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	Comedian (comics) - Wikipedia
		The Comedian is a central character in the classic comic book series Watchmen (by Alan Moore, published by DC Comics).
		The story of Watchmen starts with the aftermath of a murder in 1985: a man named Edward Blake was beaten mercilessly and thrown through the window of his apartment, falling several stories to his death.
		He became a member of The Minutemen, a prominent group of such heroes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Comedian_(comics) (763 words)

	The Comics Journal: Reviews
		Reviewing comics like this one, which are obviously a cut above the norm but hew closely to familiar, pulp-derived conventions, begins to seem like a waste of time.
		This just happens to be one of those comics in which the good guys are a tad more interesting than usual (the bad guys are almost always interesting, of course).
		The Minutemen operate outside the law, specializing in setting up victims of criminal wrongdoing with hard evidence of who did them wrong, along with a tasty firearm and one hundred untraceable bullets.
	www.tcj.com /3_online/w_review_bullets.html (986 words)

	Minutemen - Wikipedia
		Minutemen (militia), a generic term for militia in the American Revolutionary War
		A group of fictional superheroes in Watchmen comic series
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Minutemen (108 words)

	watchmeta
		Blake was the youngest of the Minutemen, the group of 1940's masked heroes, but left the group after an incident in which Sally Jupiter refused his affections, leading to his beating and attempted rape of her and his own subsequent beating at the hands of Hooded Justice, whom he himself secretly killed, years later.
		She remained in the group until 1946, when she was exposed as a lesbian and forced to leave due to the resultant scandal.
		The Minutemen disbanded in 1949, and, after being called to testify with other former members before HUAC in 1954, Hooded Justice abandoned his costumed identity and dropped out of sight.
	dark_mark.tripod.com /watchmeta.htm (3526 words)

	Ralf Hildebrandt: /~hildeb/watchmen/annotations/watchmen.appendix.shtml
		In 1946 she was expelled from the group when it was publicly revealed that she was a lesbian; two weeks later she and her lover were killed by an adversary seeking revenge.
		She was a member of the Minutemen; the Comedian was expelled from the group after attempting to rape her.
		Superhero comics continued for a while (the Flash existed, possibly as "Flash-Man") but dwindled in popularity due to the existence of real "superheroes." The '50s led to pirate titles dominating the market, led by EC.
	www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de /~hildeb/watchmen/annotations/watchmen.appendix.shtml (3967 words)

	Lateral Readings
		Comics is both a sequential and a simultaneous medium.
		Below are seven examples of simple or first-order lateral reading, constructed by moving from the rightmost panel on a lefthand page directly to the leftmost panel on the opposite page, disregarding the panels in between.
		At the Minutemen meeting, Sally is fending off the attentions of Edward Blake, the Comedian, who will shortly attempt to rape her.
	iat.ubalt.edu /moulthrop/hypertexts/wm/readings/lateral (1657 words)

	LP: The Case for Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The underground comics of the previous decade had helped demolish some of the barriers to more adult work, and the emergence of “direct market” comics shops opened a niche for small presses, many of which were doing this kind of work.
		Comics are not merely a collection of images, but a collection of images placed in deliberate — though not necessarily chronological — order.
		Comics are well suited to that role because of the inherent narrative properties of the medium.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=88370 (2760 words)

	SAVANT:: We Choose to Go to the Moon
		SAVANT is a weekly comics magazine with an activist bent, aimed at readers, retailers, and professionals of all stripes interested in the comics industry.
		Agent Graves was once a member of a secret group known as the Minutemen, who've had their ranks mowed down in recent years by the Trust, a Bilderburger-like organization that once employed them.
		I didn't know comics were like this." Even better is that one of them went out and bought the fourth volume, A FOREGONE TOMORROW, because she had to know what happened next.
	www.savantmag.com /extraupon.html (1622 words)

	Untitled Document
		This mirrors what happened to Blue Beetle, who was active in comics in the '40s and later in the '60s as a far more scientific character, with a different name.
		Of course, the commercial nature of comic books today means that the superhero must be in his monthly comic every month, and the reader must be able to relate to that world.
		WATCHMEN also proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that comics as a medium were capable of handling material, both in terms of subject and density of plot, which were previously regarded as the exclusive domain of prose novels.
	www.popimage.com /nov99/reviews/watchmen.html (2180 words)

	100 Bullets Preview (Xbox)
		The more readable comics are directly aimed at a completely literate and mature audience; similar to what Frank Miller did years ago with the Elecktra and Dark Knight mini novels.
		Snow has a chance encounter with Graves and the Minutemen and is given the equivalent of Wonka’s Golden Ticket; the chance to avenge the death of her mother with the infamous attaché filled with the super slugs.
		Cole is a former member of the Minutemen that was hypnotized by Graves and now has no idea that his job as an ice cream truck driver is not his true calling in life.
	previews.teamxbox.com /xbox/793/100-Bullets/p1 (733 words)

	Eventually Clever » Comics! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		We already know that some of the earlier beneficiaries of Graves’ gun-and-bullets CARE package were actually amnesiac members of the Minutemen, a freelance gang of internal enforcers for The Trust: a group of thirteen families who have run the USA since colonial times.
		The Minutemen exist to keep the peace between the Trust families (one of these families are the Medicis, which I think is a nice touch), and Graves is the commander.
		The resurgence of Graves, and the return of at least two of the Minutemen to active duty, have proven that.
	www.chirographum.com /weblog?p=830 (743 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Gina Lubrano -- When comics are no laughing matter
		Comic strips across the board have become edgier, more political, more likely to reflect the social issues of the day.
		That means the artists are walking a finer line than in the days when a comic strip could stick to a 'Peanuts'-sort of format and succeed.
		While strips are edited for taste, eliminating politics, religion and social issues from the comics pages probably would mean fewer comics, Lavin said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/op-ed/lubrano/20050509-9999-mz1e9lubrano.html (834 words)

	Je t'aime... moi non plus: Or: Love to hate you: the strange affair between French and American comics - PopMatters ...
		One comic got away though: by employing a roster of French writers and artists to locally produce content, France's Disney showcase Le Journal de Mickey survived the genocide and became a cultural icon.
		Thus, most French comics readers (and there were quite a lot of them then) were effectively shielded from all developments in American comics, yet grew up with Mickey, Donald, Picsou (Uncle Scrooge) and Dingo (Goofy).
		While the US comics industry was going through its period of extreme mainstream success, BD's were struggling to keep the attention of a new generation raised on computer games and to fend off the invasion of their local market by cheaper Japanese manga.
	www.popmatters.com /comics/features/040528-comicsinfrance.shtml (1180 words)

	Watchmen - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In 1986-1987, DC Comics released possibly the most ground breaking 12 issues of sequential graphic storytelling ever created.
		Comic Books: Superheroes as a comic genre died out in the early to mid-50's, with pirate comics replacing them.
		A lesbian, she was expelled from the Minutemen in 1946 and killed shortly thereafter.
	surbrook.devermore.net /adaptionscomic/watchmen/watchmenintro.html (1750 words)

	Brill Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		He fights with this monster in one of those great knock-down drag-out battles that those superhero comics of a different day did so well and yet his thought balloons are filled with doubts about his current situation.
		The fact that any type of tinkering with the superhero form is still done strictly of the style of an old Marvel comic is what worked a lot for me. It expresses a lot of ideas about that time in superhero comic book history, the major one being fondness, although that’s hardly the only one.
		In Comic Book Confidential Stan Lee said that the perceived positivity of Kennedy and his "Camelot" were a big inspiration when he, Kirby and others were putting together the Marvel universe.
	brillbuilding.blogspot.com (2269 words)

	Sequential Tart: Comic Reviews - Lisa Dansky (vol IV/iss 7/July 2001)
		All we know is that the Trust, a group of Mafia-like families, feel that they have defeated the Minutemen, a group of killers used by them to carry out their various power grabs through the years.
		This is a book that keeps you buying comics each month versus collecting the trades with each month’s dose of horror, intrigue, and downright sexy sleaziness a treat.
		There are few comic books that I have found my daughter enjoys as much as I do.
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/july01/rev_0701_comic_lisad.shtml (954 words)

	Arizona Daily Wildcat - UA students monitor Minutemen - Monday, May 2, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		"I think what the Minutemen are doing is really scary because they're people that are driven by fear," said Karen Lutrick, a Mexican American studies graduate student who served as a legal observer four separate times in April.
		Inspired by early 17th- and 18th-century American minutemen groups, which helped defend U.S. colonies, Simcox, a former Los Angeles schoolteacher, said he was motivated to monitor the border after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
		I really just wanted to experience firsthand what it is the Minutemen are feeling and how hard they're willing to go to exhibit how frustrated they are with the immigration system.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/98/147/01_6.html (1409 words)

	Sports: UMass hands 'Noles third consecutive loss
		The Minutemen (5-3) secured the winby making 9 of 10 free throws in the final minute.
		And the Seminoles gave the Minutemen a scare midway through the second half.
		Mack gave the Minutemen a big boost after a timeout with a three-pointer and a fastbreak layup during the run.
	www.sptimes.com /News/121999/news_pf/Sports/UMass_hands__Noles_th.shtml (537 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The omission of the "American Way" portion of the credo may be due in part to a growing awareness of and aversion to comic book jingoism, but it also has associations particular to this story: the KC Justice League has grown beyond its nationalistic roots as the Justice League of America.
		Like the Americommando and the Minutemen, they are much more heavily armed and vicious than their 1940s predecessors (the original Americommando, for instance, usually only carried a whip).
		Her presence here is fitting given her father's role as the leading sci-fi hero of Silver Age DC comics; he was even a recurring ally and honourary member of the original Justice League of America.
	www.greatkrypton.com /kc/issues/text/mcquaid_kc2_annotations.txt (18066 words)

	The Harvard Crimson Online :: Sports
		With only a few minutes left in the last period yesterday against Massachusetts, the Harvard men's lacrosse team still hoped that seven goals would be enough.
		But those seven goals weren't enough as the Crimson (4-7, 1-4 Ivy) dropped the contest, 8-7, in overtime after a fourth-quarter rally to steal a lead that Massachusetts (7-2) had held for the entire game.
		The Minutemen lived up to their nickname, however, as they regrouped in the last three minutes of the game and put together two equalizing goals.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=174926 (403 words)

	DenverPost.com - LIFESTYLES
		This is the closest I might ever come to agreeing with the Colorado Minutemen, an offshoot of the vigilantes who like to strap on handguns and play Border Patrol.
		The Minutemen protested in front of the main branch Monday to draw attention to the books, which the library already had removed for examination a week earlier.
		So here's where I agree with Copley and his Minutemen: Of the four fotonovelas in his possession, two were raunchy.
	www.denverpost.com /lifestyles/ci_2931126 (599 words)

	MyWestTexas.com - Local News - 02/21/2005 - 'Minutemen' to patrol Arizona border to curb illegal immigration crossings
		The Minutemen "clearly have every reason to be upset with the federal government for abandoning them," said National Border Patrol Council president T.J. Bonner, no relation to the commissioner.
		But "if anything goes wrong, God forbid, someone does injure an agent, this government is going to be turning both barrels on them and come after them with a vengeance," he said.
		Gilchrist said the Minutemen are under strict orders to merely identify and follow illegal border crossers and alert federal agents.
	www.mywesttexas.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14002139&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=547111&rfi=6 (792 words)

	Minutemen Who's Who listings!
		The Minutemen are a group of super heroes based on J Street, who run the multiversal comics wholesaler, Minuteman Comics.
		Recent events have seen the Minutemen working a lot closer with the Pantheon and has seen the beginnings of a blurring in the distinction between the two, once hostile teams of super heroes.
		However, due to the strains that were quite evident when the Minutemen settled on J Street between the Minutemen themselves and the Pantheon, he still harbors some resentment towards the Pantheon and its members.
	www.the-pantheon.net /neb/omni/minute.html (3414 words)

	Magic City Morning Star: A Lawn Chair, A Cell Phone and a Pair of Binoculars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Minutemen, with their love of America, were able to do what hundreds of thousands of citizens couldn't - force an open recognition and discussion of the topic.
		Despite the dismissive attitude of the President and his appointed DHS officials who insisted that the Minutemen should stay home and "leave immigration enforcement to trained law enforcement officers," it's clear that the Minutemen played a critical role in forcing official attention to the most serious security issue in America.
		The Minutemen have demonstrated that it can be done with a lawn chair, a cell phone and a pair of binoculars; they had the will that politicians lack.
	magic-city-news.com /article_3740.shtml (892 words)

	100 Bullets #26 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		Branch tells a Prostitute about the relationship between the Trust, the Minutemen, and the various characters we’ve met in the first 25 issues.
		The problem is that he doesn’t reveal very much except that the Minutemen are there to keep the families in the Trust from killing each other, Graves refused to work with the Trust on a new crime of the millenium, Shepherd is a shadowy figure, and Dizzy is going to have a future pivotal role.
		Paul Pope’s rendition of Benito Medici and Joe Jusko’s of Megan Dietrich are nice but there is no explanation as to who they are and no plot development in their characterization.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/99460657612713.htm (492 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Activists warn Minutemen they will be watched
		The advocates have called on the city to officially "disinvite" the Minutemen, but city leaders say that is unlikely.
		The mayor has said he does not see the need to pass an official resolution on the subject, and City Councilman Adrian Garcia said it would be hard to promote such a measure without mayoral support.
		The Minutemen in Texas originated out of a series of meetings this year in Goliad County, where landowners have become alarmed by the illegal immigrants being smuggled along the area's rural roads.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3258963 (855 words)

	Brill Building: Meme me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I was also beginning my love of music by discovering one punk rock band and then the band that influenced them and then the band that influenced them and so on.
		Pretty soon I was the only middle school student in Moorpark, CA that knew who the Minutemen and Husker Du was.
		Comics, listening to hip-hop, watching movies in revival theaters, playing guitar and meditating (that’s how I try to relax).
	brillbuilding.blogspot.com /2005/08/meme-me.html (569 words)

	TheFourthRail.com - Snap Judgments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		An appropriate place to finally reveal the nature of the Trust and the Minutemen, to provide the "secret origin" of the book, as it were.
		The notion of criminals sharing their own urban legends and stories is one that I like, and by using a framing device of what happens after a robbery gone bad, Azzarello manages to include an excuse for some modern-day crime action along with a story that is mostly driven by politics and more subtle crime.
		I have to say, though, that I was much more interested in the tale of the forging of the Trust and the beginning of the Minutemen than the story that took up the bulk of the issue, the modern-day tale of crooks that pulled a heist.
	www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/snapjudgments/060704/100bullets50.shtml (589 words)

	100 Bullets - PopMatters Comic Book Review
		The crime comic is fast becoming the hip & edgy alternative in the universe of mainstream American comics.
		The Minutemen are obviously in conflict with another clandestine group, although by the close of the second trade paperback, its identity is still not made clear.
		It is certainly not the second coming of crime comics, but it does contain many qualities that most of mainstream American comics are lacking.
	www.popmatters.com /comics/100-bullets.shtml (866 words)

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