SHAFT: IMITATION OF LIFE by DAVID F. WALKER/DIETRICH SMITH (2017, Dynamite, 104pp) ∗∗∗∗ Blurb: After a high-profile case puts him in the headlines, private detective John Shaft is looking for something low profile and easy that will keep him out of the spotlight, out of danger. Shaft takes a missing person case that proves to be more difficult…
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Dynamite reprint of Tidyman Shaft originals commences
In May 2014 Dynamite Entertainment announced it had purchased the literary rights to Ernest Tidyman’s creation John Shaft. The purchase was prompted by comic book writer and author David F Walker, who was given responsibility of writing new Shaft adventures in both comic book and prose forms. The result was the brilliant comic Shaft: A Complicated…
Book Review – SHAFT’S REVENGE by David F. Walker (2016)
SHAFT’S REVENGE by DAVID F WALKER (Dynamite Entertainment, 2016, 288pp) ∗∗∗∗ Blurb: Like an unstoppable force of nature, private detective John Shaft is back with a vengeance. Ernest Tidyman’s iconic detective returns in the first original Shaft novel in more than forty years, and he’s as bad as ever. When the Godfather of crime…
Shaft comic book and novel release date confirmed
Dynamite have updated the release dates for Issue #1 of the new comic book Shaft: Imitation of Life and the novel Shaft’s Revenge as 10 February. Whilst Amazon on both sides of the Atlantic quote later dates, the latest being 23 February (US) and 25 February (UK) for Shaft’s Revenge, this is likely driven by…
Shaft’s Revenge now set for March release?
Amazon sites on both sides of the Atlantic have today sent an update to customers who have made pre-orders to inform them of a move in release date for David F. Walker’s Shaft’s Revenge, the first Shaft novel since 1975’s The Last Shaft. Amazon’s US site quotes 8 March as the revised date, whilst in the UK 10…
Shaft: Imitation of Life issue #1 cover unveiled
A preview of the Matthew Clark’s prime cover for Shaft: Imitation of Life #1 (of 4), sub-titled Part One: Before and After has been released by Dynamite Entertainment along with the following blurb: After a high profile case that put him in the headlines, private detective John Shaft is looking for something low profile and easy…
More Shaft on the way in 2016
A number of specialist comic book sites have reported on Dynamite’s announcement of a second comic book series of Shaft. David F. Walker will again be writing the series, titled Shaft: Imitation of Life with artwork passing from Bilquis Evely to Dietrich Smith. Smith’s character designs for Shaft are much closer in resemblance to Richard Roundtree. Dynamite’s…
Dynamite promote Shaft’s Revenge as a December release
Dynamite Entertainment have updated their site with a promotion for publication of Shaft’s Revenge on 23 December 2015. Amazon still quote 18 February 18 2016, so we’ll have to wait further announcements as to whether this is an advanced release via Dynamite or a date is standardised.
Update to Guide to Shaft
I’ve updated the Shaft in Print section of my Guide to Shaft part of this site with details of David F Walker’s comic book and new novel, Shaft’s Revenge.
Shaft’s Revenge due for paperback release
Reports on Bleeding Cool say David F. Walker’s novel, Shaft’s Revenge, is due for paperback publication this December – although Amazon displays an 18 February 2016 release date. Walker had written the recent comic book series Shaft, which itself is due for a trade paperback release next month as Shaft: A Complicated Man. Walker says: “Writing…