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Hey! It's A Movie Trailer Online! A Movie Trailer...FROM HELL!!!
AAAHHHHH!!!! Hey, Dave here, just thought I'd let you all know that the fine folks at Apple have posted a fantastic, beautiful looking trailer for everyone's favorite upcoming Hughes Brothers Johnny Depp vehicle, FROM HELL.
That's a great title for a movie. How I like a great title. I'm still pissed off that they renamed EATERS OF THE DEAD to a crappy title like THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR. How could you pass up a great title like EATERS OF THE DEAD? Man, that title alone was going to get me in the theatre. Instead, I watched THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR when it hit HBO. Sad world we live in.
Okay, so I'm mostly over that, and besides, there's a cool trailer for you to see...all kids love Johnny Depp, after all. You of course will need QuickTime, and then you will need the ability to click the link below. Good luck.
CLICK ME TO SEE A TRAILER FROM HELL!
Dave Alvarado, El Cosmico
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I can't believe!!!!! FIRST! :)
Just saw PoA here in brazil and an entertaining movie! Go, go Burton! -
Nothing really to say. The subject title says all I need to say. I can't wait to see it.
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i was just gonna say the same thing.
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I was at the theater recently seeing Planet of the Apes when a trailer came up that blew me away. It was for a new film with Johnny Depp called From Hell. It's the new film from the Hughes brothers (Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes). The other masters of hood films they have brought us classics like Menace II Society and Dead Presidents not to the mention out standing documentary American Pimp. (Oh and Scratch which AICN posted a review of a while back. I have not seen it so I can't say if it was good or not but I bet it was) Based on the comic book series by Alan Moore III and Eddie Campbell II and adapted to the screen by Terry Hayes (Mad Max 2 and Mad Max 3) and Rafael Yglesias (Les Mis
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most of the above (if this is posted right) is from an E-mail I sent Harry awhile back before I Knew They were all over it. The name of the film never pulled me in so I did not notice the post on it... Yeah I know... really stupid. Anyway that's why it sounds a little like some of the other things that have been said and not very personal Peace.
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Why must there be like 2 guys with big cheesy DJ voices doing 98% of all movie trailers? Most trailers completely suck for current films, way too much talking and explaining by an over-voice, no scenes longer than 1 or 2 seconds, but throwing in the same damn annoying fat white guy voice just makes it worse.
Anyway, good trailer until Mr. Voice starts intoning in his over-solemn fashion, and there are several needless film speed tricks with panning shots, but fortunately not too much narration, so it wasn't bad.
Knowing about the actual victims of JtR doesn't help, since they were mostly 40's and older, fat, rather unattractive tooth-missing street whores, so seeing the luscious young things in the trailer is an immediate "yeah, right". But knowing anything about the subject matter is a bad thing in terms of almost all film enjoyment, it seems.
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Aug 03, 2001 7:11:31 PM CDT
Up beat news on the Horror Genre?! Holy fish licking ground hogs
by neosamurai85
It just hit me that this is good news... about Horror...It's been awhile. I'm feeling a little better but even this can't fully cure me. but any way I'm very happy to hear good news. and while on the Topic has anybody herd anything more about house of a 1000 corpses (forgive me if I got the name wrong)? I had know plans to see it but I was still hoping it would happen. Peace.
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This film can't get here soon enough. The eventual TalkBack should be interesting and quite heated...people will be lining up on opening weekend for very different reasons. You know there will be plenty of fans of the graphic novel salivating like Pavlov's Dogs at the chance to shit all over this film.
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This may be a SPOILER but probably not. Did anyone notice that there's a quick shot of the elephant man? he's in a room with a bunch of people and two men are taking his clothes off. should be a badass movie.
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YUP... If you want to get a good look at him, and you may not, there was a pic posted awhile back on AICN. I think it was the one that says "Adults only No one onder 18" (or somthing like that) Cuz one of the other pics had some nudeity in it. The E-man Really looks creepy in this! I can't Wait to see it! Peace.
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Aug 03, 2001 8:46:40 PM CDT
If you HAVE NOT READ the Graphic Novel this is based on.
by foreskin_jones
Then I seriously advise you not to go by this trailer frame by frame because the "Identity" of Jack The Ripper is Revealed in this trailer. I don't know why a studio will cut a trailer in such an irresponsible manner in this day and age of Quicktime were movie geeks everywhere love seeing every scene of the trailer.
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I saw the trailer a few days ago when I went to see "Planet of the Apes," and I groaned when I saw the masonic symbolism. I really HOPE this is just a red herring and that the Ripper murders won't be pinned on the masons. I'm not one, but my father is and my grandfather was, and I know first hand that Freemasonry isn't a bloodthirsty satanic cult. Here's keeping my fingers crossed as I look for a brother from the East. Or West. Or something like that.
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Aug 03, 2001 9:30:00 PM CDT
good grief - Depp sounds like Davey Jones from the Monkees
by froggy_rocks
it's all a bit too SLEEPY HOLLOW for my liking. Not that I didn't love SLEEPY HOLLOW, but I felt this looked like 'Ichabod goes Seven'. Not happy, Jan.
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Okay, if you guys wanna go in completely fresh, don't read any further.
I just finished the graphic novel, which was REALLY good. As far as revealing the identity of the killer, the book is not a "whodunit." you know who is killing the hookers the entire time, and many of the chapters show the killings in graphic detail, including who is involved and the motivation, etc.
And to the person who was mad at the masonic symbolism, sorry to break it to you, but at least in the novel, the masons were involved, and are very effectively demonized. They are indeed the "bad guys," at least in the book.
If they stick to the ideas and themes that were in the book, this could be a kick-ass movie. The graphic novel was one of the darkest, most disturbing things I've ever read, and if they don't bitch out and make this a cheesy mystery, it could be awesome. -
...is gonna suck. Hard. The book was smartly told from the perspective of Jack The Ripper. Abberline, though certainly a central character, took a back seat to Gull. I certainly hope they haven't turned this into a Scooby-Doo version of the comic, but from looking at the trailer, it seems my hopes are in vain.
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The comic, From Hell, tells you exactly who Alan Moore thinks the Ripper is after about the second page! It's not about who the Ripper is or isn't, it's more about why and how. It's not a state secret, or a big revelation. The film trailer told me nothing that I did not already know. And the Mason bit isn't terribly satanic or anything. How the Ripper reacts to the Masons is what it's about-a singular person's view on Masonic rituals and guideline. Remember, there are fanatics in every cause.
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Bastards not giving credit where credit is due... only saying that it's based on a graphic novel by Kitchensink Press and not the two men responsible for it, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons... they do it for the Batman and Superman shows! Idiots! Do they not know how evil and vicious Moore can get?!
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Wait, scratch that. This looks like a movie that could theoretically be a decent trashy thriller with a slick veneer -- but as an *adaptation*, my god does it look like a hunk of shit. Let me see if I can make a clunky analogy. Remember that feminist take on the Arthurian legend, "The Mists of Avalon", that ran on TNT recently? You know, where the whole point was to relive the legend of Camelot from the perspective of the women? Imagine if the producers had gone through all the trouble to acquire the rights to that book...only to make a conventional "Excalibur" knock-off focusing on the men as usual. See how that'd be fucking stupid? This movie is similarly fucking stupid in that it appears to have almost nothing in common with its source material. Apparently the Hughes brothers just liked the title "From Hell". Christ, they've made a whydunit into a whodunit. They've paved over gritty realism with a glossy filmmaking style and prettified whores. They've changed the lead character of the story from Jack the Ripper himself into the investigator Abberline (while simultaneously merging Abberline with the charlatan psychic who plays a role in the latter half of the graphic novel). Please, don't try and tell me I'm a mean ol' sourpuss for damning this movie before having seen it. From the preview alone, it's clear that it's already betrayed everything that was unique about Moore's work, and for that, I give it...the finger. Techno horror music? Jesus.
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Yeah, I know that guy. He already did the trailer for The 13th Warrior, you know, where he tried to convince us that Banderas was performing the sequel to Breakdance and Smurf.
I sure would like to see this guy at work :
"Hey ! Let's put some typical XIX Century techno music like The Queen Victoria Dub Brothers. You know how this stupid audience is scared by classical music. They run out of the theaters in huge waves of panic when they here this shit."
"Oh, God ! I got a crazy idea ! What about a bunch of Matrix-like accelerations with some freeze-frames. I know a guy in Polynesia who never saw such fantastic effects on screen. It's too bad we don't have a shot of Johnny Depp kickboxing Jack the Ripper's ass."
"Oh I feel such a genious today. OK! OK! Let me do the voice-over, something like : He was the best cop this city ever had ! They tried to murder his fianc -
just watched the trailer and im sure its pete postlethwaite who says the line"people will say i gave birth to the 20th century"
dose that mean hes playing jack the ripper????dose anyone else think it sounds like him? -
To Paddington & other fans of the graphic novel that 'From Hell' is taken from; 'From Hel'l was made by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbel. Campbell is an Australian artist with a unique and evocative style. Check out his own series 'Bacchus' if you want a treat.
Moore & Gibbons did 'Watchmen' together.
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Can someone give me a link for this direct, or tell me how to get one? Please!!
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Aug 04, 2001 7:27:50 AM CDT
I saw 30 blurry seconds of the trailer for Episode II and I can
by squarepusher
WTF? After reading the J&SBSB review/talkback and then seeing the film at a preview screening, I think the whole anti-shit-talkers is pretty on target. I simply cannot believe that some of you are predicting what the movie is like only from the trailer. You fucking dolts*! If you are right, it will be a coincidence- I assure you.
Nearly every trailer cut together from random "actiony" scenes from the movie totally sucks. The convention of cutting together dialogue that doesn't even take place in the same scene crerates false impressions which you all think indicate something about the actual final cut. It doesn't! The only trailers that make an impression on me are teaser-ish trailers which contain no scenes from the movie or an edited continuous sequence (like the spidey one- unless they shot the whole thing just for the trailer).
Now, I'll bet you all expected me to pass judgement on the film by now. BUT I RESERVE THAT FOR AFTER I SEE IT. Sure, I can say things like: Heather Graham as a prostitute, way to strech. But if I think the movie is going to blow hard, it's not the trailer that's going to make me think so. If you read the GRAPHIC NOVEL and you think the movie missed the point, well I suppose you're as psychic as Depp... You all act like you've seen the movie already! I can't get over it! You stuffy, critical, cynical bastards! Try to enjoy life for once!
OK, OK... I can smell the "if it wasn't for talkbackers this site wouldn't exist" and "criticism is an intellectual pursuit and not just ego-driven masturbation" arguments coming. I agree. I'm talking back right now, ya jackass! I'm not damning the process in and of itself. I'm just pissed at know-it-none's who talk like they've been privy to every detail of production since it began. Productive discussion is not engendered by dogmatic, unsupported declarations. We need to have a dialogue here - as opposed to 50 jerks vying for the most convincing bullshit award. I'd accept "The trailer sucked" as a valid criticism of the content we all saw. I wasn't too impressed by it either. But "the movie sucks" is just BS. Save it.
*Yeah, I mean it too. I hate you.
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Well, my worst fears have been
confirmed. Everything they used to make the trailer more appealing to younger auds, the voice-over guy, the sped-up pans, the techno music and the young, good-looking whores-told me exactly how the Hughes fucked this one up. It looks like a watch-at-3AM-on cable-because-you're-trying-to-fall-asleep flick for sure. I mean, fer chrissakes, why do it at ALL if you're gonna completely butcher it? There was a modicum of hope left for me at the end where Gull intones, sinisterly, "One Day, people will look back, and say that I gave birth to the 20th century", a line that was at least IN the graphic novel, and was promptly RUINED by "You won't see the 20th Century" HOW HORRIBLE! Let's hope that this tanks at the Box Office and is quickly forgotten. It looks wretched.
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In the ultimate overture to young audiences, here's Heather Graham with her cockeyed "I know something you don't know" smile. I mean, that's great for an Austin Powers movie, but the girl is "one-note" defined. Always exactly the same.
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But it would take some serious adaptation, which would be fine 'cause I alternately loved and was seriously annoyed by the comic. Weren't the Wachowski brothers attached to a version at one point? *** At any rate, having not read 'From Hell', I guess I'll have the benefit of going into this one fresh, but I hope it's not as shitty as y'all are making it out to be.
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It could be a fantastic adaptation of a fantastic graphic novel. It's certainly a braver move for the studio to put their weight behind a movie that originated in the comic medium yet doesn't have the "household name" quality of Spidey or the X-men than just rely on the recognition factor alone to draw the crowds. I'll certainly be there on opening day to give this a shot (now if I can only get the trailer to play... something about me not having Quicktime 5 installed, even though I do???). Oh, and the previous poster is spot on - a V For Vendetta movie would be a really challenging, thought provoking and generally stunning thing. Probably wouldn't set the box offices alight or anything, but since we're playing Fantasy Movie Maker here, who cares about money? :)
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its a whydunnit. or in the case of the filmakers a whydidtheybotherdoingit.
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The first thing I thought of when I saw the trailer was 'Gaillo', that exactly what it looks like, a good old fashioned Italian stalking killer flick. Anyone expecting the Hughes Bros or any filmmaker to be able to live up to the comic is a fool, and I never expected From Hell the film to be anywhere near From Hell the comic. Its a shame they have to have a connection between the two, since its more than likely the Hughes Bros and the screenplay writers just used the comic as a skeletal work to start from. Just watch the film as a horror-killer-detective film and judge it as that, nothing more, nothing less.
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Don't you mean Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. Unless this was of course a hybrid movie featuring the Watchmen then it has nothing to do with Dave Gibbons. Hey Cormorant you know what the saddest part is about what you said about Abberline being spliced with another character? that Abberline actually existed, Christ have these people no respect for history. And yes I'm aware that the identity of the Ripper is revealed early in the story but there are a lot of people some of them visit this page that have not read From Hell yet. I think it was an asinine decision by the person who cut the trailer. That's just my opinion of course.
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It seems like he stated what I did way before I even posted it. Sorry man. That's what I get for just scrolling through the Talkbacks.
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I started laughing and opened it, expecting to have Comfort Girl teach me some new obscene phrases as she verbally assaulted Bowman for commenting on her name and her willingness to curse excessively. Damn, you faked me out Foreskin_Jones!____And just so this is not completely off topic, I look forward to From Hell as it stars Depp. I have never read the book but it sounds like I may enjoy the movie more due to this lack. In very few cases is the movie better than the book, so I do not know why people still complain about it so vehemently. Actually, I wonder if I read the book and picture Depp as I read, will I get the best effect?____A Bookwormish Bee
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MUAHAHAHAHA!
Well I'm not sure you might be able to picture Depp as Aberline Huneybee. If you do decide to read From Hell you will find out that it's illustrated and that Detective Abberline (The role Depp's playing) is a rather portly fellow. So he's more Oliver Platt than Johnny Depp unless of course you also like Oliver Platt then that's fine. I reccomend you read it though it is actually a very good story and I guess if you approach the movie with an open mind after you read the Graphic Novel then you should be alright. -
The Hughes Brothers doing a jack
the ripper film? That sounds about
as intriguing as a nun impersonating a mime. Maybe when
2pac punched the other brother out
it left both of them with severe brain damage. Johnny Depp's a bad ass but cmon dog, first sleepy hollow, then the astronauts wife, and now this.Who's gonna narrate this film Robert Stack?? This is ridiculous. These guys haven't made a decent film since their first, and aside from the cinematography, that film lacked originality. Dead Prez? Cmon
where did they shoot the Vietnam sequences, in their backyard? That shit was fuckin horrible. And don't get me started on their "We're so cool we can make a bland documentary about pimps talkin street slang so we can impress all the geeky white suburban hip hoppers while simulataneously shocking the rest of white America
with a gritty and mundane look at
life on the streets" American Pimp. You wanna see a real doc
about pimps check out "Pimps Up Ho's Down."
Is O dog in this movie?
"Break YO self Jack!!! Give me that god damn knife"!! nuff said.
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The trailer was exceptionally well put together; the marketing is good, at very least. As for the movie, I'm confident Depp will do a brilliant job with this one. As far as it looking like Sleepy Hollow, duh. Both are exceptionally dark horror movies, featuring mysterious, murderous villians. Depp's performance doesn't seem at all like in S.H. His Ichabod was excentric and squeamish.
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Yes... me messed up... it was Eddie Cambell and not Dave Gibbons. Mr. Cambell, if you are reading this, my most sincere apologies... geeze, talk about being hypocritical, I was talking about the film company giving credit where credit is due, then I give the wrong artist's name! *hangs his comic geek head in shame*
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I'll be honest: She's not the most brilliant actress to ever come down the pike (Julianne Moore falls in that group), but she's far from horrible. Barring her good looks, I genuinely enjoy watching her. Her personality is stripped of all the pretentious qualities that bog down so many actresses today, like J. Lo and Julia Roberts. There's a sweetness to her that I admire, a sense that no matter how goofy the movie is, she's enjoying herself. Hell, she's what saved Say It Isn't So from being unwatchable. The kindness, the affection shined through and made it tolerable. I think if maybe she dug a little deeper into her roles, preparation-wise, and chose better movies(more Boogie Nights and Bowfingers;less Committeds and Say It Isn't So's), she could be extremely good. My advice: Team back up with P.T. Anderson and start over from scratch, building up her reputation again.
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From the trailer, seems
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All of you!!! Way to rip something by just seeing a couple minute clip. The fact that movie trailers are subject to such scrutiny by internet talkbakers is a shame.
I hope they NEVER make another movie based on a comic book because the SuperGeeks can't handle it. You just can't. Nothing is good enough. And anyone that insists on calling comic books "graphic novels" should be severely flogged. -
Aug 05, 2001 2:27:08 PM CDT
"Collagen in his Lips, Sucking on Ponch from CHIPs, Turd covered
by foreskin_jones
So how many of you nice folks have read the GRAPHIC NOVEL , From Hell?
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And, well, I'm worried. Is it valid to be worried after seeing two minutes of trailer? Dunno; here's why the trailer bugged me and you can decide for yourself.
Most important: the already mentioned 20th century line. It's a very very important line in the graphic novel. It is /not/ followed by Abberline saying "You won't live to see the 20th century." That line is cheesy studio dialogue. Maybe it's typical of the movie, maybe it isn't, but it's a really crappy line.
Secondary: Abberline recast as someone with visions. Well... could work within the context of the movie, could not. I figure, yes, you have to condense something as large as From Hell in order to get it into two hours. So who knows? But if it moves the focus of the movie onto Abberline figuring out the killer, well, that's not true to the book.
Third: no shots of Hawksmoor churches. Simply unacceptable. Worst trailer ever!
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If the following dialogue was used.
The Ripper- One Day, people will look back, and say that I gave birth to Heather Graham's baby.
Abberline- You won't live to TOUCH Heather Graham.
Well I admit I'm not really liking the trailer. But as a fan of the story I will approach the movie with an open mind just as I do with most Adaptions, Comic related or otherwise. I do feel like they are taking a few too many liberties though in giving Abberline psychic powers, as I stated before the character is based on a Real Person and it is offensive that they are just butchering History like that. -
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This trailer looks naaaaasty. At first my hopes were high because the Huges are a talented bunch but when I read about all the changes they made my hope whent right down the drain. First of all the scope of the story doesn
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...but I will probably be disappointed. I was so excited when I saw the sets and preparation, and heard about all the supposed "authenticity" in the corpses and murder scenes, but this trailer shows that they've screwed that up already (where Polly Nichols is lying, and the way Mary Kelly's bed is facing).
It does have a very authentic feel about the sets and costumes (for once), I'm just soooo farking sick of the "the Masons made me do it" angle.
I figured the blonde was Annie Crook, but then who was the young long, straight dark haired girl?
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http://a544.g.akamai.net/5/544/51/eff8de94cd120d/1a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177dec6493f96bda47a60e73df4b/from_hell_480_sv3.mov
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When the headline read that this was the movie trailer from hell, I thought it would be for "Glitter". I guess I misunderstood.
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i mean, i thought i missed part of the title when i saw the trailer in the theatre. it just feels wrong, like there should be some sort of noun before "from hell", or that it's part of a phrase that's missing or something. i dunno, it just bugs me...
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johnny depp alone could carry this movie, but he doesnt have to because it looks cool as shit. all you damn idiots have to sit there and cry about how the title isnt what you would have named it or the music didnt fit the film so fucking what!! i wouldnt doubt that the music in the trailer isnt even in the movie. all you little cyber geeks are so busy bitching about how its not true to the comic probably dont know that it actually happened!!
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Aug 07, 2001 9:53:00 PM CDT
Man, they really butchered the comic. (Get it, butchered? Har-ha
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