On a Darwyn Cooke kick
The last few weeks, I’ve really been getting into the work of Darwyn Cooke. Cooke was the guy with Ed Brubaker, who jump started the new Catwoman book. Cooke did the new catsuit which is more practical and sexy while Brubaker took the backstory and made it realistic.
Cooke’s work brings about a level of familiarity while feeling fresh at the same time. The looks is at times like that of a classic 1950’s commercial illustration while not feeling retro. Two books I’ve just torn thru was DC: The New Frontier and his issue of Solo.
I can’t say anymore about The New Frontier that what has already been written about it. It’s a great book in that I stopped caring about the story so much as I was caring for the characters.
Solo is this cool idea DC launched last year. Every other month, a DC artisit or writer is given one book to do what ever they want. Darwyn’s showed his range both as an artist as well as a writer by blending different elements from The New Frontier and Batman into the different stories. Do yourself a favor and check it out..
