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1969 Elmore Leonard and it isn’t as smooth as the 1980s stuff. This one starts off with similar plot points to Mr. Majestyk. Even a cop named Majestyk. Jack Ryan is an ex ball player turned picker and he is about to get his ass beat.

An awesome chapter where Moran and Nolen level. Good dialogue about too many eggs in a whiskey sour. Nolan over does it like usual. Nolan has 2 years till he cleans up his act in AA

“Do you still like The Rolling Stones? I like the Moody Blues now very much. Please come to see us.” Lucí Palma de Valera

So so good. Moran goes to save Mary but call in a bomb threat. A stand off in front of Andres house where he tells him the slob, Jiggs Scully is going to kill him.
Andres, corky and Jiggs fo to a cabin where a gun battle happens. Jiggs wins and shots them naked in the showers with his subsonic silencer. Then he goes to grab the suitcase. I bet Mary has the money

This is a love story. And Andres is pure evil. He killed Rafi in a scene out of a movie. But Moran said it’s to real.

2 great scenes of dialogue. Moran with a drunk Nolan and Rafi. Then the general with Jiggs talking about the power of fear and interrogation.

Plans within plans. Higgs wants to hit De boyas and find his get away money. He wants Mary to tell him where the money is and he’ll kill Andreas as a favor. Or is this all a plan by Andreas?

They can’t stop And they get followed by Rafi, Nolan etc. Rafi shakes down Mary and she introduces him to the general. The Moran knocks his non swimming butt into the bull. Nolen asks Rafi to become a revolutionary and kill Andreas.

Back in the states Moran starts his affair and is sloppy. Even though Andreas de boys knows something is up. And Rafi tracks him down

Rafi is a bad hombre. A pimp and hustler. He is finds out who Mary is and wants to do something horrible for money. Luckily Mary and Moran figure it out and escape him. Or do they?

Walking the streets of Santo Domingo with Mary. A flash back to his war when he was caught and hung out with Paloma, Luci. It was more like paint ball but Moran (Moron) shot and almost killed a man. Back at the hotel a gang of girls are claiming to be Lucí. Mary gets cornered by Rafi, the man Moran shot in the hip. I love the music conversation Lucí and George had when he was shot up and a prisoners.

Moran is in DR looking for the girl that shot him. A few flash backs and a sexy romantic scene with Mary. Rolling blackouts interrupt there rendezvous and the lights come on in the middle of the act.

Hilarious. Nolan is a dead beat PI and he befriended Moran. He moves into the motel. They were in DR together. Nolan is watching the livers in a rented room. Something big is about to happen.

Classic enleonard character opener. Meet 38 year old Moran. Ex Marine, who saw combat in DR 1965. Detroit native, Florida transplant and divorcee. He is living the simple life being an innkeeper on some beach front motel.

McDonald bros at Cavern club with Greg Shaw and the Pandoras. They make a live record with Sky Saxon and Sky’s ego. They get drummer Roy McDonald and start practicing in Beverly Hills. Of course they have to sing-song-ditch Buddy Hacketts house

God I love this book. Even Jeff McDonald going to rehab is a hilarious. His family accidentally gets suckered into a Scientology rehab program and then he goes to a real rehab and it’s with Ellis Valentine, who sucker punches him. And rehab ends with a cringe commercial for RAD

This is such crap, especially the art. But issue 3 caught me off guard! It is good! Harvey dent dream sequence opening caught my attention. Cat women plot got interesting. Bruce Wayne shite for interesting. I’m hooked…for the moment

Mourinho parks the bus. 5-4 is a hockey score

A stand alone prequel by the gang. They have the miller script for “Armageddon” issue and that is very interesting

Frank miller goes dark and paranoid with drug taking super soldier Nuke. The avengers and captain America show up there is a panel of captain America stroking the flag and says “the only thing I’m loyal to is the dream”

Daredevil has to fight Nuke the US super soldier. So dumb

Fun episode from the gang. Great art and awesome palette. Matt Murdock in street clothes fighting a lunatic dressed as daredevil. Karen trying to shoot up heroin before she is shot to death. A reports wife is hung in her kitchen. This issue has it all

Funny how little action there is in these comics. Karen gets hit by her abusive boyfriend/dealer. That’s about it. A lot words and Catholicism. Some good close-up’s of faces showing emotion by Mazzucchelli. Some still faces, but overall good visual emotions.

First 2 issues. Lots of words and Mazzucchelli’s art isn’t as stunning and grounded as Batman year one. Definitely prose and character that miller would explore in sin city, adnauseam.