Writing about Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of Richard Stark's The Outfit, I figured out that it turns out sometimes it really is the singer and not the song:
These short parts of The Outfit are great because Cooke doesn’t have to worry about characterization or really advancing a plot. He can continue to demonstrate what a wonderful and versatile cartoonist he is but even this part gets off with a rocky start. The first job, a couple of guys robbing a gambling den, appears to be from Richard Stark’s own prose, just with illustrations by Cooke. Trying to look like an old true-crime magazine article, this prose piece kills off any momentum that Cooke was developing as it just completely loses the characteristics of Cooke’s own storytelling style. The way that Cooke tells the story, particularly some of the inventiveness in how he decides to draw or frame a scene, is abandoned for a section and Stark’s own terse prose takes over. Cooke has his own rhythm and cadence that he’s established in the beginning of this book and in The Hunter. Cooke doesn’t tell a story through words; that’s a novelist’s job. Cooke is a cartoonist who tells stories through pictures, not just illustrations.
You can read my full review of The Outfit at Popdose.