This is the companion piece to the first Martini edition of the Parker novels。 I have been waiting for this book for a long time。 Since Darwyn Cooke died， the Parker novels stopped。 They were the best thing in comics going at the time。 I had met Cooke at a convention and he had said he was working on another one。 But then he passed away。 I contacted IDW to find out if the book had been finished but there was no word。Ed Brubaker is one of my favorite comic writers and he mentioned in one of his b This is the companion piece to the first Martini edition of the Parker novels。 I have been waiting for this book for a long time。 Since Darwyn Cooke died， the Parker novels stopped。 They were the best thing in comics going at the time。 I had met Cooke at a convention and he had said he was working on another one。 But then he passed away。 I contacted IDW to find out if the book had been finished but there was no word。Ed Brubaker is one of my favorite comic writers and he mentioned in one of his books that he was going to be working on the last Parker book with Sean Phillips for the Martini edition。 The book has the last two novels， The Score and Slayground， that Cooke did。 There is also another story called Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow。 The art work is amazing as that Cooke was a great artist。 The new story was one that Brubaker and Phillips did。 It's a Grofield story。 I enjoyed it but was hoping they were going to finish the last Parker book that Cooke had been working on。 There are some art drawings of The Mourner， the unfinished book， in this edition。 There is also a lot of people remembering Cooke and photos of them with him。 When I first read The Hunter， I was struck by the bluntness of Parker。 I went out and bought the entire book series and read them quickly。 They read fast and they are wonderful。 I highly recommend reading this series！！The only regret I have with this book is that I was hoping for another Parker novel to be with it。 RIP Darwyn Cooke。 。。。more