Yes indeed.
Murder Me Dead #5
Call me the scourge of the lettercols, but I'm here to once again write a letter about one of my favourite comics. I absolutely enjoyed Murder Me Dead #4. It was more exciting than Arnold Swarzenegger in The Sixth Day and I watched that after I read this gem of a story. Most of the characters reek of evil. Take Tony, for example. This man is filled with hatred. Terrible thoughts fill this man's mind, and he isn't afraid to express them. Then, when I thought Sam Fred might be a good guy and rescues the damsel in distress (Ms. Torres), he turns out to be a real louse and uses the payment of sex to get what he wants. Sam is as bad as the rest of them.
I was quite on edge when Steve and Tara went through their interactions and their mild argument leads them to an intimate makeup. When things seemed like it might calm down a bit...then...boy, was I dead wrong! Tara and Tony tussle for the knife and get physical. Steven then comes to the rescue, and before I knew it, Steven and Tony were engaged in the most violent showdown I have seen in a long time.
My uncle Jose grew up with the zoot-suiters and witnessed violence amongst the Navy and the zoot-suiters way back when. In fact, he was a zoot-suiter. This is why he later went into Bruce Lee's Kung Fu schools and later became an instructor. He learned the ways of violence, but learned to channel this violence into a way of harmony and peace. Peace finally reached Bruce Lee as my uncle remembers his solemn funeral. Showing my uncle some of the Violence in this comic brought memories of those violent zoot-suiter days. He still enjoyed this issue, but he's pretty old, so I don't think he'll become a regular reader.
When we come to the end of this story, I was quite shocked to see Tara stab Tony to death and then see Steven fulfill this pact in blood by plunging the knife back into the dead Tony. Tara and Tony married in Vegas and end their legacy of marriage with Tony's bloody death. Majorly superb story, and I am definitely looking forward to more of the same! Hey, I'll stop by to watch The Lone Gunmen with you next friday night on your TV!
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