Union Station
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Kansas City, 1933. Frank Nash is a petty criminal who has been pinched by the Feds and is being brought back into town by train. When FBI agent Reed Vetterli heads down to Union Station to meet Nash and his uniformed escort, he has no reason to suspect that there will be any action. Neither does Charles Thompson, a reporter sent down to the station just to see what the fuss is for. Little do they know that Frank's buddy, Vern Miller, is going to bust him out. Nash may not be a big time player, but he's still earned some loyalty. The resulting clash ends in a massacre, with no one knowing who pulled the trigger first - or even who pulled it at all. Rumor has it that Pretty Boy Floyd was on the scene, but no one knows for sure, and J. Edgar Hoover doesn't particularly care. He just wants Floyd's butt in an electric chair, and when Vetterli, Miller, and Thompson find themselves in the way of Hoover's justice, they can't duck for cover fast enough.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1929998694
ISBN13:9781929998692
Release Date:November 2003
Publisher:Oni Press
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 0.5" x 6.8"
Age Range:16 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 11 and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
You may want to know something about this event in history before comitting to this
Published by StrictlySequential (goodreads) , 6 years ago
This suffers from the intrinsic difficulty of dealing with a historical event that will never be known correctly since the actual facts couldn't be taken out of those involved while they lived. THAT DOES NOT EFFECT THE RATING.
The artist did not come close to drawing unique enough characters BUT he had his own intrinsic difficulty of them all being white men around the same age that dressed pretty much the same. He still could have done much better so he still takes blame.
THE SOLUTION:
A Dramitis Personae would tremendously helped distinguish the characters and would have also addressed the other problem I had with this ambitious (The effort is what really counts to me) project.
The equally-problematic flaw was how often the scenes drastically changed without enough clarity about where we were and why we were there. This also made the questions of "who?" amplify.
True Crime
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This is a very worthwhile read for anyone who is interested in the Depression era, particularly in gangsters of the period. The fact that it is a "graphic novel" may be distracting to some, but nevertheless, it is a well crafted story that tells the events of of the massacre at Kansas City's Union Station that allowed J. Edgar Hoover to gain the publicity and clout he needed to fully arm his G-men and be given a free hand in law enforcement from that day forward. FBI men even today will still swear that Pretty Boy Floyd was at the scene, despite a good amount of evidence to the contrary. IF one is to nitpick, the only failings of this book is that by creating fictional characters and putting some real people in places they were not (which the author Ande Parks admits in his notes), it undoes the very thing it seems to set out to do, which is do an authentic, factual retelling of the true story. Overall, though, very good.
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