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Swipe-a-day 04: Dizzy
This is from the cover of 100 Bullets #30. Awesome series by the way. Hard-boiled heaven. Amazing dialog, gorgeous dames, every page and every panel a noir masterpiece.
[Note: Check This $#!% Out was originally a seperate blog but is now a feature of patokon blog ] Since my kindergarten class where we had a guest teacher with a monkey puppet that spoke only French, I've been interested in the French language. My interest never went as deep as my interest in Asian languages, but deep enough that I have several dozens of books in or about French. My first French movie exposure was the stylish thriller DIVA . The opening opera scene still gives me goosebumps just due to the amazing singing of Wilhelminia Wiggins Fernandez . It would be another few years before I got to see Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita . A few years after that I saw the fantastic comedic horror (or horrific comedy) Delicatessen , and the classic slapstick spy comedy, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe . I really enjoyed these two genres of French film, the comedy and the action thriller and always looked forward to finding new works by these actors and direct...
This is the official patokon.com blog, which will also be linked to the official fandomain blog (coming soon). I'll be putting up news, sketches, food-for-thought, life-in-japan anecdotes, along with pop-culture/sub-culture madness to be enjoyed by all. Enjoy #67 from my 100 robots pic-a-day series that is hosted on http://comicspace.com/patrikwashburn Cheerz!
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