#RIP Darwyn Cooke

I just learned one of my favorite comic book artists just died...

RIP Darwyn Cooke.

This year is starting to sound really bad. Not only did we lose David Bowie and Prince already this year, but now Darwyn Cooke passed away from cancer at only 53....

He did a ton of fantastic work I particularly love such as the fantastic DC: The New Frontier and the modern DC Comics The Spirit series which I adored. 

He will be missed.

I'm still shocked, he was so young...

I didn't knew what to do, to celebrate this artist, so I'm just using this post as an excuse to post some of his best works.

If you didn't know the guy, take this occasion to check some of his work, his artwork is really well worth a look!

CBR:Quickies Will Eisner's The Spirit (2005-2009)

How about some Action/Mystery/Adventure, with a bit of Humor while we're at it?!

Following my review of the classic Will Eisner's The Spirit, here's the Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit successful modern revival!

Don't miss out my previous pulp heroes-related reviews!

Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT
Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit: Book One
The Rocketeer: Jetpack Treasury Edition / THE ROCKETEER: The Complete Adventure

The Rocketeer (1991 movie) / The Rocketeer: Movie Adaptation / The Rocketeer: 3-D Comic
Rocketeer Adventures - Volume Two
Cargo of Doom - Hollywood Horror

CBR Last Resort

 

Here's a fun little zombie story I really liked which I wanted to review for quite some time since I read it.

CBR The Spirit

 

Time to go back to a genre of fiction I love, pulp!

Back in the late 2000s, DC let Darwyn Cooke attempt a revival of Will Eisner's classic hero The Spirit.
The whole project sounded to good to go through, and even though Cooke left the book early on, the series manage to go through over 30 issues, a little mini-series crossover event and about 20 more issues of a second series.
(until it got canceled, thanks one again to DC's New 52... -sigh-)

Anyway, let's go back to the beginning and have a look how it all started!
This book has it all, Action, Mystery, Adventure! And as such sports this awesome little stamp on the cover (presented on the right here) .

CBR Rocketeer Adventures

 

He's back!
Who is? Well, The Rocketeer, of course!

After IDW was able to work the rights with Dave Stevens (before his passing) and realized this gorgeous recolored deluxe edition of the original adventures of Cliff, they decided to give another flight to our rocket propelled hero.

Instead of making that long rumored new on-going series, they went into another direction.
Cliff would live many more new adventures, but as stand alone on shots through the voices and hands of various new artists.

Don't miss out my previous Rocketeer-related reviews!

The Rocketeer: Jetpack Treasury Edition

The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventure

The Rocketeer (1991 movie) 

Comics NEWS! DC announces Watchmen sequel!! (sort of)

Here's something will definitively annoy old fans..but no doubt please the always demanding younger crowd.

They did it! DC Comics finally did it!!
They're gonna produce more WATCHMEN material!

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: "New Frontier" Green Lantern

Hal Jordan never looked that badass anymore outside this story:

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DC: The New Frontier © DC Comics

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Ambush Bug #6

Here's the cover for the sixth issue of the Ambush Bug: Year None mini-series, which never came out actually (in the actual 6-part mini, it jumps from issue 5 to 7 as detailled in my review quoted above)

Shame, really. Darwyn Cooke did such a tremendous work here! (they even apologized to Cooke briefly in #7)
Enjoy!

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Ambush Bug © DC Comics

ComicPanelsOfTheWeek: Donna Troy - Teen Titan

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From the pages of Solo #7 © DC Comics