I Am The One Who – Hey, Someone’s At The Door: Francesco Francavilla’s Breaking Bad Posters

Last night was the premiere for the first episode of the final (half) season of Breaking Bad, and we celebrated like any fan: by being in southern Florida, no more than three minutes drive in any random direction from a meth lab.

We did not, however, celebrate it by watching the new episode. We are among the latecomers to the show, thanks to a TiVo that recorded the first season and, before we could watch them, fell apart like, well, Krazy-8 in an acid-filled bathtub. So we are still catching up (we are, as we speak, watching season four episode Bug, so no one tell us how Walter beats Gus. We are assuming Walter beats Gus, since there is a fifth season. Unless the fifth season is about Badger watching a lot of Ice Road Truckers, but even if it is, do not fucking tell me), but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy some of the ancillary benefits of the show’s fandom.

You know, like Crisis On Infinite Midlives personal favorite pulp artist Francesco Francavilla’s episode posters for the show. Posters that have been collected and given as gifts to the cast and crew of the show.

From Francavilla’s blog:

Can’t express how excited I am, specially considering I was lucky enough to be a (small) part of this exciting event.

You guys have seen my minimalist episode posters for the first 2 seasons (I still plan to do them for the remaining seasons). Well, the producers of the show saw them too and asked me to use them in a very exclusive hardcover book they put together only for the cast and crew of Breaking Bad.
Eight of my posters ended up in the book (you can see a couple shown in the picture above) along with the artwork of other talented fellow artists.

As thank you, the producers surprised me with a copy of the book (see above), which came wrapped in blue shredded paper and with a bag of blue meth, an actual prop from the set.

Needless to say, one of my most prized possessions 😀

If you haven’t seen any of Francavilla’s episode-specific posters, here are a few from the first couple of seasons. And you should look at them; as Francavilla is one of the finest pulp artists around, he and Breaking Bad are a perfect match. Because after all, when you boil it down, Breaking Bad is one of the purest noir stories around: a man in trouble makes a bad decison because of a woman, and it proves to be his undoing. I can’t think of a purer crime story for a guy like Francavilla to interpret, and it is good, good stuff.

Now if you’ll excuse me, Walter and Jesse are kicking the living shit out of each other because of lies, treachery, greed, pride and mistrust. Must be Sunday somewhere.

(via Comics Alliance)