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| Original Title: | Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground |
| ISBN: | 1613778120 (ISBN13: 9781613778128) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Parker Graphic Novels #4 |
| Literary Awards: | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Adaptation from Another Medium & Best Lettering (for Darwyn Cooke) (2014) |
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Hardcover | Pages: 96 pages Rating: 4.05 | 1196 Users | 126 Reviews
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Darwyn Cooke's masterful and multi award-winning series of Parker graphic novels continues with Slayground! Parker, whose getaway car crashes after a heist, manages to elude capture with his loot by breaking into an amusement park that is closed for the winter. But his presence does not go unnoticed - a pair of cops observed the job and its aftermath. But rather than pursue their suspect... they decide to go into business for themselves, with the help of some "business associates." From then on it's a game of cat and mouse, one played out through closed rides of the abandoned carnival... a game that slowly starts to favor the mouse. Includes the Eisner award-winning short story "The 7th," previously only available in the Martini edition!
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| Title | : | Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground (Parker Graphic Novels #4) |
| Author | : | Darwyn Cooke |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 96 pages |
| Published | : | December 24th 2013 by IDW Publishing (first published December 17th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Mystery. Crime. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 1196 Users | 126 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground (Parker Graphic Novels #4)
Parker is a hide and a robber. A pro. Lethal and unmerciful. First story, he escapes into an amusement park after a bungled robbery and is hunted by mobsters. In the second, another bungled robbery, and he takes care of loose ends. Competent, very readable, fairly enjoyable, but I am not much for his kind of story really.The last of Cookes stunningly cool Parker adaptations ends with one of the best of the novels captured in graphic novel format. My only regret is having no more to read. Belongs on any fan of hard-boiled crime fictions bookshelf.
Cooke is always good. Not having read the original Stark novel, I'm unsure how it compares. But the story seems tightly told. It's a little on the short side, compared to the earlier books, though.
2016 killed so many talented people that it got hard to keep track after a while, and one of its overlooked victims was Darwyn Cooke who died of cancer last spring. Knowing that, I held off on reading this for some time because its going to be the last time I get to crack open one of Cookes fantastic adaptations of the Parker series and get to enjoy his illustrated interpretations of one of my favorite crime fiction characters.At least it ends on a high note with Cookes version of Richard Starks
It's like if James Bond and Danny Ocean had a baby together. I gotta get the actual book series started.
After four books the art is the only thing I liked . The story is ordinary felt outdated.I found it tedious to finish them. this was was so short it felt like a bad joker story since Parker is stuck in an amusement park, no twist ,nothing interesting. The main character is so bland .
Who does not like a Parker tale in a different medium as I have read before and the economic style of drawing does fit the style Richard Stark used to write his novels but while I have fond memories of the Slayground book I found this comic somewhat not covering the suspense of the original version by its original writer.I like comics but in this instance I found myself a bit shortchanged as I really enjoy the Parker novels and think that perhaps the comics were not meant for me.Slayground is
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