The newest painting of DUAL's on display has a less cartoonish and more painterly style. The piece is striking with vibrant color and motion throughout. This painting is about a year old and the influence of pop art and street art are visible. While his mural has images from or similar to his silk screen work, it also has vibrant cartoon characters and an explosive array of imagery. Yesterday I had the opportunity to see one of DUAL's full size murals as well as two recent paintings which are currently on display at the shop Fixed Gears on Dunlavey in Houston. Thus, the electric chair has its due, and the children of America are taught once again that crime does not pay, and that Beal automatic pistols, if they exist, do NOT, in fact, make the user all-powerful.Although he is probably best known for his prolific and profound Houston street art, DUAL also has an active career in canvas and mural painting. If only he'd listened to dreams! And not been, you know, a hateful, smelly, fish-lipped, firearms-obsessed geek. His guns can't save him and he can't run. Remember, every gun owner is a responsible gun owner, before the blood-crazed massacre of murder and accidental shootings start. Why not just start blasting away? That's what those guns are for! It's interesting to note here how Heslin joins many of his fellow gun enthusiasts by managing to blow a hole in himself. The one flaw in his carefully-executed plan of masterful criminality - the existence of police. ![]() Anyway, looks like he's going to commit armed robbery for the grand total of twenty bucks. The story isn't clear WHICH card game he's sticking up - if it's the card game he just left, then he ALREADY has all their money. Witness the Two-Gun-Geek's evil criminal genius- he'll wait until a card game is over and then stick 'em up right there on the street. Sure, they're loaded, go blow your brains out, you geek you. where the stakes are two Beal automatics!! What are the chances of this happening!? It's a two-gun-geek's possibly insane dreams come true!!Īnd hey kids, here's a nice closeup of Heslin's geek fish lips and strangely painted fingernails as he uses all the poker-playing power at his command to really win those guns. Well, he is dreaming a happy dream about murdering strangers, so yeah, there is some crazy involved.Īnd after being thrown out of his glamorous Roaring 20s flophouse by a couple of guys from the Bill Everett Swipe File, Heslin finds himself in a card game. Is that even a real gun? I mean, Remington made a "Beals" revolver. Nothing like the contented smile on the face of a sleeping geek as he dreams of mowing down scores of innocent victims with his all-powerful Beal Automatics. And if you want to see more grown men play pretend bang-bang games, I invite you to check out the costume contest at any nearby comic-con. Heslin continues to add to his "geek" credibility by pretending his coffee cup is a gun. Hey caption box, pay attention! Get your guns straight! The caption box in the last panel helps to build up the mystique of the Beal automatics by invoking the "thunderous kick of a. ![]() 45 automatics, which apparently embue the user with supernatural powers. Which he's obviously going to spend on action figure collectibles, right? He's a geek! Well, okay, such things don't exist yet, but he IS going to stare mesmerized at the poster for an upcoming film, fascinated by the hero's use of two Beal. Heslin blackjacks the drunk for three measly bucks. The proper response to "got a match?", by the way, is "Yeah! My butt and your face!" But that usually results in a fistfight, so use sparingly. MMmm!Ĭome with us into the glamorous world of New York city's hottest nightspots as the Roaring 20s build to a fever pitch of Great Gatsbyesque excitment! Meaning, a drunk staggers home from a bar and a sleazy bum plots to mug him. Sadly it was not to be, as the helpful narrative scroll explains, Peter Heslin would not become a superstar of the comic world, but would instead be executed for his heinous crimes, which we will shortly see. you dearly wish this guy had his own comic with the words 'Two-Gun Geek' plastered across the newsstands. ![]() Think again, as we take a long, grimy look at Peter Heslin, the Two-Gun Geek! I know, I know. But surely the word "geek" never made its way into the seedy underworld of bootlegging, gambling, and petty crime? The word "geek" has gone though many iterations in the past, from "wild man at the carnival who bites heads off live chickens" to "suave dot-com billionaire who buys and sells little people like us." But for most of its etymological life "geek" has held connotations that, if not wholly negative, surely fall somewhere in the ballpark of being correctly utilized by schoolyard bullies as they deliver indian burns to the kid wearing Superman Underoos.
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