#fm capture

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Thanks to my rudimentary French, I can only surmise what is going on in this panel. My guess is that the story is set in pre First World War France or perhaps northern Italy, a time of much great Power espionage. I suspect the young man is an operative in British, French or Italian intelligence and has been tracked down by an Austro-Hungarian agent. The father and daughter who are sheltering him come to his aid. Equally, all three could be Hungarian nationalists, involved in anti government activities. From a female dominance perspective, I love the fact it is the woman who takes out the bad guy and captures him; the two men chat and speculate while she does all the hard work!

Again, this is a comic I cannot source at present so if anyone can help me with that, I would be very grateful.

From the collection of Mats Karlsson, with thanks.

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can i. get a very small charles.

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A year in film - day 7 - Homecoming by f/5.6ish Via Flickr: Nikon FM, Nikkor 35mm f/2 Ai, Harman Phoenix

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Mascara Negra, or the Black Mask, was a Batwoman like character who appeared briefly in the Spanish language comics El Coyote and El Coyote Cabalga. Although these titles ran from 1947 until 1955, Mascara Negra only had four outings in them. Intriguingly, the mysterious black masked and caped heroine is the alter ego of Elodia Zarate, a Madrid based judge, weary of seeing criminals she wishes to convict continually getting away with their crimes. She therefore pursues a one woman campaign to bring the escaped bad guys to justice. This she does through terrorising the criminals into confessing through her supernatural appearance, an impression aided by her super power which enables her to teleport across locations. This helps her catch the baddies disposing of evidence or committing another crime. Also, like Phantom Lady, Mascara Negra can summon up darkness to confuse, intimidate and capture her enemies. If the clever stuff doesn’t do the trick, the Black Mask is also skilled in jiu-jitsu and packs a .45 which usually helps her overcome resistance.

In the panel above, she is assisted in her capture of the criminals by the woman of the house to whom Bob, an investigative reporter, has brought her to recuperate after rescuing her from a car wreck caused by the smugglers she was pursuing, forcing her car off the road. The unfortunate Bob is then shot by the same gangsters. Hearing the shot, the two women rush outside and catch the gangsters standing over the wounded Bob. Faced with the fully recovered Mascara Negra’s pistol, the two men drop their own gun and surrender to the women, allowing the heroine’s companion to tie them up. The immortal fm capture dialogue sounds so good in Spanish: “Atelos fuerte, senora. Dentro, de poco hableran ante la policia.” (“Tie them up tightly, ma’am. Soon they will be talking to the police.”). Bob is left to the lady of the house to fix his wound, which she does, while Elodia escorts their bound prisoners to the police. Mascara Negra wins the day again!

With thanks to Mats Karlsson for sourcing this post

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Film 365 - day 254 - Somerset cottages by f/5.6ish Via Flickr: Nikon FM, Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 Ai-S, Lomography CN400

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Reposting this au

Resume:

The fae Prince has been captured by the human king, yet he shortly manages to escape.

Unfortunately his wounds were quite heavy since they weren't made by simple human weapons.

The young lady who fled away from home cause her parents wanted to marry her off. Has a weak personality yet on impulse she can be quite the trouble maker, she didn't wish to marry in the first place, especially with the young priest who happens to be a mean childhood acquaintance.

As she managed to flee quite far with the help of stolen goods from her home, she ended up living in a small abandoned cottage( which is actuallybetween the Briar Valley and human Kingdom territory).

Yet as the days passed she one day woke up with a stranger trespassing her home! The unknown man almost killed her on the spot yet due his dire injuries he fell unconscious before he could strike.

What shall she do ?! All I can say is that they

somehow end up living together for a while lol

+ comic page explanation:

this takes place a few day later after Malleus left(the briar valley knights found him so he managed to be treated properly and return home) our FM finally had been freed by the burden of sheltering Hornton (she doesn't know his real identity) only for her ex-fiancé to find her ! why keeps the young priest who happens to be from a prestigious family being so insistent on marrying this countryside pumpkin??

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Football Manger 2014: No commentary longplay [007]

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The praying mantis himself!

Happy birthday to Jim Carrey, my acting hero and big inspiration.

Previous year’s birthday art below ⬇️

Last year I didn’t have the chance to make a birthday piece, but in 2022 I drew a more complex piece with several of his characters. I’ve never posted it here on tumblr so why not add it onto this post? I believe I’ve really improved at capturing Jim’s facial features since I last drew just him.

I called this one “You Are In Living Color”

It features, starting from the top left going down: The Mask, Truman Burbank from the Truman Show, Lloyd Christmas from Dumb and Dumber, Dr. Robotnik from the Sonic movies; From the top right going down: The Grinch, The Riddler from Batman Forever, Ace Ventura, and Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color. Jim himself is in the center, on the top is raindrops inspired by his art piece ��Sunshower,” on the bottom is the red ripples from the cover of the Weeknd’s Dawn FM album on which Jim is featured, and the background gradient is from the cover of his novel Memoirs and Misinformation.

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The weird and wonderful history of Kowloon as a digital interactive space - Part I

The Kowloon Walled City was one of the most emblematic locations in Hong Kong due to its irregular, fast-paced and largely ungoverned growth within a minute parcel of land. During the occupation of Hong Kong Island by the British in the mid 18th century, the Qing authorities surrounded the area with walls, turning it into a strategic position from where to closely inspect the foreign nation's covert activities. Almost a century later, during World War II, the area was seized by the Japanese, who tore down the walls and repurposed the stone for the construction of a nearby airport.

After the war, China would eventually regain possession of the city, though the disinterest of local authorities in addressing its increasing social disturbances placed it in a downward path to a state of utter degradation. By the 1970s, Kowloon had become the epicentre of Hong Kong's criminal underworld, dominated by a handful of its most vicious Triads.

Towards the last years of its existence, the ancient settlement was as a precarious heap of concrete, sheltering nearly half a million people within less than seven acres of land. Cultural and political changes in China made it increasingly difficult for this urban anomaly to remain unaddressed. In the late 1980s, an action plan was put together aiming to relocate its inhabitants and reconvert the real estate into an inner-city park. Stories about residents refusing to leave their unsafe and unsanitary homes were featured prominently in newspapers, baffling readers all over the world. Once the single most densely populated area in the world, this enclave was an architectural aberration whose disconcerting aesthetic influenced numerous works of art in different fields of creation; including a small yet consequential number of video games that briefly reference or prominently feature this abominably transfixing space.

九龍島 (Kyu-Ryu-Tou) - Starcraft - 1986

The year is 2025. An arms dealer escalates the tensions between East and West by developing a genetic weapon in a secret base at Kowloon Island. The United Nations react by sending in their best man, Jamie Starr. Unrelated to the Walled City itself, the first game to be located in the Kowloon peninsula - and indeed include the name as a part of its title - is this obscure turn-based RPG, Kyu-Ryu-Tou for the NEC PC88 and FM-77 machines. The game is a sequel to Shangai, released the year before, featuring the same protagonist. Starcraft would also go on to produce a third instalment in 1987 named TO.KY.O. Clearly there wasn't much regard here from the developers part for geographic accuracy, as Kowloon is depicted here as being an island. While Hong Kong's southern territory is composed of an actual island, all the different areas named Kowloon are located in the mainland.

Riot City - Westone - 1991

One of the most shameless specimens among a relatively long list of Final Fight clones, Riot City contains subtle references to Kowloon, though never referring to it by name. Two narcotics detectives are assigned with the mission of dismantling a cartel running a crime-ridden located in fictional Riot Island. This recurring yet geographically nonsensical notion of Kowloon as an island comes up here, yet again. The final moment of the introduction sequence for this minor Sega arcade success shows both protagonists approaching a tight cluster of buildings whose source inspiration is quite unmistakable. Because Westone maintained ownership of most of this production's intellectual property, a later port to the PC Engine entitled Riot Zone was made possible with the help of Hudson soft. Kowloon's Gate - Zeque - 1997

Reviving the Walled City through the lens of cybermystic surrealism, Kowloon's Gate is a dense, daunting adventure masterfully capturing the slum's dark and narrow recesses. This 1997 Japanese Playstation exclusive spans across four discs of unparalleled full motion 3D CGI spectacle, alternating with real-time 3D dungeons brimming with outlandish characters and concepts deeply inspired by Chinese history, geography and cultural traditions.

Ironically, Zeque managed to embed the theme of Feng-Shui, the ancient geomantic art seeking harmony between the individual and their surrounding space, into a story set in the world's most historically untidy district.

SaGa Frontier - Square - 1997

SaGa Frontier takes place in a solar system named The Regions, composed of multiple inhabited worlds for the player to explore, each with its different degree of civilizational development and culture. One of these planets goes by the suggestive name Kūron. Its pervasive neon light signs, food stalls, makeshift cabins and rooftop scaffolding instantly evoke the memory of China’s so-called city of darkness.

Shadow Hearts - Sacnoth - 2001

Shortly after the release of Koudelka, Sacnoth's initiated the development of Shadow Hearts, the first episode from a cult RPG trilogy exclusively designed for the Playstation 2. In good Japanese fashion, the game proposes an anachronistic yet visually suggestive depiction of Kowloon, portraying its architectural style and degree of decay as it existed in the late twentieth century, despite the fact that the game's events take place during the nineteen twenties.

Just as noteworthy is the almost complete absence of any inhabitants, which inadvertently make this portrayal of the quarter eerily reminiscent of the state in which it was found circa 1993 or 1994, as local authorities brought the long, arduous eviction project to a close.

Shenmue II - SEGA AM2 - 2001

Shenmue II exhibits the most complete and period-accurate video game representation of Kowloon to date. While more recent games featuring this area may represent a number of its aspects with the aid of improved visual fidelity, none features it with such depth as this masterpiece of masterpieces. More than mere background decoration, Kowloon exists in the Shenmue series as a crucial, climacteric element of its modern epic narrative.

It is a well known fact that Yu Suzuki and his team conducted extensive research of the region so as to achieve a result that impresses even to this day. It must be noted, however, that they have similarly taken a fair share of creative liberty when converting the area to best align with the themes they wished to explore. Further reading is required for a more complete context in this regard, namely how this area ties with an early Dreamcast tech demo design which fans lovingly named Tower of Babel. Ostensively, technical limitations did curtail the degree of precision in which the surrounding area could be replicated. The aerial view from the cutscene in which Ryo Hazuki arrives on location places Kowloon at an imaginary degree of elevation over surrounding vegetation. In the year of 1987, during which the game is set, the actual enclave stood perfectly levelled with a myriad of other modern buildings, undoubtedly more than could be reproduced under the circumstances. These trifling considerations aside, Shenmue II entirely succeeds in capturing the vibrant life and mesmerizing beauty of the destitute and decayed urban agglomeration, in a way that it was deemed entirely impossible at the time of its release.

For reasons entirely related to per post content limitations imposed by Tumblr, this article will be continued in PART II.