NEW LOCAL COMIX!!
/It's a double shot KA POW to the face with this EXTREME hit of martial arts action mayhem from local creators Palm, Long and Clarke!!
PUNCH TO KILL #2
(W) Kevin Clarke, Wil Long, Marc Palm (A) Marc Palm
This explosive issue features a new Thief character. What are they up to and what's their beef with the Pillars of Heaven and what they're escorting down the dark piney roads? These answers and more questions will be revealed!!! Written and edited by Kevin Clarke and Wil Long. Co-written and illustrated by Marc J Palm (Back cover by Ben Horak). Published by the independent company Pizza Party Comix in Seattle, WA.
and in cased you missed it--
PUNCH TO KILL #1
(W) Kevin Clarke, Wil Long, Marc Palm (A) Marc Palm
"What you have with Punch is a proven comics talent having a hell of a lot of fun with the form by playing in genre. If you think of Punch as a modern version of Scott McCloud’s superhero comics pastiche Destroy, you’ll likely be pretty close to the intent. Palm includes a list of influences for the book including the comics of Geoff Darrow, Simon Bisley’s Lobo comics, and films The Raid and Dredd. This isn’t some artsy-fartsy commentary on genre. This is an artist trying his hand at a form he genuinely enjoys.
In a short column at the back of the book, Clarke says that Punch began as a movie idea that eventually migrated to comics. It was a smart move. Palm’s artwork does what millions of dollars of computer generated effects cannot: he sells the ridiculous violence and supernatural elements of the story by giving them a physics of their own, an internal set of laws that work on the comics page. To call Punch a ballet of violence would be to insult both ballet and violence. What it is, really, is an onslaught of violence, an attempt to celebrate comics by trying to break comics. What it is, is art." - Paul Constant Seattle Review of Books & Seattle Weekly
