"Armed and Dangerous" by acclaim

Valiant OCD · Post by **Valiant OCD** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:32:23 pm

I picked a 7 book run of an Acclaim title called "Armred and Dangerous" in the 25 cent bins this weekend. After a quick read I can see they were not your average acclaim comic book. (rated R at least...)I can't find anything on these books in the guide. Does anyone know anything about them? Assuming you are past puberty, they're actually a pretty good read. kind of a mystic river meets goodfellas feel.

cjv · Post by **cjv** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:43:01 pm

It was part of the Acclaim "Crime Story" comic grouping. Acclaim was initially going to have different labels - Valiant, Windjammer, Magic, and a Crime story group.

There were a few others published under that label.

Chris

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:58:22 pm

Good read if you'r a Bob Hall fan.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:03:02 pm

Yeah, it's crime noir with Bob Hall's art trying to immitate Franks Miller's shadows. It looks a lot better than it sounds

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It's probably the best Sin City "homage" that was done because Bob didn't try to immitate anything beyond the high contrast shadows so, unlike some other Miller immitaters who did a cold rip off of Miller's style, you can tell it's Hall's artwork . I didn't care for it as much as other books in the genre, but it's a decent read.