#Gunmen

[rayz-gamma]

(GURREN LAGANN) 2007

One of my favorite top 10 mecha anime series despite it's short run compared to other series like Gundam and it's decades long pedigree. This series caught me by surprise and never disappointed when it released in america.

[jeydeearr]

"The Assassin, Sweeper, and Marksman"

Day 17 of drawing whatever the hell I want because this year's Inktober prompts suck.

[brunnerman59]

[loiterer87]

Finished this at three in the morning, because of work. Bleh. Anyway, day late but let's talk about Orden Ogan and their immortal mascot, Alister Vale! 

A German Power Metal band formed in 1996 by two guys named Sebastian. The name meaning The Order Of Fear using the German 'Orden' and the old Celtic word for 'fear'. The band's albums all follow a loose concept about Alister Vale, a cursed immortal throughout the ages.

Here, I've done Alister during his time in the Old West, chronicled in the 2017 album, Gunmen. Power metal with an old western kick? Why not! Other timelines explored have included a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter and a science fiction dystopia where ai wipes out most of humanity. So fun subjects then... 

I've also heard they've got a couple of comics out about Alister and his travels, so I may have to track them down...

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Patrick 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

July 13,1940

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

13 Luglio 1940

[trioxina245]

Iron Horse Gunsmoke, paperback cover by Victor Prezio, 1965

[viagginterstellari]

Dallol, 2018

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The district recreation club was the social center for the slum boys what the Y. M. C. A. was to their fellows at a slightly higher level of the social structure. At the age of fourteen, Williams was as tall and strong as most boys of sixteen or eighteen; and because of his fistic powers and general toughness was soon on terms of intimacy with members of the notorious Tanner Smith mob, which was then staging its last fight for control of the district (they lost out to the equally notorious Madden mob, which still controls that and other districts of the city). With other members of the mob, Williams took part in the various gangster activities; robbing freight cars, wharves, warehouses; exacting financial tributes from local store owners whom they terrorized with threats of bombing and other atrocities; but mainly in voting illegally and terrorizing non-Tammany voters on election day; and at other times terrorizing strikers or their employers (whichever side paid the most), and fighting with and raiding the headquarters of the Madden mob. Williams proved a valuable recruit and was soon as dangerous and skillful with a knife, club, or gun as he was with his clever fists.

Gradually he began going in with other gangsters for the more remunerative crimes (pay-roll robberies, safe-cracking, hold-ups, and the like); and before he was eighteen Williams was "keeping" a girl in a Broadway apartment and getting initiated into the night life of the city. His mother and sisters remained at the old home on West 49th Street, but Williams did not neglect them. He had long ago dropped even the pretence of legitimate work; but he contributed regularly and generously to the support of his mother and sisters and visited them almost daily.

Before he was twenty, Williams had been arrested a dozen times as a suspect in the various gangster killings and other activities of the city; but never did he serve a day in prison after appearing in court. The usual procedure (which the gangsters themselves preferred to formal arraignment and trial) was as follows: after a killing or robbery, the detectives would arrest and bring to headquarters any gangsters whom they could find, subject them to an intensive third degree (often beating them unmercifully), and then turn them loose when the beatings had failed to elicit evidence connecting them with the crime in question.

This was all a part of the regular routine of Williams's life; and while he took it as a matter of course, he had seen so much of corruption among detectives, district attorneys, and even judges that he came to have a strong hatred for representatives of law and order. Wise to the ways of the under-world, a shrewd and clever criminal who never worked except after laying carefully-thought-out plans, it was not until Williams tried to operate in a strange city, with gangsters he did not know, that he got into serious trouble.

In 1918, at the age of twenty, he was asked to come to Boston with three other gangsters to steal the pay roll of a large corporation. It was to be the Christmas pay roll, estimated at $60,000. Through some carelessness of the local tipsters, the information was inaccurate; so that Williams got only a comparatively small pay roll of $15,000, in the seizing of which he shot an armed guard who attempted to draw his gun. Because of the shooting (although the guard did not die for two years) and because of the prestige of the corporation, there was a great hue and cry about the crime. One of the Boston gangsters was arrested on suspicion.

Fearing a long prison term for himself, he implicated Williams and three other men. In spite of this, it is doubtful that Williams could have been convicted. The books of a New York firm of longshoremen showed that Williams and his pals had been working in New York on the day of the robbery! Thus did Williams plan his crimes before he went to work. But the man who had implicated him was persuaded to turn state's evidence; so, in spite of the efforts of a former district attorney, who had been paid a retainer of $3,000 to "fix" the case, Williams and his pals were given ten to fifteen-year terms in the state prison (the crooked ex-district attorney, by the way, was later disbarred and sent to prison at the time when two other district attorneys were disbarred and removed from office). The informer, as it happens, was killed within a few months.

Williams, as I came to know him in the prison, was in many ways a fine character. He was entirely reliable and honest with his friends, deceitful and treacherous with his enemies, and utterly without fear. He would never steal or harm poor people; he would select his victims solely from among the moneyed classes. From one point of view I have always found certain gangsters to be, on the whole, the very highest type of criminal. Although there are many hangers-on of a much lower grade in gang circles, the real gangster is in many ways a fellow who lives strictly up to a stern though predatory code of his own. I liked Williams, personally, better than any other criminal I have ever known.

But he was definitely antisocial in his attitude toward law and order and reformation. While he would admit the theoretical necessity of laws and policemen, he had seen so much of corruption in the ranks of law-enforcement officials that he knew himself to be no worse than many of these, and far better than some. He took the cynical attitude. "What the hell," he would say. "Everybody's out for the money. Get it, long as you don't have to take it from some poor bastard that can't afford to lose it. But get it. Once you've got it, nobody cares ---- where you got it."

When he left prison, after serving a little more than nine years, he merely became more cautious, going in for the bootleg and night-club racketeering which had developed during his years in prison. I met him in New York in the autumn of 1931. We were discussing the state of affairs in regard to unemployment and the slackness in racketeering profits. "It's pretty tough," said Williams. "I've got my apartment and my mother's home to keep up. My two sisters are married and their husbands haven't had work for months. There's not much money in the rackets, the way things are nowadays." I asked him, in view of this, how he was able to keep up his own establishment and his mother's and also help his sisters keep alive during the current depression.

"There's only one thing to do," said Williams. "I'm doing it, and so is almost every one I know. Grab a gun and go out and steal!" In his various attitudes and general character, Williams was typical of his kind of criminal.

- Victor F. Nelson, Prison Days and Nights. Second edition. With an introduction by Abraham Myerson, M.D. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1936. p. 85-88.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Beheaded gunmen and fishermen displayed in Hanoi, northern Vietnam

French vintage postcard

[1five1two]

'The Watchers'. Eric Bowman.

[todayscroll]

Gunmen in Syria kill at least 10 in Alawite village, war monitor says

Gunmen killed at least 10 people in Syria on Friday in an attack on a village from former president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, in what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called a “massacre”. The war monitor said the attacks “bear all the hallmarks of sectarian killings”.

[gurutrends]

Police Seek Anambra Residents Assistance to Identify Corpse of Man Killed by Gunmen

Police Seek Anambra Residents Assistance to Identify Corpse of Man Killed by Gunmen The Police in Anambra State are calling on residents of the state to come forward with credible information that will lead to the identification of the lifeless body of a man it recovered dead in Onitsha. The corpse of the yet-to-be-identified young man was recovered along the Onitsha/Owerri Express Road. The…

[ghlagatindotcom]

How Kofi Adoma’s Eyes Was Shot By Unknown Gunmen - Details

Kofi Adomah Nwanwani, a renowned journalist and CEO of Kofi TV, was severely injured during a traditional funeral ceremony in Dormaa, Bono Region. According to an exclusive report by MyJoyonline, the incident occurred when some chiefs discharged gunpowder from a musket at Kofi Adomah during the ceremony, striking him in the face. The sad incident occurred when Kofi Adomah shifted himself to…

[brunnerman59]

[alabs1]

Katsina: Gunmen Invade Community, Kill Miyetti Allah Chairman, Two Others

Gunmen have killed the Katsina State chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeder Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Surajo Leader, and two others in the Kusada Local Government Area of the state. The incident occurred on Saturday night when the gunmen invaded the Mai Rana community in Kusada LGA. Sources revealed that the gunmen also abducted two of the deceased’s wives and his daughter, who is an…

[rightnewshindi]

भाजपा विधायक ने लौटाए दोनों गनर, मोबाइल फोन किया बंद, अधिकारियों में मचा हड़कंप; जानें पूरा मामला

भाजपा विधायक ने लौटाए दोनों गनर, मोबाइल फोन किया बंद, अधिकारियों में मचा हड़कंप; जानें पूरा मामला #UPNews

Uttar Pradesh News: नौ अक्टूबर को लखीमपुर में हुई मारपीट में ऐक्शन न होने से नाराज भाजपा विधायक योगेश वर्मा ने सुरक्षा में बढ़ाए गए दो गनरों को वापस लौटा दिया। पुलिस अफसरों को इसकी जानकारी मिली तो हड़कंप मच गया। अधिकारियों ने गनर को फिर वापस विधायक के पास भेज दिया है। अधिकारी विधायक को मनाने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं। उधर विधायक का फोन बंद है। वह अधिकारियों से नहीं मिल रहे हैं। बीते बुधवार को अर्बन…