For your consideration: Comic-book artist Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier) is slowly working his way through producing graphic-novel adaptations of the Parker books for IDW. Four of them are out so far (The Hunter, The Outfit, The Score, and Slayground), and they rock. Admittedly, you have to be into Cooke's stripped-down retro art style, and you have to not mind that they're all presented in a peculiar not-monochrome-but-not-in-color-either way (it's basically black-and-white art, except the part that isn't black isn't always white, if you see what I mean), but if you tick those two boxes, there are many good times to be had. The stories are presented in their original setting, as '60s crime-noir period pieces, which meshes nicely with Cooke's aforementioned retro style.
(As an aside, by "slowly" I mean that I preordered Slayground months before it came out and received it on December 23 of last year, and the last page of the book says "Parker will return in 2015".)
Anyway, there are Kindle editions available, but I haven't experienced them so I don't know how the conversion is. (I find reading comics on my Kindle Fire a bit irritating because it's juuuust a little bit too small.) The ones I have are all well-made hardcovers. They're also a deluxe "Martini Edition" hardcover of the first two volumes, which I don't have either but covet extravagantly.
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Date: 2014-06-04 05:54 am (UTC)(As an aside, by "slowly" I mean that I preordered Slayground months before it came out and received it on December 23 of last year, and the last page of the book says "Parker will return in 2015".)
Anyway, there are Kindle editions available, but I haven't experienced them so I don't know how the conversion is. (I find reading comics on my Kindle Fire a bit irritating because it's juuuust a little bit too small.) The ones I have are all well-made hardcovers. They're also a deluxe "Martini Edition" hardcover of the first two volumes, which I don't have either but covet extravagantly.