Great tale in this series - I hope to write a full review shortly.

Great adaptation. I loved the scenes when Edgar tries to get his revenge on Copper Canyon.

Reread, December 2020.Original review, 8/14/16: I read this last night while also watching the Olympics with my family, which makes for a really funny juxtaposition, since the Olympics is all sentimental storytelling, rooted in the back-stories of all the largely American participants (if you are watching it as I am, in the U. S.), and Richard Stark's--one pseudonym for Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald Westlake--Parker is the hardest-boiled detective you ever met, the opposite of s...

The Cooke / Westlake (a.k.a. Stark) teaming returns to the spirit, quality and effectiveness shown in the initial volume The Hunter with their third book The Score. (The sophomore effort, The Outfit, was good but sort of lost its momentum for awhile in the middle.) This time laconic thief Parker works with a larger-than-usual crew - which, of course, complicates matters - to execute an audacious heist in a quiet midwestern mining town. Things get interesting when a pretty good PLOT TWIST occurs....

A friend of mine is constantly talking about Richard Stark's PARKER, so when I saw a bunch of these graphic novels at the comic shop, I grabbed one at random to see what it was all about.Darwyn Cooke is a fantastic writer, and while I can't say what kind of job he does translating Stark's work (because I haven't read the source material), I can say that, objectively, he does a great job with this story. He brings tense, crime fiction to life in a compelling and engaging way. The art and color is...

Every single time I put down one of Darwyn Cooke’s Richard Stark adaptations, I tell myself, “Man, I really need to read those Parker books”. Not only do they come with solid recommendations from many of my trusted friends, they’re right up my alley. Disgruntled con-man with some serious anger issues? Give me all the books.Parker’s general rule states that if a job needs more than five people, it’s not a job. So imagine his reaction when someone proposed a heist requiring more than twenty-five b...

When we’ve hit a point where Hollywood thinks that Jason Statham would be the perfect guy to play Parker in a movie, maybe it’s best that we all just stick to Darwyn Cooke’s graphic novel adaptations of the Richard Stark books to get our visuals of what the professional thief’s stories would look like.This one adapts The Score in which Parker puts together a crew to take over and loot a small isolated mining town. As he did in his versions of The Hunter and The Outfit Cooke uses the text from th...

I’m the perfect audience for these books as I’ve never read a Richard Stark/Donald Westlake novel about Parker but I love Darwyn Cooke, I like crime stories and looooove comics, so mixing all that up and serving it to me is gravy every time. I will read a Parker novel by Westlake one day but for now, The Hunter, The Outfit, and this one, The Score are perfectly enjoyable by themselves. Parker is his usual tough-guy self as he gets drawn into a scheme to rob an entire town, a small mining town in...

Darwyn Cooke's previous adaptations of Richard Stark's 'Parker' novels (The Hunter & The Outfit) were faithful to the source material (Cooke had even included pertinent elements of The Man With The Getaway Face in the 'Outfit' adaptation) and it was a real pleasure for me to have one of my favourite artists illustrate some of my favourite crime stories. This book continues the trend. What initially struck me was the choice of colour for the art. In the previous volumes, we had black & white art

Excellent adaptation of one of the best of the Parker books. Cooke's cartoony/retro style fits the grim material suprisingly well, especially in the sections in which he documents Grofeld's perspective. Not a substitute for the original novel, of course, but a supple and entertaining adaptation, showing a lot of cartooning chops. Recommended.

The is the best novel in the series so far which i read.The sketches and the yellow shade. Simply great. Really the graphic presentation just made it great otherwise i wonder how different could it be to read the book as this carried a simple hit job.

Hard-boiled characters know that it isn't a question of if you will be double-crossed, it is a question of when and by whom. The words of Donald E. Westlake (aka Richard Stark) just pour out of the images of these books into your eyeballs.

This was my third book in the Parker series of graphic novels, although I'm not sure it's the third book in terms of order. In any event, after the dazzling "The Hunter" and the mystifying misfire of "The Outfit," "The Score" is a huge comeback - maybe the best of the three. "Slayground" is next, and then ... well, it's not clear to me that there are any additional titles in the series. That already makes me sad.

I'm a big fan of Donald Westlake and his alter-ego, Richard Stark. I was just rereading one of his books when I found out this series of graphic novels by Darwyn Cooke, of whom I am also a huge fan because of his work in DC's The New Frontier. Cooke is not a realistic artist - so what? IMO, he manages to make Parker and his brutality all the more real in his cartoonish-ness (not to mention the femmes fatales he finds along the way, who are as beautiful and intriguing as any real flesh-and-blood

This is an adaptation of one of my favorite Parker novels, and Darwyn Cooke doesn't disappoint. He has a great sense of pacing. Too many comic book writers seem to assume that people spend as much time on the visuals as they do the dialogue, which leads to some choppy pacing. For this book, though, Cooke intersperses dialogue sections with speech-free action sections, and it really works. He also wonderfully evokes the '60s setting of the original novel without being cutesy or overloading the na...

Darwyn Cooke continues adapting Donald E. Westlake's Parker series into graphic novel form with THE SCORE, the third volume in the series. And like the first two, it's wonderful, with a terse script and evocative artwork that captures the mid-Sixties era perfectly. This is the one where Parker and a crew that includes Alan Grofield try to loot an entire copper mining town in North Dakota, only to run into some unexpected problems. Seeing how Parker deals with those problems is one of the ongoing...

The series is starting to grow on me. The art is still confusing at times, and this time its done in black and white and yellow. But the more I read the more I realize these stories aren't about sympathizing with anyone but more about just watching a bunch of bastards at work. I still prefer my stories to have a good guy, even if the villains are usually more interesting, but in this case even with a cast of villains it's entertaining.In this volume Parker and his crew attempt to knock over an e...

Not nearly as good as Darwyn Cooke's adaptations of the Parker novels The Hunter and The Score. It was just as skillfully adapted as a graphic novel, with a sparse monochromatic but propulsive drawing and minimalist writing. I think, without having read it directly, that the problem is the plot of the underlying novel it is adapting. The Hunter and The Outfit both have a higher level of double-crossing, more varied settings, and an almost epic struggle of Parker as a solo criminal against "The O...

”The Whole Damn Town” This is what I’m talkin about! Read this in like 30 minutes dog. After my disappointing read through of The Outfit I read the description of this volume and immediately got hyped to read it. Parker and a group of robbers ransacking an entire mining town? Hell yes. This book was a blast man. It’s probably my personal favourite of the books thus far even though The Hunter is probably a better written book. My biggest praise towards this book is my biggest praise towards t

This is the third book that Darwyn Cooke adapted from Richard Stark's Parker novels. I thought this book was the most fun of the three graphic novels that Darwyn Cooke did. The fun in this case is the planning and execution of a robbery and because of the type of robbery this is there is all kinds of side stories that keep the story moving and interesting. The reader also gets to see a glimpse into some of the characters we have meet that Parker does his jobs with as well as finding out even mor...