Parker: Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (Series #2) (Paperback)

from jasonli

"Parker: The Score" is a variation on the group bank heist story most recently popularized by the "Ocean's Eleven" movies - there's a crew of unique individuals, a lengthy planning process and an action-packed heist. Cooke's comic book adaptation makes a staccato work, with a stark palette of bla...

from nosajeel

Not nearly as good as Darwyn Cooke's adaptations of the Parker novels The Hunter and The Score. It was just as skillfully adapted as a graphic novel, with a sparse monochromatic but propulsive drawing and minimalist writing. I think, without having read it directly, that the problem is the plot o...

from jasonlf

Not nearly as good as Darwyn Cooke's adaptations of the Parker novels The Hunter and The Score. It was just as skillfully adapted as a graphic novel, with a sparse monochromatic but propulsive drawing and minimalist writing. I think, without having read it directly, that the problem is the plot o...

from branimal

Every single time I put down one of Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark adaptations, I tell myself, “Man, I really need to read those Parker books”. Not only do they come with solid recommendations from many of my trusted friends, they're right up my alley. Disgruntled con-man with some serious anger is...

from EricKibler

For his third Parker graphic novel, Cooke skips "The Mourner", the fourth book in the Parker series, and attacks the fifth book, "The Score". I understand his impatience to cut right to the good stuff. "The Score" is one of Parker's most memorable capers, the robbery of an entire town in North Da...