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‘Vampire Hunter D’ Artist Teams With Tarantino Prodige For ‘Shinjuku’ This Wednesday!
Ah Quentin Tarantino, you have brought us so many amazing things over the years, and the best part of all just may be the fact that you are a fellow geek. Thankfully the director’s talents and visionary style have rubbed off on many a filmmaker, one of which being Christopher ‘Mink’ Morrison. The writer director is probably best known for being an “A BAND APART” alumni and he looks to make his first real mark in literature this coming Wednesday as he drops the manga inspired title “SHINJUKU” from Dark Horse Comics. More over the graphic novel is illustrated by legendary “VAMPIRE HUNTER D” artist Yoshitaka Amano! Inside you can get the full details on the story as well as feast your eyes on some advance artwork. Read on for the skinny.
WRITTEN BY: Christopher Morrison
ILLUSTRATED BY: Yoshitaka Amano
Writer and director Christopher ‘mink’ Morrison (Dust) and legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D) join forces to craft an unforgettable tale of destiny, danger, and hard-boiled sorcery, featuring over a hundred original paintings by Amano! In the year 2020, bounty hunter Daniel Legend finds himself tracking a quarry of a different kind: his long-lost sister. Armed only with his wits, his gun, and a mysterious postcard, Daniel makes his way to the heart of the seedy Shinjuku district of Tokyo, where a clash between two underworlds-the criminal and the infernal-threatens the very fabric of reality. o Shinjuku marks the first totally original project by Yoshitaka Amano for Dark Horse Books. Written by filmmaker mink, a rising star from Quentin Tarantino’s A Band Apart production company.
“SHINJUKU” Drops Wednesday April 14th From Dark Horse Comics! (MSRP-$24.99)
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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