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Parker The Score

by Darwyn Cooke
Parker The Score

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ISBN13: 9781613772089
ISBN10: 1613772084
Condition: Standard
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Parker becomes embroiled in a plot with a dozen partners in crime to pull off what might be the ultimate heist -- robbing an entire town. Everything was going fine for a while, and then things got bad. Considered one of the best in the Parker series, The Score is the perfect vehicle for Darwyn Cooke to pull out all the stops and let loose with a book that has all the impact of a brutal kick to the solar plexus

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A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find to knock over his most audacious target yet: an entire town. They scheme, they prepare, and they execute with military precision, unaware that the whole thing is about to blow up in their faces. Long considered a high water mark in the Parker series, this new graphic adaptation brings the original to violent, double-crossing life.

Darwyn Cooke, Eisner-Award winning creator of DC: The New Frontier, continues adapting Richard Stark's genre-defining Parker novels with his signature pulp flair in this third installment. A hard-nosed thief, Parker is Richard Stark's most famous creation, and Stark, in turn, is the most famous pen name of Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake.


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P.M. Bradshaw , February 23, 2015 (view all comments by P.M. Bradshaw)
Darwyn Cooke is one of the best things happening in comics today. His take on the new Before Watchmen series ��" The Minutemen, as well as Catwoman, and the first two ‘Parker’ novels are nothing short of brilliant! That’s why it pains me to say that the Score is good, but not great. To be fair, I don’t think this is Cooke's fault. His two-color, noir artwork is glorious again. But the story itself is a bit ponderous. With a 12-man team, and five or six locals, and five or six others, there are simply too many characters. The Hunter moved at a brisk pace, in part because of the smallish world it inhabited. In ‘The Score’ the voluminous characters bogs things down, and this is true of the original novel as well. Not enough time is afforded to the Edgars character, for example, to make much of an impact before the conclusion. That being said, this is still on a higher level than quite a bit of what’s coming out today. If you don’t already have the first two, I suggest you get ‘Parker: The Martini Edition’ instead. It has the first two graphic novels ��" The Hunter and The Outfit, and also the in-between, stand-alone story The Man With the Getaway Face.

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P.M. Bradshaw , August 06, 2012 (view all comments by P.M. Bradshaw)
Darwyn Cooke is one of the best things happening in comics today. His take on the new Before Watchmen series ��" The Minutemen, as well as Catwoman, and the first two ‘Parker’ novels are nothing short of brilliant! That’s why it pains me to say that the Score is good, but not great. To be fair, I don’t think this is Cooke's fault. His two-color, noir artwork is glorious again. But the story itself is a bit ponderous. With a 12-man team, and five or six locals, and five or six others, there are simply too many characters. The Hunter moved at a brisk pace, in part because of the smallish world it inhabited. In ‘The Score’ the voluminous characters bogs things down, and this is true of the original novel as well. Not enough time is afforded to the Edgars character, for example, to make much of an impact before the conclusion. That being said, this is still on a higher level than quite a bit of what’s coming out today. If you don’t already have the first two, I suggest you get ‘Parker: The Martini Edition’ instead. It has the first two graphic novels ��" The Hunter and The Outfit, and also the in-between, stand-alone story The Man With the Getaway Face.

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marimello , August 04, 2012
As a Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake) fan, I am really excited about Darwyn Cooke's graphic novel adaptation of The Score. Fans of the original crime novels will not be disappointed by Cooke's take on Parker. Fans of Cooke (who probably read the first two--The Hunter and The Outfit) will be glad to see Parker back in action. Both camps should be excited to hear that more are in the works! Cold and ruthless, charismatic and thuggish, Parker is only likeable in that he's usually up against something or some one even worse than he is. In The Score, Parker joins up with a crew whose plan seems at first sight too flawed and too outlandish. Parker fans will know this isn't the type of heist to send Parker packing.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781613772089
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
07/24/2012
Publisher:
IDW PUBLISHING
Series info:
Richard Stark's Parker
Pages:
144
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.80IN
Thickness:
1.00
Series:
Parker
Series Number:
3
Age Range:
16 and up
Grade Range:
11 and up
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Richard Stark
Author:
Darwyn Cooke
Editor:
Scott Dunbier
Editor:
Scott Dunbier
Author:
Scott (EDT) Dunbier
Author:
Darwyn Cooke
Editor:
Scott Dunbier
Editor:
Scott Dunbier
Subject:
Graphic Novels-Crime and Mystery

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