the third Parker novel adaptation by the great Darwyn Cooke, titled Parker: The Score. It of course follows Cooke’s adaptations of Richard Stark/Donald Westlake’s The Hunter and The Outfit, both of which feature Westlake’s famous Parker character. Can’t wait!
9 Comments
Rogerio
January 6, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Cannot wait!
Darwyn is a genius!
mr. pants
January 6, 2012 at 2:33 pm
I wish he would make something of his own rather than do just plain work for hire.
JRC
January 6, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Not to nitpick Mr. Pants, but these PARKER books aren’t work for hire, it’s a project Cooke personally worked to make happen. Not the same as an original piece, but he’s definitely personally invested in the project.
Aside: Has Cooke done much all original work? What should I look to pickup?
mr. pants
January 6, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. He’s still probably getting page rate for them. I’d rather he actually own the stuff he’s working on rather than just rent his skills out.
Kenozoic
January 6, 2012 at 7:31 pm
I am SO psyched I can’t sit still. :Þ
Steve Rotterdam
January 6, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Fantastic!
Rob
January 7, 2012 at 1:09 am
I bought the first two books while on my holiday in New York in 2010. Cannot wait for this one to be released. Such fantastic reads.
Chris Schillig
January 7, 2012 at 6:42 am
The first two volumes are outstanding. I will definitely pick up the third. (And the original novels are great fun, too.)
Cole Moore Odell
January 9, 2012 at 7:43 am
@mr. pants: not everyone has inclination or ability for great, entirely original work. Cooke’s career in comics has demonstrated that he’s a great craftsman more than a Kirby-style idea factory, or a Hernandez-style novelist, so design, storytelling and drawing are where he focuses his efforts. I’m fine with that. He put this whole project together himself out of a very personal affection for the original novels, and the cartooning is magnificent. I don’t need Cooke to follow somebody’s else’s career path; the one he’s on is just fine.