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A review by xterminal
Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter by Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke
4.0
Darwyn Cooke, Parker: The Hunter (IDW, 2009)
I am a Parker fiend, and I'm fond of Darwyn Cooke, so this seemed like a natural pairing to me. And it is; this is a lovely (if such a term can ever be used for Parker's adventures) little volume, as full of action, drama, and violence as one would expect. My only real problem with it is my only real problem with every graphic novel I adore (with the arguable exception of Bone): it's too damn short. The Hunter is a relatively short novel, and rationally I have no problems at all with Cooke's futher distillation of it into a hundred-forty-four page comic; the pacing is solid, the dialogue loses nothing, the characters are excellent. But if you grok Parker's world from the get-go, and if you're a noir fan you most likely will, then this is a world in which you willw ant ot stay for as long as possible. That is the only aspect of this book that doesn't deliver. *** ½
I am a Parker fiend, and I'm fond of Darwyn Cooke, so this seemed like a natural pairing to me. And it is; this is a lovely (if such a term can ever be used for Parker's adventures) little volume, as full of action, drama, and violence as one would expect. My only real problem with it is my only real problem with every graphic novel I adore (with the arguable exception of Bone): it's too damn short. The Hunter is a relatively short novel, and rationally I have no problems at all with Cooke's futher distillation of it into a hundred-forty-four page comic; the pacing is solid, the dialogue loses nothing, the characters are excellent. But if you grok Parker's world from the get-go, and if you're a noir fan you most likely will, then this is a world in which you willw ant ot stay for as long as possible. That is the only aspect of this book that doesn't deliver. *** ½