Tucker Stone

Following on the heels of Darwyn Cooke's bestselling adaptation of "The Hunter," this week sees the release of "The Outfit," the third book in Donald Westlake's legendary Parker series of crime novels. A whirlwind book that sees the inscrutable criminal facing off against the organized crime of 1963, Cooke's "Outfit" picks up right where "The Hunter" left o

Following on the heels of Darwyn Cooke's bestselling adaptation of "The Hunter," this week sees the release of "The Outfit," the third book in Donald Westlake's legendary Parker series of crime novels. A whirlwind book that sees the inscrutable criminal facing off against the organized crime of 1963, Cooke's "Outfit" picks up right where "The Hunter" left o

Prev "I think Cooke is doing some really interesting stuff with very specific framing and stage blocking -- moving the reader around the page AND in a style that is built for such a movement. it's a 'language' that has gone the way of the Dodo in comics, and Cooke manages to do it without it feeling like a 'throwback' style, yet it fits perfectly with the material he's adapting... Read Mor

Prev "Darwyn's adaptation of 'The Hunter' mirrors its main character: tough, no-nonsense, and deadly -- no, elegantly -- efficient. Not a wasted line anywhere, in the prose or the drawing, it's a high-wire act. Darwyn was able to take Westlake's novel and make me feel as though it were always a comic...

Prev "It was Archie Goodwin, in the course of weaning me away from science fiction and shoving crime fiction down my throat, who first introduced me to Donald Westlake and Richard Stark. There have been a number of attempts to bring Parker to comics, but all fell apart, so I remain mystified that it took so long, and delighted that it finally happened in so compelling and well made a packa

Prev Tucker Stone: After seeing the large format of "The Man With the Getaway Face" comic that you and IDW put out, I started to wonder if you're going to end up with a bunch of new versions of this series down the line...