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Three scans of awesome pencils by the talented @val_delandro . These are from X-Factor 40-41. SO DANG NICE. cc: @BrianMichaelBendis

Here's a hilarious scene from THIS MEANS WAR, written by Simon Kinberg. Hope you enjoy it! :)

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a verrrry funny bit from SHERLOCK HOLMES, written by Simon Kinberg.

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a good bit of logic from SHERLOCK HOLMES, written by Simon Kinberg.

#simon kinberg #jude law #robert downey jr

Some clever writing in XXX: STATE OF THE UNION, by Simon Kinberg, featuring Willem Dafoe

#willem dafoe #simon kinberg

From the Simon Kinberg-written film, XXX: STATE OF THE UNION

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In MR & MRS SMITH, the two main characters are "assassins in competition", and in this scene, they compare their "number", as folks might compare how many people they've slept with, but this is about how many people they have killed. It's humorous...

#simon kinberg #brad pitt #angelina jolie

I LOVE the movie MR & MRS SMITH, and this moment is just sooooo amazing and playful.

#angelina jolie #brad pitt #simon kinberg

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CLIVE OWEN Sin City (2005) dir. Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino

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just a crazy wild comicbook that became a crazy wild movie.

In the past year or so, I have become SUCH a fan of TERROR INC, a character created by DG CHICHESTER and MARGARET CLARK, and drawn originally by KLAUS JANSON. But "Schreck" really came into his own with DG and Jorge Zaffino, in his short-lived Marvel series.

It's rare to see a comicbook character with SUCH a distinctive "voice" and style. I don't know if it was a great book (it should have been), but it was most definitely a memorable one.

#dg chichester #epic comics #terror inc #comicbooks #jorge zaffino

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Frank Miller “Nancy Callahan” Sin City (2022) Source

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It really is hard to imagine another writer/artist who has shaken the entire comics industry multiple times, as Frank Miller has...

I think we cal all agree that Frank Miller is great drawing stair-case shots...

#frank miller

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Can I ask why the Pinkerton agents get such a bad rap online? All I know from them comes from the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear, where they help take down a gang of extorsionist coal miners.

So the Valley of Fear concerns a real-life incident that helped to shape the Pinkertons' reputation: their destruction of the Molly Maguires in the coalfields of Pennsylvania. An early trade union of miners of mostly Irish extrction, the leadership of the Molly Maguires were accused of murder, arson, kidnapping, and a whole host of other crimes by undercover Pinkerton agents who had infiltrated their ranks on behalf of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, who the Molly Maguires were fighting over wages, hours, and working conditions. Dozens were sent to jail for long stretches of time, and ten men were ultimately hanged as a result of Pinkerton testimony.

The fact that the evidence against the Maguires largely stemmed from undercover informants paid by management to disrupt and destroy their organization and other suspect sources of evidence like jaihouse snitches, and that the prosecutions against the Maguires were personally carried out by the CEO of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in the midst of labor conflict over who ran the coalfields, has led a lot of labor historians to conclude that the Molly Maguires were stitched up in the courts and that the Pinkertons committed wholesale perjury, acted as agents provocateur to provoke the crimes they then testified to, and caused the judicial murder of ten men.

That was just the start of their long and inglorious history of being the favorite goons of anti-union robber barons: the gun thugs who were outfought at Homestead were Pinkertons, as were the private armies who fought for capital during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 who had to be once again bailed out by the National Guard. Likewise, their foray into bearing false witness continued with the manufactured confession that named UMW leader Big Bill Haywood as the man who arranged for the assassination of Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho.

So yeah, the Pinkertons have earned every last drop of their evil reputation. There is blood on their hands.

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I knew someone who grew up in Pittsburgh. You cannot fathom how hated a name Pinkerton is in Pittsburgh, even over a century after the Homestead strikes. I don't think it can be understated how much of a stain on American labor history they are.