If there is anyone that can even come close to being a worthy successor to Garth Ennis on The Punisher, it would hands down be one Mr. Jason Aaron. And I'm as giddy as a school boy that Jason makes his Punisher debut this very week with the holiday one-shot Punisher MAX X-Mas Special.
"...it's got a couple of the darkest scenes I've ever written,” Aaron stated. “ There's no way I could ever even attempted a story like this in the Marvel Universe. Axel Alonso would've had me drawn and quartered. And he could do it, too.”
As any good little Scalped fan knows, thats a pretty lofty promise from ol' J. But I think I just might believe him.
If you are so inclined, CBR also has a preview of the first few pages at that same link. As for me, this is one holiday treat that I am going to need to enjoy all in one sitting.
Here's hoping this thing sells a gazillion copies and they put him on the ongoing series toute suite and el permanente.
Avatar will release the first hardcover of FreakAngels, the weekly webcomic by Warren Ellis, in November. As a rabid Ellis fan you might assume that I've already read this. You'd be wrong. I already have enough stuff to do on the internet and I read comics to get away from it. Looking forward to catching up with this.
Kick-Ass movie: As crazy as it seems that a comic that is only up to #4 has already been optioned for a movie, it seems even crazier that it's already in production and there are already pictures posted online.
As my buddy The Floronic Man was saying yesterday, this issue starts to delve into the past of Chief Red Crow's daughter, Carol. Up until now, Carol has just been an annoying, unsympathetic junkie whore. Harsh, but true. After seeing what she deals with every day (grab-handsy patrons at the greasy spoon where she waitresses, a deadbeat abusive husband who she only married to piss off her dad), a peek into her past (she was pregnant and about to escape the rez, but it looks like her baby daddy got killed by Red Crow), you can understand a bit more why she spends all her money on cigarettes and black tar heroin.
It's nice to see her character being fleshed out a bit. Scalped has been pretty good so far making all of the main players multidimensional and deep (though it took Aaron until this past story line to get to Dash, which is strange as he's ostensibly the main character.) I'm excited to see where this story arc's going.
Scalped is up for an Eisner for Best New Series this year, but it's some stiff competition. Immortal Iron First, Buffy, Infinite Horizon, and Johnny Hiro are all in the running. It'll be interesting to see what happens. I'd be happy with a win for either Scalped, Iron Fist, or Infinite Horizon (I read Buffy, too, but it's just not as a good a book as the others.)
-AR
PS. Plus, check out Tim Bradstreet's super hot Frank Miller-esque cover:
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