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I Reads You Review: RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: The Score (Book Three)

RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE SCORE (BOOK THREE)
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CARTOONIST: Darwyn Cooke
EDITOR: Scott Dunbier
ISBN: 978-1613772089; hardcover (July 24, 2012)
144pp, 2-Color, $24.99 U.S.

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score is a 2012 graphic novel written and drawn by cartoonist, Darwyn Cooke.  It is a comic book adaptation of the 1964 novel, The Score, by Richard Stark, a pseudonym of the late author Donald E. Westlake.

The Score, also published under the title, Killtown, is the fifth novel starring Parker, the master thief and ruthless criminal who is Westlake’s signature character.  Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score is Darwyn Cooke’s third graphic novel adaptation of the Parker novels, following The Hunter (2009) and The Outfit (2010).

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score opens in Jersey City on Monday, April 13, 1964.  Parker is there for a meeting with Paulus about an upcoming job, but the job isn’t Paulus’ idea.  This operation is the brainchild of Edgars, someone who is both an amateur and someone unknown to Parker.  Parker should refuse the job and walk out, but he doesn’t.

Edgar proposes a grand robbery; the target – an entire town.  According to Edgar, a cool quarter of a million dollars is there for the taking in the mining town of Copper Canyon, North Dakota.  It’s like science fiction, thinks Parker, a job with too many rules and set up by an amateur.  Still, he’s intrigued, and he assembles a team of 12 to knock over a town.  Parker, Edgars, Paulus, Grofield, Wycza, Wiss, Palm, Elkins, Chambers, Cho, Salsa, and “Pop” Phillips.  But it’s all going to blow up in their faces.

I have praised Darwyn Cooke’s Parker graphic novels so much that I think I’ve run out of words that I can use for more praise.  Speaking of praise, maybe I should get Biblical on this review.  Seriously folks, Parker: The Score is so f-word + ing good.

Like the two before it, Parker: The Score is a great crime comic, obviously.  I think what makes it a superior work of comics and storytelling is that for all its crime genre trappings, Parker: The Score balances classic elements of storytelling.  Over the years, I have learned that storytelling is about plot, setting, and characters – especially the last one.  Parker: The Score balances all three.  It flows like a lush jazz composition played by an orchestra not afraid of finding the brash rhythms and strident moments or even the dark mood in the last act.

Cooke makes the setting, Copper Canyon, also a character.  The town is a she, a siren that entices with the treasure she holds within her – ready to be plucked by any ambitious man or group of men that think it is worth the risk of crashing and burning.

Cooke takes some of the characters:  Parker, Edgar, and Grofield, to name a few, and makes them, specifically their actions and motivations, the plot.  They drive the story even more so than the primary plot, which is about the planning and execution of the robbery.

Which brings us to the setting:  it is the robbery itself.  Parker and company and Copper Canyon are brought to this thing that is also a place:  the act and planning of a robbery.  It is where characters and setting meet in order to do their thing.  Cooke presents the fundamentals and elements of the story in such a way that they function as they should.  They also break the boundaries and expand the story beyond their function.

Parker: The Score is such a beautifully drawn and designed book.  Cooke’s style, which resembles the work of cartoonists such as Alex Toth, Will Eisner, Steve Ditko, and John Romita, is always attractive.  It is the storytelling at the core of his art, however, that is important.  He uses the overall graphic design of the page and the design of the elements and contents of individual panels not just as compositional elements, but also as the storytelling.  Thus, this book of striking images is more than just pretty pictures.  It is that kind of storytelling that has been grabbing the human imagination for a long time, or so I’m told.  Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score: you need to score one.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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Review: RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: The Hunter (Book One)

RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE HUNTER (BOOK ONE)
IDW PUBLISHING – @IDWPublishing

CARTOONIST: Darwyn Cooke
EDITOR: Scott Dunbier
ISBN: 978-160010-493-0; hardcover (July 28, 2009)
140pp, 2-Color, $24.99 US

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter is a 2009 graphic novel written and drawn by cartoonist, Darwyn Cooke.  Originally published as a hardcover, Parker: The Hunter is based on the 1962 crime novel, The Hunter, written by Donald E. Westlake (under his pseudonym Richard Stark).  The Hunter introduces the enduring and ruthless career criminal, Parker (whose first name is never mentioned in any of the 24 “Parker” novels).

When IDW announced in 2008 that acclaimed comic book creator Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit) was adapting four of author Westlake’s “Parker” books as graphic novels, fans were excited.  This was probably especially true of readers looking forward to what would hopefully be a great crime comic book.  With the release of the first Parker graphic novel, The Hunter, fans of crime comics got their wish.

However, Parker: The Hunter is not just a fine crime comic book, but it is also an outstanding comic book.  In his adaptation, Cooke even remains faithful to the original novel’s uncomplicated plot.

Parker arrives in New York City with a head of steam, as he scams and schemes his way to a little financial stability.  He only needs a little stability, just enough to begin to get payback.  Parker’s mission begins the woman who betrayed him – the woman who shot Parker just above the belt and left him for dead – his wife Lynn Parker.  She’s the key to Parker discovering the whereabouts of Mal Resnick, the partner who double-crossed him after a successful heist.  Parker, however, wants more than to just coldly exact revenge; he also wants back everything that was taken from him, including the money Resnick stole from him, and that will pit Parker against Resnick’s employers, The Outfit.

Is The Hunter a great crime comic?  It certainly could be considered as such.  Is it a faithful adaptation of the source?  Yes, it is – quite so, but The Hunter is something else, also.  It’s a terrific comic book, plain and simple.  Darwyn Cooke has taken Westlake’s first Parker novel, a story that has already been told, and Cooke retells it in a new voice.  This is Cooke’s voice – the graphic novel as only he can do it.  Cooke blends words/text, pictures in sequence, portraits, cityscapes, and single illustrations into a graphic work that does more than just adapt The Hunter into comics form.  It is something new; it is Parker and his world as they’ve never before been.

With modern crime comics, sometimes the emphasis is either on drawing stylish art that will have a “film noir feel” (even in full-color crime comics) or stories that “play with crime genre conventions.”  Cooke’s The Hunter is certainly visually stylish.  The elements of line, shape, value, texture, and color are hardboiled.  In terms of components and principles of art, Cooke’s work here has a passing resemblance to the comics of Will Eisner and Alex Toth, both noted for their cinematic visual motifs.  However, ultimately the art direction, graphic design and composition, both as style and as storytelling, make The Hunter something different.  Whereas other creators may be concerned about crime comics that have a general visual style or specific narrative conventions, Cooke reaches beyond convention simply to tell a great story with wide appeal.

The parts of Westlake’s text that Cooke uses as word balloons and in captions, he also brings to life with his art.  The art establishes story, especially the first 24 pages, in which Cooke efficiently reveals to the reader Parkers abilities and his aptitude as a criminal.

Cooke detailed renderings of New York City, 1962, brings us to a hustling, diverse city of distinct locales and varied local colors.  From the bustle of the subway to greasy diners manned by saucy waitresses, Cooke establishes the world in which Parker will make his long, slow, but relentless climb up the hill to revenge.  Look at this book long enough and it is obvious that Cooke put so much thought into creating The Hunter’s environments via art direction and set decoration.  There’s the cool, ultra-modern of Lynn Parker’s apartment, bought with ill-gotten gains.  That actually pales next to the spotless, space-age elegance of the lobby at Frederick Carter Investments.  Whatever the setting, Cooke’s deft touch at fashioning the milieu of Parker’s world brings the story alive and brings the reader into that world.

Ultimately, The Hunter will be judged on how well Cooke tells a story, more so than on how pretty the art looks or how much the art fits a genre.  Every panel and every page connects in one fantastic tale of a man who simply wishes to balance the scales in his favor.  Yeah, Parker is a ruthless criminal and murderer, but in the world in which he lives, he earned what is his.  All he wants to do is get that back.

Decades ago, Donald Westlake began an epic journey convincing readers that Parker was doing the right thing as Parker saw it, and that first book, The Hunter, was a terrific book of crime fiction.  Nearly 50 years later, Cooke retells that story in his own unique voice, and as expected, Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter is a superb comic book – in whatever genre one might place it.  It is a graphic novel better than most and as good as the best.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

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I Reads You Review: PARKER THE OUTFIT

Creator: Darwyn Cooke

Publishing Information: IDW, hardcover-2-color, 158pp, $24.99 (US)

Ordering Numbers: ISBN: 978-1600107627 (ISBN-13)

Parker is a fictional character created by Richard Stark, a pseudonym of author Donald E. Westlake. Beginning with The Hunter in 1962, Westlake wrote 24 novels starring Parker, a ruthless career criminal whose first name Westlake never revealed. Acclaimed cartoonist and comic book creator, Darwyn Cooke is adapting four Parker novels into graphic novels. IDW published the first, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter in 2009.

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit is an adaptation of the third Parker novel, The Outfit (1963), although the opening pages of the graphic novel is a partial adaptation of the second Parker novel, The Man with the Getaway Face (1963). Parker: The Outfit opens in Miami Beach, 1963. Parker is… chilling’ with a honey when someone tries to kill him. Some investigating, some fists, and a few shots to the dome later, Parker learns that the Outfit, the criminal organization that he angered in The Hunter, has put a price on his head. Now, Parker is coming for the Outfit’s East Coast chief and he isn’t coming alone.

Parker: The Hunter was a superb graphic novel. Cooke’s beautiful artwork emulated the animation design and space age graphic design styles of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Hunter was a pretty book, and Cooke created a gorgeous-looking world for Parker, filled with snazzy interiors and striking exteriors. Parker: The Outfit is not so pretty, because pretty just won’t do for such a brilliant, gritty story. Plus, the hardcover book binding, designed by Cooke, is meant to resemble a library bound book.

In The Outfit, Cooke still dresses his compositions in generous splashes of black and cobalt blue. It is like a bizarre marriage of Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro and Alex Toth’s black and white comic book art. This is the perfect look for Parker: The Outfit, which is one mean, little book. Parker: The Hunter was the cool, good-looking introduction to Parker. Parker: The Outfit is the smack in the face that bloodies your nose and is the real introduction to Parker – cold, methodical, ruthlessly efficient, and professional.

As much as I like crime comics like 100 Bullets and Criminal, I realize that they are just playing at being crime comics and noir. When it comes to crime fiction, Parker: The Outfit is the real deal. This story is Parker in all his murderous glory. Reading it is like holding a dangerous thing in your hand. In this story, business is a criminal enterprise and being hard is the most valuable skill. And brother, Parker is hard. Parker: The Outfit may be the greatest crime fiction ever done in a comic book. It is the book of the year and the bastard of the year – just the way crime comics should be.

A+