A preview of Shaft #5 is now available on Google Books. This is the penultimate issue of the comic book series written by David Walker and drawn by Bilquis Evely and is due out on 15 April 2015. Below is the A cover designed by Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz and Ivan Nunes.
Month: March 2015
Book Review – SPIRIT OF STEAMBOAT (2013)
SPIRIT OF STEAMBOAT by CRAIG JOHNSON (2013, Penguin, Paperback, 146pp) ∗∗∗∗ Blurb: Sheriff Walt Longmire is in his office reading A Christmas Carol when he is interrupted by a ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar and more than a few questions about his predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt’s on his own this…
Comic Book Review – SHAFT #4 (2015)
SHAFT #4 (11 March 2015, Dynamite Entertainment) ∗∗∗∗∗ Shaft Created by Ernest Tidyman Written and Lettered by David F. Walker Illustrated by Bilquis Evely Coloured by Daniela Miwa Cover A by Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz and Ivan Nunes Shaft returns to Harlem in search of Marisol DuPree, who holds the key to the murder of his girlfriend Arletha…
Book Review – THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE (2014)
THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE by BENJAMIN BLACK (2014, Picador, Paperback, 290pp) ∗∗∗∗ Blurb: Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . . It is the early 1950s. In…
More reviews of Shaft #4
Reviews continue to be largely positive toward the Shaft comic book series, which has now seen four of the initial six-part tale released. Here are some of the latest:- Dan Pennacchia, All-Comic.com: “One of the most understated aspects of Shaft is the art direction and set design of the series. Evely does an absolutely stunning job…
Film Review Round-up – BRANDED (1950), GONE GIRL (2014) and GILDA (1946)
Branded (1950; USA; Technicolor; 104m) ∗∗∗ d. Rudolph Maté; w. Sydney Boehm, Cyril Hume; ph. Charles Lang; m. Roy Webb; ed. Alma Macrorie. Cast: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia, Peter Hansen, Selena Royle, Tom Tully, John Berkes, Milburn Stone, Martin Garralaga, Edward Clark, John Butler. A gunfighter takes part in…
Book Review – LINE OF DUTY (1974) by Ernest Tidyman
LINE OF DUTY by ERNEST TIDYMAN (1974, W.H. Allen, Hardback, 240pp) ∗∗∗½ Blurb: Terror prowls the dark streets of a sprawling American city waiting for violence to break out. Some men sleep but others wait for it too, hiding in the shadows. One of them waits in a comfortless room lit by a single glaring bulb,…
Shaft #4 – first review
BlackNerdProblems have published an advance review of the latest issue of David Walker’s Shaft comic book series, due to be released on 4 March. The review is another positive recommendation awarding an 8 out of 10 rating and stating in its summary: “Between the mid-life crisis, revenge, and survival, Shaft is one of the best reads…