LA Times Praises Darwyn Cooke’s Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter

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In an article appearing in Monday's edition of the Los Angeles Times as well as on its website, Geoff Boucher recently applauded the work of fan-favorite creator Darwyn Cooke on IDW Publishing’s Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter, the first of several adaptations of the Parker crime novels planned by Cooke.

“'The Hunter': Darwyn Cooke and Donald Westlake Pull Off the Perfect Crime” was featured on the cover of Monday’s Los Angeles Times Calendar section, while a longer version is also posted online. Read it here.

In the late 1960s, writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark, author Westlake created and used the complex character of Parker in an enduring series of crime novels. Now Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit) brings jarring criminal stories to comics, beginning with The Hunter.

The Los Angeles Times article features a number of quotes from Cooke providing insight on his creative process and love for the source material, and Boucher writes that the “Cooke adaptation [of The Hunter] is already being hailed as a masterpiece by key tastemakers in the comics world.”

With Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke shows us that pulp fiction can be just as much fun as slamming villains named after waterfowl. For a look at this book, click on the link at the top of this article. With the exception of one choice phrase, you are actually seeing the opening sequence for this book, which deliberately omits word balloons.

Pick it up at a comic shop near you.