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Writer/Artist Darwyn Cooke Has Passed Away

Darwyn Cooke’s impact on the medium of comics will never be forgotten as he brought the heroes of Golden Age and Silver Age to the children of the Internet Age, and my thoughts and those of the rest of the Pop Optiq comics team are with his family and friends. The best way to remember him is to support, marvel at, enjoy, and, most of all, smile at the comics and films he made, and much of his work from his DC stories to his Parker graphic novels is easily available on Comixology.

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Ed Brubaker Reinvents Catwoman as an Anti-Hero and Champion of the Oppressed

Catwoman #1-4 (2002) Written by Ed Brubaker Pencilled by Darwyn Cooke Inked by Mike Allred Colors by Matt Hollingsworth Published by DC Comics In “Anodyne”, the opening storyline of the long running third volume of Catwoman, Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke put a fresh new spin on the assumed dead Selina Kyle/Catwoman with the help of inker Mike Allred and …

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Darwyn Cooke Revisits All-Too-Familiar Ground in Slayground

At a slim 82 pages, Cooke delivers a quick, compressed story of Parker trying to stay alive just for one night. Trapped in a closed down amusement park with a bag full of money from an armored car job, Parker only has his wits to evade a bunch of mobsters and crooked cops who just …

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