JUSTIN GREENWOOD is an artist best known for his work on comic book series like Stumptown, Compass, The Old Guard, and Crone. As a freelance artist, he has worked with many companies including Image Comics, Oni Press, Dark Horse Comics, Ten Speed series Press/Penguin Random House, Sideshow Collectibles, Amazon, RadicalMedia, ABC Studios, and the Golden State Warriors. Greenwood was also an executive producer on the ABC television Stumptown, based on the Oni Press comic book. When not drawing, you can find him hanging with his wife and kids around the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.
LIBRARY JOURNAL - While the stars of action plots are often lawmen
or spies, this time a couple of loose-cog Los Angeles-based
videographers come into focus. The sensible Paul plus wild card
Nick make an unlikely freelance team who churn out network-worthy
city crisis footage despite interpersonal squabbling and
edge-bending driving, earning grudging respect from hard-ass news
boss Michelle. But when the team blunders into a covert deal
between drug dealers and cops-or are they?-both sides want the
duo's evidence and their hides. Writer/producer Guggenheim
(Arrow) crafts the dialog with up-yours snark, more than
matched by Greenwood's (The Fuse) well-designed, kinetic
grittiness. Greenwood pulls major drama from the high-octane car
chases, and his facial work dramatizes the dark humor of the
characters. Hill's color choices-tans through reds, adding blues
for certain settings-keep the action striking and clear. For a
change, the novel's sound effects are run-on descriptive phrases
such as "BallsOutChaseAt90MPH" rather than onomatopoetic standbys
such as "VRROOOM." VERDICT The stringers' irreverent
exploits will delight both fans of TV police dramas such as The
Shield and other readers fond of dirty-edged urban crime with
lots of mayhem.-MC
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