Face-Off with Parker.
At 24 over-sized pages for $2 you should of been sold and picked this up at your local comic shop.
Darwyn Cooke shakes up the Parker books he was going to adapt. The Man with the Getaway Face survives in this 24-Page stand alone Preview. No longer a book on its own, it sums up the only important parts of "The Man with the Getaway Face", which is more crime and a new face.
As a stand alone it can be read without reading The Hunter. Parker looks different now anyways and The Hunter was adapted in to movies called Point Blank and Pay Back. I do suggest reading Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of The Hunter it is great! From reading The Hunter this comic feels too short and is a great tease to tie me over till the Outfit comes out.
The art style is very appropriate for the tone of the book. Very 60s pulp with the black and white shading, with only sandy tones of colors. It is a small color palette, but it works. As for the story it is a quick heist story. Darwyn Cooke is great at illustrating and pacing a heist story in comics, if you have read Selina's Big Score you know what I mean. There are pages of great silent narration paired with pages of longer dialog and subtle imagery.
Overall this was $2 well spent. Great story, great art, good quality fun.
Cheers!
- Silkcuts