Le nouveau projet indépendant Dead Body Road du scénariste Justin Jordan (Luther Strode) se fera toujours chez Image Comics, mais sous le label Skybound de Robert Kirkman.
Dans cette mini-série au relent de western moderne, l’ancien flic Gage poursuit ceux qu’il estime coupable du meurtre de sa femme. Le dessinateur Matteo Scalera (Black Science) se chargera de la partie graphique des 6 numéros.
[quote=« Justin Jordan »]It is set in the modern day – I don’t want people to think it’s ‹ Jonah Hex › or ‹ Lawless. › I was a big fan of Westerns as a kid, and I actually still am – not to the extent that I’ve gone to see ‹ The Lone Ranger › as yet but a general thing," Jordan said. "I like the aesthetic and I spent some time in West Texas just getting to experience the actual desert and areas that are actually kinda desolate still. You can go miles and miles and miles without seeing a building, and the harshness of the terrain has a lot to do with the tone and feel of the book for me. I wanted to do a Western-type thing set in a modern setting so it’s got a real desert-dry feel to it.
"And like I said, I like crime and thrillers, so I wanted to see if I could cross some of that with the noir sensibilities and see what we’ve got.[/quote]
[quote] Dead Body Road #1
Story by: Justin Jordan
Art By: Matteo Scalera & Moreno DiNisio
The men involved in his wife’s death must die. All of them.
Price: $2.99
On Sale: December 11, 2013[/quote]
[quote]Well, there’s definitely and intentionally a western influence to it. It’s meant to be, and I hope is, a modern western mixed with a heavy dose of crime and noir. It’s not especially horrorific, except maybe for that thing that Cobb does in issue one. That’s sort of horrory.
But, you know, I get influences from a lot of stuff. Take Cobb, for instance. Cobb is, although I don’t use the term in the book, a standover man, which is an Australian thing, where a criminal basically makes his living finding criminals who have pulled off a big score and robbing them.
I first became acquainted with the concept when I read Idoru, a William Gibson sci fi book fifteen, twenty years ago, which featured an exstandover man as a minor character. So you can draw a line from that book to this comic in the person of Fletcher Cobb.[/quote]
[quote]Dead Body Road #1
Story by Justin Jordan
Art by Matteo Scalera
Colors by Moreno Dinisio
Cover by Matteo Scalera
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, December 11th, 2013
The men involved in his wife’s death must die. All of them.
Writer JUSTIN JORDAN (LUTHER STRODE) and artist MATTEO SCALERA (BLACK SCIENCE, Indestructible Hulk) craft the bruising story of one man’s revenge and the dark road he travels.[/quote]
[quote]Dead Body Road #2
Story by Justin Jordan
Art by Matteo Scalera
Colors by Moreno Dinisio
Cover by Matteo Scalera
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, January 22nd, 2014
Will a standoff in a diner lead Gage one dead body closer to his revenge? Or is it just a pit stop on the highway to Hell?[/quote]
[quote]DEAD BODY ROAD #3 Written by: Justin Jordan
Art by: Matteo Scalera
Cover by: Matteo Scalera
Pages: 32
Price: $2.99
In stores: Feb. 26
Orson Gage is no good man…but Mr. Cobb and his unique interrogation tactics are even worse. Why is he pursuing Gage? And just how do you remove blood from a motel carpet?[/quote]
[quote]DEAD BODY ROAD #4
Written by: Justin Jordan.
Art by: Matteo Scalera.
Cover by: Matteo Scalera.
Description: Gage has taken one of his wife’s murderers captive in the back of his van. In pursuit is a fleet of bikers and other murderous bastards. Are you ready for an interrogation at 100 MPH?!
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: March 26. [/quote]
[quote]Dead Body Road #5
Story by Justin Jordan
Art by Matteo Scalera
Colors by Moreno Diniso
Cover by Moreno Dinisio
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date Wed, April 23rd, 2014
Holed up and under siege, Gage and his accomplices may have run out of road…but not bullets. Or heads to put them through.[/quote]
[quote]DEAD BODY ROAD #6
Written by: Justin Jordan.
Art by: Matteo Scalera.
Covers by: Matteo Scalera.
Description: There’s a man digging a hole in the desert. Let’s see just how many bodies will fit. Orson Gage’s bloody revenge saga ends here.
Pages: 32.
Price: $2.99.
In stores: May 28. [/quote]
Du Noir bien lambda, pas mal fait, mais très (trop) « écrit », et se fondant dans la masse du genre entre un sous Tarantino (et c’est pas peu dire) ou un Tony Scott…
reste qu’en cette période de sorties assez calme, et avec le score qui va bien, ça se laisse pas mal lire, la preuve:
La grosse différence, chez Murphy, c’est qu’il matière beaucoup plus à peu près tout, vêtements, véhicules, décors, personnages, traits de mouvements. Les choses sont, en définitive, plus lumineuses chez Murphy, qui n’utilise que très rarement des ombres profondes, mais préfère bien souvent jouer sur des systèmes de hachures, afin de faire ressortir un grain blanc dans la surface noire. Ce qui donne une profondeur incroyable à ses dessins.
J’aime bien les deux, et Scalera fait preuve d’un design d’une grande richesse sur Black Science, mais son approche du noir est plus radicale, peut-être plus simpliste.
