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posted Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
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June 6th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
the near-future is looking very depressing … and very familiar. the idea of a W hotel, a KFC, and a Starbucks in downtown Baghdad is just too ridiculous to be dis-believed.
and i’m oh so diggin’ goldman’s fan-freakin-tastic art/colors.
June 6th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
disco jihad, unbeliever fever
June 6th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Excelent guys, I love this graphical novel. can’t wait for the next part.
June 7th, 2006 at 2:42 am
“Ice is Civilization!” huh I just watched Mosquito Coast yesterday :D
June 7th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Exemplary. This reads and looks so hip and modern yet sickens me to my very core. If this doesn’t become a graphic novel cum HBO series, I don’t know what time it is.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Just when I thought it was gonna be a cake walk…BAM!
Constant non-stop-in-my-face…give me the HEAT!
June 7th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
This is great — love the artwork and the story is hideous (in a good way). keep it coming.
June 7th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
I loved the falafel comment on page 2 when Bill O’Reilly was talking. I’m assuming this was a reference to the sexual harrassment suit he got slammed with?
June 7th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
tscan - you got it. nice catch
June 8th, 2006 at 8:15 am
is that Maureen Dowd in the lobby?
June 8th, 2006 at 9:32 am
yes, nice catch. take a closer look (if you can at web-resolution) at the magazine she’s reading and her facial expression as Jimmy enters the lobby.
June 8th, 2006 at 10:29 am
This is brilliant, painful work. Thank you. Lots and lots of resonance.
And on a trite note: Is that really Wiley E. Coyote in the artwork in the W Hotel Lobby?!
So, is Dubya most telliingly a reference to Wiley and his hyperbolic insanity?! Hmmn.
Man, I sure hope this is more fiction than next-door future. I’m sick of this sh*t.
June 9th, 2006 at 2:31 am
It’s actually Wily on the flat screen TV. Any inferences to our current administration’s wrongheaded invasion of a country that posed no threat to us is unintentional.
June 12th, 2006 at 8:47 am
After ten thousand years of bloodshed in the Middle East, this version of reality is where we’re headed; no matter who winds up in the White House after the next (s)election.
June 16th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Very good, but it feels a lot like Brian Wood’s DMZ even though the specifics are changed.
June 17th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
Did you fashion that hotel clerk after Alexander Siddig (best known as Dr. Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the tragically noble sheik from Syriana)?
June 17th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Sir, you have just earned yourself an official SHOOTING WAR Eagle Eye Award. Congrats!
I’ve always liked Siddig’s face in whatever role he plays; I sat and chewed the end of a pen thinking of who I’d “cast” in the W concierge role given Anthony’s description and suddenly got a big smile on my face.
June 30th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
I gotta say this keeps on chuggin’ along with a nice pacing. I’d like to see more absurdist action though. This has gotta feel like a Bunuel film or its failing completely!!!
September 24th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
You’re a good writer dude…I love this!
September 27th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Is the typo ‘Mutlispectral’ intentional? Must be using a Diebold keyboard. ;)
December 18th, 2006 at 1:27 am
Muy Excellente for the Mosquito Coast quote. Fantastic parallel! Fantastic story!
November 24th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Hey, are the guys with vests hanging around the base Blackwater mercs?