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Pretty Baby Machine #1

Friday, May 9th, 2008 – running time 03:33
We're going back to 1930's Chicago for Josh's Pick of the Week.

In a sea of big releases, only one book really stood out for Josh's Pick of the Week, and it was the noir, gangster historical fiction of Pretty Baby Machine #1, based on the characters Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and Machine Gun Kelly. And they're going up against Al Capone. How could he not like this?

Highlights
Joe Kennedy ( 0:51, 0:51 ) mobsters ( 0:45, 1:28, 0:45, 1:28 ) stylized ( 2:11, 2:11 ) Pretty boy Floyd ( 0:42, 1:52, 0:42, 1:52 ) Joe Kennedy ( 0:51, 0:51 ) mobsters ( 0:45, 1:28, 0:45, 1:28 ) stylized ( 2:11, 2:11 ) Pretty boy Floyd ( 0:42, 1:52, 0:42, 1:52 )

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" It's Josh -- drive in what many for the data -- the little version of the larger comic book show. I've -- boy in today's Friday. Friday it means the only time particularly because I'm sitting here so it might hit that thing even though up analogies and now it. But you know common complaint about that earlier select and I haircut too. Little short. Well short little maybe it will native whether that -- And -- pick this week I just I can't get the point pretty big machine number one by. Clark western Cody can't really say that because I -- these names for whatever reason. Maybe there's too many syllables. Pretty boy Floyd baby face Nelson and machine gun Kelly are mobsters real monsters they actually existed. In the thirties Chicago working and and Al Capone. Joe Kennedy is in this book I don't know how much of Israel and I don't care most of -- rooted in fact in history and real places. I love that the research on the page. The passion is on the page it's already there and I've been burned by a mobster books in the past that things that that weren't very goods like I didn't expect a likeness. But I did like quite -- and I think we its its networks. And they all decided Al Capone has gone too far they're it'd taken down. That's not what is -- what really happened now owns I don't know how real this is what. But I just had so much fun this and in you know it's like mobsters. Are so. Interesting when done well Ian has been done a million times you know every movie out there. In the sopranos pretty much needed the ground but when done well there's still something there that you take that history aspect and you put it back thirty years you watch how. People supposedly might have been at that time out of speaking out -- acting. And it's fascinating. You know it's all narrated by pretty boy Floyd as opposed to a cold sort of detached. Narrator and so. Did you -- inside that story and art is. Really really nice incredibly appropriate sort of reminds me -- road to -- or torso. It's black and white it is almost photo realistic but still stylized. It just black and white does not -- great in this book and it. Clothing is there in the buildings there at that cars and everything just is historically. Accurate or at least seems to be you know put you rate there in the place and decide that it's really nice looking art some great layouts and great pages you know that. There's there's sixty gains in the news you know the guys -- kind of fall. Call the killers you know they're all very calm density. You know and and in and it just got that that air about them that that's kind of scary but also sort of soothing and it's. It was a really good book and I became front anywhere from its I was really really excited to pick it up as excited find its three issues so if you want it you should go read it -- you want to get what you -- for a little bitter -- the -- it's. I've very much recommended it to its start I hope we keep going this way and let you know how the next one goes problem. So this is easily the best thing that are this week it was the most favorite book that I that night. He stole anything that was like all of this is this is something different this is something -- get excited about so you have a question you said contact that -- dot com. Or you can get over two revision three dot com slash and what to watch some more of the videos we've got going on and thank you museum are."

" It's Josh -- drive in what many for the data -- the little version of the larger comic book show. I've -- boy in today's Friday. Friday it means the only time particularly because I'm sitting here so it might hit that thing even though up analogies and now it. But you know common complaint about that earlier select and I haircut too. Little short. Well short little maybe it will native whether that -- And -- pick this week I just I can't get the point pretty big machine number one by. Clark western Cody can't really say that because I -- these names for whatever reason. Maybe there's too many syllables. Pretty boy Floyd baby face Nelson and machine gun Kelly are mobsters real monsters they actually existed. In the thirties Chicago working and and Al Capone. Joe Kennedy is in this book I don't know how much of Israel and I don't care most of -- rooted in fact in history and real places. I love that the research on the page. The passion is on the page it's already there and I've been burned by a mobster books in the past that things that that weren't very goods like I didn't expect a likeness. But I did like quite -- and I think we its its networks. And they all decided Al Capone has gone too far they're it'd taken down. That's not what is -- what really happened now owns I don't know how real this is what. But I just had so much fun this and in you know it's like mobsters. Are so. Interesting when done well Ian has been done a million times you know every movie out there. In the sopranos pretty much needed the ground but when done well there's still something there that you take that history aspect and you put it back thirty years you watch how. People supposedly might have been at that time out of speaking out -- acting. And it's fascinating. You know it's all narrated by pretty boy Floyd as opposed to a cold sort of detached. Narrator and so. Did you -- inside that story and art is. Really really nice incredibly appropriate sort of reminds me -- road to -- or torso. It's black and white it is almost photo realistic but still stylized. It just black and white does not -- great in this book and it. Clothing is there in the buildings there at that cars and everything just is historically. Accurate or at least seems to be you know put you rate there in the place and decide that it's really nice looking art some great layouts and great pages you know that. There's there's sixty gains in the news you know the guys -- kind of fall. Call the killers you know they're all very calm density. You know and and in and it just got that that air about them that that's kind of scary but also sort of soothing and it's. It was a really good book and I became front anywhere from its I was really really excited to pick it up as excited find its three issues so if you want it you should go read it -- you want to get what you -- for a little bitter -- the -- it's. I've very much recommended it to its start I hope we keep going this way and let you know how the next one goes problem. So this is easily the best thing that are this week it was the most favorite book that I that night. He stole anything that was like all of this is this is something different this is something -- get excited about so you have a question you said contact that -- dot com. Or you can get over two revision three dot com slash and what to watch some more of the videos we've got going on and thank you museum are."