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Fargo for Howard Chaykin’s FARGO: HELL ON WHEELS

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John Benteen's pulp mercenary Neal Fargo, by Jordi Bernet.

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Crowdfunding Corner: Howard Chaykin comes to Zoop with John Benteen's FARGO: Hell On Wheels

Crowdfunding Corner: Howard Chaykin comes to Zoop with John Benteen's FARGO: Hell On Wheels #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Backer Beware: Crowdfunding projects are not guaranteed to be delivered and/or delivered when promised. We always recommend to do your research before backing.Disclosure: Graphic Policy’s founder Brett is a member of the Zoop team. If you’re a fan of comics, you know the name Howard Chaykin. The legendary creator of American Flagg!. The man who first brought Star Wars to comics. He has worked…

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Episode 799: Howard Chaykin on Mentoring and FARGO

Today's guest needs no introduction, but we have episode post space to fill so we're doing one anyway.  He's a creator whose balance of romanticism and pragmatism has kept him in the business and thrall of comics for almost 50 years. As an artist, a writer, and a cartoonist, he has almost certainly forgotten more about comics, history and storytelling than most of us will ever know. But thankfully, two of his latest projects are about giving that knowledge back to the comics community. The first is Hey Kids! Comics!, a roman a clef work from Image about the history of mainstream comics whose final issue just came out last month and whose trade collection is due next month. The other is COMIC BOOK U, a series of in-person seminars with writer/editor Mark Waid kicking off next Saturday, November 18th at UCLA that looks to give attendees "an immersive tutorial into the process and craft of creating comic books" . In addition to all of that, he is reviving John Benteen's early 20th Century soldier-of-fortune creation Fargo with an upcoming 96-page adaptation through the crowdfunding platform ZOOP. We are, of course, talking about Howard Chaykin, and Greg got a chance to chat with him about comic book know-how, the collision of past & future, musical theater as comic book inspiration, just how neat Jason Bernard was, and a lot more on today's episode!

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What You Need to Know Before You Read Mark's Gospel | Beyond the Words

COMMENTARY:

The Gospel of Mark was written by Cornelius, the centurion feature in Acts 10, immedately after his encounter with Peter some time between 27 and 40 CE and was transmitted to his direct report, Theophilus,  in the Italian Cohort of the Praetorian Guard in Rome. Theophilus was basically the Bishop of the Roman Christian fellowship in the Roman legions that gathered across the Empire in enclaves known as belonging to the cult of Mithra for security reasons. It was dangerous to be a Christian until the Milvian Bridge.

The Gospel of Mark was published in Alexandria by John Mark, the Beloved Disciple and a  protégée of Peter. John Mark wrote the Gospel of John about his relationship with Jesus which began when John Mark was 12 and Jesus began Him ministry in 28 CE. John Mark wrote his Gospel of John at the urging of Papias because the Gospel of Mark was know as  εὐαγγελίου , which was the original title given to  what we now call The Gospel of Peter that was transmitted by Pilate to Rome that compelled Tiberius to propose enrolling Jesus in the Roman Pantheon., which the Senate rejected on the pretext that they weren't consulted. Christian, the Roman soldier's slang for "Jesus Follower", was introduced to the Roman elite at this time. εὐαγγελίου εὐαγγελίου

The Gospel of Peter is the orignina text of the εὐαγγελίου Pilate sent to Rome and it is especially signifcant because it includes the soldiers's shared vision of the unilateral covenant cutting ceremony between God and the Italian Cohort identical to the unilateral covenant cutting ceremony between God and Abram in Genesis 15. This vision provides a divine legitimacy to the Empire the Caesar's attempted to bestow upon themselves by declration. The practical effect was that the Italian Cohort became the New Wineskin into which the New Wine of Jesus was poured that has conveyed directly to the Command Sergeant Major of the US Army siiting in an office across from the US Army Chief of Staff by way of the US COnstiution.

The Gospel of Mark begins by referencing this εὐαγγελίου  of the Gospel of Peter and needs to be understood as an intelligence  briefing that starts by saying "This is what led up to the εὐαγγελίου  communication to the Emperor" It is not a title. The Gospel of Mark begins when Jesus appears above the Roman military horizon and takes command of John the Baptist's Repentance constituency. The Gospel of Mark was written as a military intelligence report and was expected to be understood  literally, in the same manner that Custer's message to Benteen "Come Quick" was intended to understood literally.

what the Gospel of Mark adds to the Gospel of Peter is waht we now call Quelle of the source, which was the contents of the routine surveillance file begun by the Roman military intelligence service on Jesus when he took over John the Baptist's cadre. The contours of Quellw can be traced throughout the Gospels by the Roman apparatus of εὐθὺς, which operates like a modrn footnote and means "Eyewitness testimony" all of which was collected before either Resurrection or the remanding of Jesus to the Roman chain of custody except for Acts 10L16, when Peter's testimony was added to the archive and fleshed out the spinal time line of the Roman intelligence log.

The combination of the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John is to present a combined narrative consisting of a Greco-Roman play-by=blay with the color commentary of a Hellenistic Jew providing the Passover horse radish missing from the Gospel of Mark.  The relationship of John Mark to Jesus in the Gospel of John is more or less identical to that of the idol worship of a batboy to Lou Gherig.  

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Extreme Prejudice will be released on Blu-ray on May 17 via Lionsgate. The 1987 action thriller film will be the 26th installment in the Vestron Video Collector’s Series.

Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.) directs from a script by Deric Washburn (The Deer Hunter) and Harry Kleiner (Bullitt). Nick Nolte stars with Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, and Clancy Brown.

Renato Casaro’s vintage poster art has been utilized for the cover. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke

Isolated score selections with audio interview from music historian John Takis

Interview with director Walter Hill

Interview with actor Michael Ironside

Interview with actor Clancy Brown

Interview with director of photography Matthew F. Leonetti

Vintage EPK

Theatrical trailer

Teaser trailer

TV spots

Still gallery

Jack Benteen is an old fashioned Texas Ranger working out of El Paso, across the border in a small Mexican village resides his one time childhood friend Cash Bailey, who has become the districts drug running king. The two men have another link in sensual Sarita, a one-time mistress to Cash, and now Jack's lover. Both men run into a CIA-backed para-military group headed by a cold and calculating army major who plans to terminate Cash.

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Fargo by John Benteen

Fargo  by John Benteen (Ben Haas) 1969 Belmont

Set in the first decades of the twentieth century, Fargo is sometime marketed as an adventure series, sometimes as a late period western. This first installment is pure western, though more Sergio Leone than John Ford.

Fargo is hired to help transport silver from a mine in Mexico. The short volume was filled primarily with double-crosses and changing loyalties. One of Fargo's appeals is his code of honor tempered by harsh pragmatism. The kind that sets up a teen to be raped a little bit in order to keep her from being raped a lot.

Fargo is also known for his personalized weapons - the Batangas knife he got from the Phillipines and a sawed-off shotgun given to him by Teddy Roosevelt. The shotgun is basically an artillery piece, with a spread of several yards and capable of downing dozens at a time, which is not how sawed-off shotguns work.

Future installments may have more novel settings, but this was a pretty standard western, a bit darker, certainly tamer than the Piccadilly Cowboys.

Available in Kindle ebook from Amazon

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THE TRAIL ENDS AT HELL (John Benteen)

Back all those decades ago when I was in high school reading The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov for fun, I also read John Benteen’s Fargo series.   I came across this one off by Benteen, a cattle drive ending in a city taken over by corrupt forces.   The leader of the cattle drive defeats the bad guys, falls in love and helps a town sheriff become a grown up.   Not a bad way to spend an afternoon’s reading time.   Odd to think that I no longer read Dostoevsky but still read Benteen.    

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Fargo 13: Shotgun Man

The Colorado was the wildest, hardest river in America. Simply staying alive on the rapids took plenty of nerve and plenty of luck. After which there have been the boys who lined it. Teddy Roosevelt referred to as them wolves—old-time gunfighters and desperados who...

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Latin American Wars 1900-1941

My latest addition in the Osprey Men-at-Arms series is Latin American Wars 1900-1941. Subtitled “’Banana Wars,’ Border Wars & Revolutions,” it covers mostly small wars of Latin America. The booklet does not cover the Mexican revolution and civil wars of the teens and the Chaco War between Bolivia and Peru in the 1930s. That was covered in a separate booklet.

Philip S. Jowett mentions in the introduction that Honduras had no fewer than 17 attempted uprisings, military coups, and revolutions between 1920 to 1923. The armies were often small and ill-equipped but could have surprisingly high casualties as percentage of combatants. In 1906 Guatemala and El Salvador fought a war in one battle the Guatemalans had an estimated loss of 2,800 dead and El Salvador had 700 dead and another 1,100 wounded. Most of the wounded would probably die the next few days. This is out of armies that numbered between 3,000- 6,000 on average.

The first section covers Central America 1900-1911. Lots of Remington rolling block single shot rifles used and even some 1860s percussion cap Springfield muzzle loaders. The Mauser was new and expensive.

A section is given to soldiers of fortune, mostly Americans. The U.S. had recently fought a short war against Spain and then against Filipinos. You had men with training using machine guns and Central American presidents and dictators willing to hire them. There are some fascinating stories on Lee Christmas, Tracy Richardson, Emil Holmdahl, and Guy “Machine Gun” Molony. There is a great book

waiting to be written on U.S. soldiers of fortune of this period. The late Ivan Musicant wrote a great book The Banana Wars. This could be a quasi-sequel.

I was thinking while reading this section of Ben Haas as “John Benteen’s” “Fargo” series, Lou Cameron as “Ramsay Thorne’s” “Captain Gringo/Renegade,” and Peter McCurtin as “Jack Slade’s” “Gatling” book series. All men’s adventure series from the 1970s and 80s.

Mexico had three different army rebellions in the 1920s, an Indian Yaqui rebellion in 1926-27, and the Cristero Rebellion 1927-29 which had an anti-clerical government against a devout Catholic rural population. There was on rebellion 1938-39. You never hear about these rebellions. Lots of Mausers carried in the pictures.

Central America 1921-33 covers a brief war between Panama and Costa Rica 1921 and the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua 1927-1933. I already knew a fair amount on the Marines in Nicaragua from Musicant’s The Banana Wars.

Brazil is covered with a rundown of the army, two army rebellions, and one revolution. Peru and Columbia had “the Leticia Incident” in 1932-33. Peru learned some things and improved the army. Peru and Ecuador had the Zarumilla War in 1941 where the Peruvian Army had a mini-blitzkrieg using Czechoslovakian tanks and American and Italian aircraft. I found it very interesting a picture of Peruvian Civil Guard motorcyclists all armed with German made MP-34 submachine guns. The Peruvians were using French made “Adrian” helmets while the Ecuadorian Army was using Italian helmets. Ecuador attempt to involve the U.S. on their side claiming Peru was using Japanese troops.

By this point, a favorite rifle of mine from this period, the Czechoslovakian CZ-24 rifle was almost ubiquitous in South America.

The coup led by Sgt. Fulgencio Batista against the Machado regime in Cuba in 1933 is also covered.

After World War 1, there are lots of Spanish Mauser rifles. The U.S. did train and outfit the Cuban Army and Nicaraguan National Guard so they look like Marines and carry Springfield ’03 rifles and Browning Automatic Rifles giving them a distinctly different appearance from your average Banana republic army.

There are eight color plates of uniforms (and not so uniformed) combatants of these various conflicts. If you are thinking of writing some retro-pulp fiction in this period or some war-gaming scenarios, get this book. It is very enjoyable.

  Latin American Wars 1900-1941 published first on https://sixchexus.weebly.com/

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Preview: Extreme Prejudice (Bluray)

Preview: Extreme Prejudice (Bluray)

The classic cult film based on a story by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Magnum Force) and directed by Walter Hill (Red Heat, The Driver), EXTREME PREJUDICE is a 1987 Neo-western action thriller punctuated with intense violence. Nick Nolte (Cape Fear, 48 Hrs.) stars as tough Texas Ranger Jack Benteen, on a bloody crusade as he fights to bring down his childhood friend Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe:…

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Me, age 12, seeing this book in my uncle's hunting cabin: huh, hope this doesn't awaken a whole string of things within me

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Crowdfunding Corner: Howard Chaykin comes to Zoop with John Benteen's FARGO: Hell On Wheels

Crowdfunding Corner: Howard Chaykin comes to Zoop with John Benteen's FARGO: Hell On Wheels #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Backer Beware: Crowdfunding projects are not guaranteed to be delivered and/or delivered when promised. We always recommend to do your research before backing.Disclosure: Graphic Policy’s founder Brett is a member of the Zoop team. If you’re a fan of comics, you know the name Howard Chaykin. The legendary creator of American Flagg!. The man who first brought Star Wars to comics. He has worked…

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Extreme Prejudice (Walter Hill - 1987)

Depuis "48 heures", avec Nick Nolte et Eddy Murphy, je loupais rarement un Walter Hill. Le cru 1987 montrait l'affrontement entre un texas ranger, Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte, raide comme la justice et boutonné jusqu'au col) et son ami d'enfance, Cash Bailey, trempant dans les trafics les plus douteux (Powers Boothe, mal rasé et fortement imbibé au jus de pomme local et en plus je me demande s'il ne lui avait pas piqué sa meuf ou un sale truc dans le genre). Dans une fusillade finale, Hill rendait clairement hommage au grand Sam Peckinpah dont il avait scénarisé “Guet-apens“ 15 ans plus tôt et le reste du casting était at the little onions (Michael Ironside! Clancy Brown! Rip Torn! William Forsythe! Tiens, assez peu de rôles féminins curieusement...), mais le plus marquant restait Powers Boothe que j'avais déjà vu dans “La forêt d'émeraude” de John Boorman, 2 ans plus tôt* dans le rôle du  père obstiné partant à la recherche de son fils dans la forêt amazonienne. Car là c'était bien mieux : Boothe, crasseux et vulgaire,  était le parfait contrepoint à la figure noble du héros. La belle gueule de fripouille. Le type bien trouble, pas franc du collier. L'ordure vicelarde. Le salaud cynique et sans scrupule que j'adorais et que j'adorerai encore détester, bien calé au fond de son siège, durant les 30 années suivantes...

Powers "Cash Bailey" Boothe (1948-2017)

* dans le 15ème , au Kinopanorama qui n'existe plus depuis belle lurette.