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WonderCon Offers Preview of New Darwyn Cooke Comic

So, if you go to Wonder-Con in San Francisco you have a chance to pay $2.00 to get The Man with the Getaway Face, an over-sized prelude of the new Parker book by Darwyn Cooke, The Outfit. Wonder-Con is, of course, April 2-4, 2010 at the Moscone Center. Don’t worry, if you can’t make it to Wonder-Con you can buy The Man with the Getaway Face at comic shops in July. Like I plan on doing.

First of all, how great is that title? The Man with the Getaway Face. Pulps have the best titles, don’t they?

Then we have Darwyn Cooke. Hell of a guy. Created the great miniseries DC: The New Frontier which recasts the DC Universe of the 1950s with a healthy Cold War paranoia and other contemporaneous concerns. Wrote and drew 11 of the first 12 issues of the new Spirit series and managed to keep Ebony White in the book minus all the offensive Minstrel Show-ness of the character. Oh, and he did that Wolverine/Doop two-issue comic that I dug. Fantastic artist. I really gotta pick up Batman: Ego one of these days.

That I haven’t read Darwyn Cooke’s first Parker book, The Hunter, is disgraceful, considering the original novel by Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark) was adapted into two fantastic crime flicks: Point Blank (starring a drunkenly stoic Lee Marvin) and Payback (starring a Mel Gibson-y Mel Gibson) — also, have you seen Straight Up, the director’s cut of Payback? That movie’s a mean motherfucker. Also, it was adapted into a Ringo Lam film starring Chow Yun-Fat called Full Contact, which according to Netflix I LOVED but I couldn’t tell you a thing about it except that it’s was definitely really, really violent.

Weird thing about adaptations. Nobody bats an eyelash when you adapt a book into a movie, but somehow adapting a book (or any other medium for that matter) into a comic seems strange to me. Perhaps it’s because lots of these kinds of adaptations are bastard “Classics Illustrated” affairs and most of them aren’t drawn by Darwyn Cooke. Obviously, I’m open to the idea because I’d totally read Cooke’s Parker books and one of the last great books I read was Jacques Tardi’s fantastically pulpy adaptation of West Coast Blues by Jean-Patrick Manchette. Maybe it’s pulp novels that are best suited for comic book adaptation. Something to think about, I guess.

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