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: Reading the comments section of my interview this week with miniseries artist Dale Eaglesham , I am bewildered by the folks unwilling to consider the characters acting out of character might be the victim of mind control. Neither Fred Van Lente or Greg Pak are writers known for doing Chuck Austen-scale butchering of characters, so I am waiting to see how things play out. But in general, I am loving what I read and looking forward to more (hopefully this series becomes an ongoing).Mystery Men #3 : Of all the new characters introduced in the five-issue miniseries, this issue features my favorite to date: The Doctor. (The guy takes folks out via scalpel with abandon, a pulp noir Wolverine kind of…). I wish this project was an eight-issue miniseries, so that the storytellers could give more of their back story and (in the case of The Doctor) better explain what tragedies fuel his vigilante justice.
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, which is available to read or download for free at his site. It’s a funny, snarky story about a girl who sets out to make friends with everyone in her fifth-grade class, and it’s simply delightful. Estrada presents a number of different challenges: His heroine, Aki, tries to compete in a Scrabble tournament while coaching a friend in a boxing match, take the middle ground when two girl gangs (both of which claim her as a member) start a turf war, and solve a ridiculous grade-school riddle. Most of the book is done in a cartoony style that mixes in scrapbook elements, but he also plays with other styles—one chapter is done in manga style, another like a sprite comic. He clearly had a lot of fun with it, and in the end, no lessons are learned. Good stuff.I also enjoyed Mameshiba on the Loose! much more than I thought I would—in fact, it made me laugh out loud. Mameshiba are cute, rounded creatures (the name is a portmanteau of the Japanese words for “bean” and a breed of dog) who were first featured in animated shorts on Japanese TV, popping out of people’s lunches and spouting random bits of trivia. The comic goes way beyond that, really bringing these odd little beans to life with distinct personalities and plenty of cuteness. In the first, and longest, story, the beans team up to rescue a pea who has fallen down the drain and into the sewer—the jokes just write themselves, but writer James Turner doesn’t stop there, and he comes up with a zany set of sewer dwellers for the beans to contend with in equally creative ways. The second story is a trip to outer space, again with plenty of slapstick and random humor. Viz has come up with a great kids’ comic here, and I hope the kids find it.
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ENEMIES line up for Mann | WhatCulture!
The best project to have actually been born out of the WGA strike at the last minute is Michael Mann’s PUBLIC ENEMIES, a movie that will see Christian Bale as an F.B.I agent tracking down such notorious gangsters as Pretty Boy Floyd, John “Red” Hamilton and of course the infamous John Dillinger, to be played by Johnny Depp.
These men were collectively known as the PUBLIC ENEMIES, and the eventual taking down of these criminals by then U.S. President J. Edgar Hoover in the 30′s by his federal agents, was seen as the true birth of the F.B.I. The Universal Pictures depression-era thriller will begin shooting on March 10th, and Variety carry word of a whole host of names just added as the supporting cast.
) Jason Clarke. Again, looks wise he’s perfect.
Presumably they are still looking for the roles of Baby Face Nelson and Fred Baker, the two other members of Dillinger’s gang. They are pictured below and boy isn’t it a shame that Joe Pesci is too old now to play Barker (the second one below), he is spot on perfect!
The next DEPARTED? The next AMERICAN GANGSTER? I would argue that the men and the story behind this film is more interesting than either of those two movies and with Depp and Bale going head-to-head… two physical and methodical actors who can put in the most of intense performances, to see them challenge each other on screen should be pretty fascinating.
So we’ve seen what Marty can do with a period gangster movie. We’ve seen Ridley Scott find his awesomeness again with his. What can Mann do, with his best cast since HEAT?
Chris Van Meter, Homer was your grand uncle? Do you have any info as to what his favorite car may have been? I know the Dillinger gang liked to steal Ford V8′s whenever possible. Check out my gangster car shop. I have a lot of shirts, etc.. and my 2009 Gangster Car calendar. I’m thinking of featuring Homer Van Meter in my 2010 calendar. I’d love to hear from some of the descendants of these guys..
My great great uncle was pretty boy floyd. My grandfathers name is Charles Floyd, it must have been passed down from generations. I have seen younger pictures of my grandfather and the resemblence is amazing.
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