Hey everybody! Do you love the novels of Victor Gischler, including the great Pistol Poets and the destined-to-be-a-classic Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse? Do you also love comic books? Well then! Have we got a treat for you!
As Comic Book Resources reports, June will see the release of Mr. Gischler’s Punisher one-shot, Punisher MAX Special: Little Black Book—the tale of what happens when everyone’s favorite psychopath Frank Castle gets a-hold of a high-priced call girl’s client list. My guess: mayhem! Carnage! There’s more info over at CBR, so click away! Between this and Go-Go Girls, 2008 is shaping up to be the Summer of Gischler. Which is like the Summer of Love, only with darker beer and more cannibal Tennesseeans.
On the topic of things that blow up real good, swell guy and fellow Hattiesburg survivor Anthony Neil Smith, author of The Drummer and the forthcoming Yellow Medicine, has revived his noir web anthology Plots With Guns. Lo, we though it dead, but, like the fabled King Arthur, it has returned to us at our hour of greatest need! Only King Arthur is a zombie, because what, you thought he was coming back all handsome and charming? Magic doesn’t work that way. All King Arthur wants is to crack your skull between his teeth and shamble. What are the stories in the second life of PWG like? Well, the tamest opening is, “Heather does a lot of cocaine.”
Finally, both Neil and Victor are featured on this month’s issue of Crimespree magazine, along with Friend of Emerson LaSalle Sean Doolittle. Truly the final days are upon us, and it’s good to know we’ll have plenty to read on the long handbasket ride to hell.
Well, I’m in. There was enough sheer mayhem in Pistol Poets to sustain about two years of War Journal alone. That, plus a great pulp-based Johnson cover!
Is this the writer that is the hubby of that person we both know, prof? And can I call myself a Hattiesburg survivor too, now that I’m off to Texas in a couple of months?
Yes, to all of those things! And congrats on the Texas gig! An e-mail from me is forthcoming.
Sounds good to me!
Just wanted to say how awesome the photo is of William Hurt as Thunderbolt Ross circulating on these here internets.