2019 books: 21-22

[the_siobhan]

    

Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke BC loaned me this comic book because she wanted to show me Cooke's art style. It very distinct, very spare but with a lot of expression in what feel like they should be fairly simple drawings. The story itself is about the kind of hard-bitten tough guy who takes on the mob and wins because he's just that much better than anybody else. It's a story that's been done a million times but he was one of the first.

    

Stumptown by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth I borrowed this because we've been watching the new Stumptown show and I've been really enjoying it. The main character is Private Investigator who is excellent at her job and a complete disaster in every other way possible. Also canonically bisexual, so yay for queer rep. Anyway the main character is modeled after the PI from The Rockford Files, a show I used to love when I was a kid. So it hits all the right notes for me. The first episode is the only one that bears any relation to the comic book, and the plot is similar but not identical.

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[greylock]

I loved Darwin Cooke's art. I think he and Mike Alldred were kindred spirits.

I had no idea there was a Stumptown show (not that I have read the comics).