Parker: Slayground
by:
Darwyn Cooke (author)
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...
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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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781613778128 (1613778120)
Publish date: December 24th 2013
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Series: Parker Graphic Novels (#4)
This was a fantastic adaptation of the original Parker story by Richard Stark, aka Donald Westlake. The artwork especially captured the grit of the original and Cooke has managed to adapt the work to the graphic novel format flawlessly.Interestingly, after Slayground is a short based on the Parker n...
Parker is a stone cold son of a bitch. He is absolutely ruthless, completely professional, unforgiving, unyielding, unpredictable and vicious to the core. So much so that he could easily be portrayed as the antagonist of any story. And therein lies the novelty of the Parker series by Richard Stark. ...
If you first discovered this adaptation, you would never believe that it was not the original format for this story. Brilliant! http://fedpeaches.blogspot.com/2014/01/its-cold-and-im-not-having-fun-any-more.html
Darwyn Cooke’s Eisner Award winning series continues with the fourth installment, Slayground. Following a botched robbery, Parker escapes to an amusement park closed for the winter. Boxed in by gangsters and crooked cops, will Parker be able to devise a successful escape route or has his number f...