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"There were so many blackberries back in there that it was hard to believe. They were huge like black diamonds but it took a lot of medieval blackberry engineering, chopping entrances and laying bridges, to be successful like the siege of a castle." That's form a story called "Blackberry Motorist." The title caught my eye, as if it were written yesterday.

Thanks to reader “Uncle Crizzle” (a.k.a. Craig Lindsey) for requesting this week’s review. As always, for instructions on how to request the next review for this feature (to run in two weeks), see the bottom of this post. The more heist movies I see, the more I realize that the secret to a good one lies in three factors.

I. Your next desktop pattern? II. Your favorite president—rendered in hair. Is Franklin "Pelano" Roosevelt a beautiful typo?! (Via MUG) III. Poetry update: A) Dzyd Carla on memoirs by Manguso and Lavinia Greenlaw. B) BoingBoing picks up on R. Kikuo Johnson's "Poem as Comic Strip" take on A.E.

IDW New Titles for 2008 - 2009 July 29th, 2008--by Stephen Schleicher If you missed all of the San Diego Comic Con coverage, there was a lot of stuff going on after all, IDW has sent Major Spoilers the rundown of all the new titles the company announced for the rest of 2008 and into 2009.

I’ve written about Darwyn Cooke before, in a review of the collection of his take on Will Eisner’s Spirit. I’ve kept an eye out for more of his work since, and recently picked up his two volume exploration of the DC superhero universe’s roots, The New Frontier. As ever with Darwyn, his work looks out of time.

Darwyn Cooke to adapt "Parker" novels. Article My favourite current graphic novelist Darwyn Cooke is adapting the first four of Richard Stark's (aka Donald E. Westlake) Parker novels for IDW; 'The Hunter' (aka 'Point Blank'), 'The Man with the Getaway Face' (aka 'The Steel Hit'), 'The Outfit', and 'The Mourner'.

It can be a strange experience watching two fandoms collide. I first heard about IDW’s plans to adapt Richard Stark’s Parker novels through a crime fiction website. They didn’t mention the name of the artist involved, which left me thinking it was going to be a hack job.

Darwyn (JLA: The New Frontier) Cooke will adapt the first four "Parker" novels by Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) as a series of graphic novels for publisher IDW. The titles, which have a "mild continuity" as Cooke explained, will be: The Hunter (aka Point Blank), The Man with the Getaway Face, The Outfit, and The Mourner.

SDCC’08: Cooke on Parker July 24th, 2008--by Stephen Schleicher For those of you who have been pining away for news on Darwyn Cooke’s next project, your wait is over.  IDW Publishing announced last night that Cooke is creating four original graphic novels based on the Richard Stark “Parker” crime fiction series of books.

Stark, Richard: Ask the Parrot July 20th, 2008 Mysterious Press © 2006, 279 pages Ask the Parrot, which was published in 2006, is the latest installment in Richard Stark’s (aka Donald E. Westlake) series featuring Parker, a very smart, but not always very successful thief.