Back in June we reported that director M. Shawn Crahan (Slipknot) would be bringing Joe Casey and Chris Burnham’s blood-soaked graphic novel, Officer Downe, to the big screen. Unfortunately, at the time, there were no plans for distribution but it would seem that has changed as Magnolia’s Magnet Releasing imprint has scooped up the rights […]
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It’s a good time to be a comic book fan. While mainstream publishers DC and Marvel continue to battle it out for box office supremacy, lesser known titles are finding their own niche channels to celluloid glory…or, in the case of Joe Casey and Chris Burnham’s Officer Downe, gory. We reviewed the Officer Downe graphic […]
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If Chuck Norris had a comic book equivalent… it’d probably be a comic book version of Chuck Norris. However, if he had an apprentice in the Art of Badassery that person would most likely resemble Luthor Strode. Who is Luthor Strode? Strode is the main character in a new (limited) comic series called The Strange […]
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Printed Perversions: Officer Downe (2010)
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If Axe Cop is meant as a lighthearted, cop-themed action tale that appeal towards all kids (young and old) in the vein of Last Action Hero or Police Academy, then Joe Casey and Chris Burnham’s 2010 one-shot, Officer Downe: Tough Sh*t is an appropriately more adult-oriented spin on the same theme… you know, the kind […]
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After hearing Jason Eisener discuss interest in the film during our previous interview I made it my mission to track down a copy of Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky to see if the film really lived up to the hype I had read. I’m happy to say that the truth wasn’t exaggerated. Based on a […]
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This is one interview that has been a long time coming, but let me just say that it has been well worth the wait. Jason Eisener and I first spoke online last year while he was in the midst of post-production of a little film called Hobo with a Shotgun (you might have heard of […]