Podcast Addenda as Reckless Vol 4 Hits Shelves This Week.
The Ghost In You, the 4th Reckless OGN from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, arrives this week, and so Robert Watson has released another episode of The Undertow Podcast: this time, Robert and I review the previous volume, Destroy All Monsters.
There were a few more items that didn't make the recording, all worth mentioning briefly.
We recorded Sunday night, and Ed Brubaker sent out another email newsletter Monday with a few of those items.
• Reckless Bookplate. Stores with large enough orders will include an autographed bookplate with The Ghost In You.
For this release, the bookplate features a young Anna with her Black Flag tee-shirt and the "Anna-archy" grafitti she uses to tag the front doors of the El Ricardo theater.
• Parker's Last Call, Long Overdue. Brubaker shares the good news that Parker: The Martini Edition Last Call will finally reach stores in just a few weeks. The ComicList blog has a May 4th release date for the super-deluxe collection of Darwyn Cooke's second set of Donald Westlake / Richard Stark's Parker stories, originally expected September 30th, 2020. (!!!)
Ed Brubaker evidently has his "comp copies," and we're treated with a few interior photos, including one of a group interview with Brubaker, Bruce Timm, and Scott Dunbier.
To our own greatest delight, we get a glimpse of the team's long-awaited contribution to this collection -- "TOMORROW and TOMORROW and TOMORROW, A Grofield Story by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, For Donald Westlake and Darwyn Cooke."
• Gotham Central Ominbus Returning to Stores. In addition to keeping up with Ed Brubaker's newsletter, we have a habit of checking the ComicList blog each week, and along with The Ghost In You, this week sees the release of the 2022 edition of the Gotham Central Omnibus.
The release dovetails nicely with a news item for the podcast, announcing an end-of-year release of the 2022 edition of The Sleeper Omnibus, Brubaker and Phillips' self-contained masterpiece for DC's WildStorm universe.
We list Gotham Central in our bibliography for Brubaker and Phillips, but it is an oddity in that list: the latter only worked on cover art for seven of the last eight issues, and the former stopped writing for the 40-issue series with issue #36.
Nevertheless, Gotham Central is one of the best books set in Batman's hometown. The omnibus is well worth the $100 retail price, but we're sure you can find the book for less.
• Brubaker Working on Hollywood Adaptations. Finally, returning to the newsletter, we find a bit more about one item Robert mentioned in the podcast.
We wonder which books might be adapted -- Reckless? Kill Or Be Killed? Criminal?? -- and we've been waiting for years for any such project to see more than an industry-mag announcement. When an adaptation finally is produced and released, all we will say is, it's about damn time -- and we'll have our fingers crossed that the work honors the excellent source material.
There were a few more items that didn't make the recording, all worth mentioning briefly.
We recorded Sunday night, and Ed Brubaker sent out another email newsletter Monday with a few of those items.
• Reckless Bookplate. Stores with large enough orders will include an autographed bookplate with The Ghost In You.
For this release, the bookplate features a young Anna with her Black Flag tee-shirt and the "Anna-archy" grafitti she uses to tag the front doors of the El Ricardo theater.
• Parker's Last Call, Long Overdue. Brubaker shares the good news that Parker: The Martini Edition Last Call will finally reach stores in just a few weeks. The ComicList blog has a May 4th release date for the super-deluxe collection of Darwyn Cooke's second set of Donald Westlake / Richard Stark's Parker stories, originally expected September 30th, 2020. (!!!)
Ed Brubaker evidently has his "comp copies," and we're treated with a few interior photos, including one of a group interview with Brubaker, Bruce Timm, and Scott Dunbier.
To our own greatest delight, we get a glimpse of the team's long-awaited contribution to this collection -- "TOMORROW and TOMORROW and TOMORROW, A Grofield Story by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, For Donald Westlake and Darwyn Cooke."
• Gotham Central Ominbus Returning to Stores. In addition to keeping up with Ed Brubaker's newsletter, we have a habit of checking the ComicList blog each week, and along with The Ghost In You, this week sees the release of the 2022 edition of the Gotham Central Omnibus.
The release dovetails nicely with a news item for the podcast, announcing an end-of-year release of the 2022 edition of The Sleeper Omnibus, Brubaker and Phillips' self-contained masterpiece for DC's WildStorm universe.
We list Gotham Central in our bibliography for Brubaker and Phillips, but it is an oddity in that list: the latter only worked on cover art for seven of the last eight issues, and the former stopped writing for the 40-issue series with issue #36.
Nevertheless, Gotham Central is one of the best books set in Batman's hometown. The omnibus is well worth the $100 retail price, but we're sure you can find the book for less.
• Brubaker Working on Hollywood Adaptations. Finally, returning to the newsletter, we find a bit more about one item Robert mentioned in the podcast.
The last few months has been a hectic balancing act for me. Scripts and rewrites on the Batman show, working on Reckless and Friday script pages, and the early stages of adapting a few of our books into films (I never believe anything in TV or film is really happening until things are officially greenlit to production).
We wonder which books might be adapted -- Reckless? Kill Or Be Killed? Criminal?? -- and we've been waiting for years for any such project to see more than an industry-mag announcement. When an adaptation finally is produced and released, all we will say is, it's about damn time -- and we'll have our fingers crossed that the work honors the excellent source material.
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