Arkadian, No Witness by Stephen L. Antczak, Riq, and Dexter Vines, 2007
Clipped from AtomicAvenue.com by Eric Garneau :
A crime story that ends up being an interesting commentary on fate, Arkadian: No Witness is driven by the character of Senator Haskell, a politician currently running for re-election who finds himself in some shady dealings that have gotten out of hand—in particular, he’s involved with a mistress who claims to be a witch and who says she’ll curse him and his family if he doesn’t leave his wife for her. So it is that Haskell hires Arkadian, a killer employed by the rich and powerful to do things they can’t do themselves. Haskell’s instructions to Arkadian are clear: “no witnesses. None.” But things don’t go exactly as Arkadian wants… first someone witnesses his kill of the “witch,” then another random stranger happens upon his murder of the first bystander, etcetera. At first it seems funny, almost like slapstick, but when the tale reaches its end and Arkadian has indeed eliminated all his witnesses, the result is both shocking and sobering.
ZOMBIE KING #0 (2005) by Frank Cho and Eric Crowe
Clipped from Newsarma forum, post by Matt Brady, and edited a bit by us: And you thought Frank Cho could only draw hot women and dinosaurs…Cho shows everyone how wrong they were on July 13th with Zombie King #0, co-written by himself and Eric Crowe, and published by Image. The black and white one-shot sets the stage for many more stories as well as many more opportunities for the depiction of flagrant violation of several state and county laws.
CONCEPT: A new breakthrough in medicine is here. A new drug that can mend bones, reconnect nerves and even reanimate dead cells. Only one pharmaceutical company has it and only they know the drug's dark secrets and the price of immortality. How far will they go to keep it all? How far will others go to take it?
THIS ISSUE: Disaster strikes the heartland. The North Dakota pharmaceutical warehouse is breached and the undead are unleashed. A small band of security guards and local farmers must fight to contain the zombies. How do you kill something that's already dead? Shoot repeatedly. If nothing else, will have you saying, “Huh. Never saw that before…” in regards to a zombie and it’s…er…lust.
2008 Update-clipped from Big Shiny Robot: Frank Cho has stated that his once planned monthly book Zombie King is back in the works again. It is being pitched around as a feature film to Dark Horse Entertainment as well which will decide if Image or Dark Horse will be publishing the book.
Officer Downe, written by Joe Casey and drawn by Chris BurnhamI loved the shear ludicrous and absurdity of this book. It was very much in the same vein of the comic book Hard Boiled by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow. As an on going series this would get tiresome, but as a single issue book; which popped up from time to time...I would welcome it with open arms like a friend stopping by for a visit.
A friend; which always gets you drunk, nearly arrested, perhaps laid and leaves you with stories to tell and welcomed-back-to-normal-Mondays.
Arkadian, No Witness by Stephen L. Antczak, Riq, and Dexter Vines, 2007
