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Thus it is that "Scud: The Disposable Assassin," an independent comic written and drawn by cartoonist Rob Schrab, is one of the latest comics to emerge from the comics underground into the glare of Hollywood's scrutiny. Creator Schrab attributes Scud's success to what he calls its multimedia appeal and its "surrealistically" funky style--both of which were probably factors in drawing Stone's attention in the first place...
...premise of the "Scud" series itself is typical of the comic: delightfully simple yet utterly absurd. In the hyper-violent, super-capitalistic universe of the future, a corporation called ScudCo manufactures "disposable assassins": three coins deposited in a vending machine will get you a robot designed to be the perfect killer, which will demolish your enemy and then self-destruct as soon as it's accomplished its mission (planned obsolescence, after all, is what makes consumer culture go). Our hero is a typical Scud robot assassin, bought by a middle manager who needs to get rid of a hideous mutant...
...emergency facilities of his local hospital. As long as she remains alive, he's got nothing to worry about. Unfortunately, the hospital fees will cost a bundle, and so Scud hits the streets to earn money the only way he knows how--by hiring himself out as an assassin...
...might be the exception to the rule. His power flows not from the consent of his people but from firing squads and torture chambers. He has ordered the death of tens of thousands and used cyanide, nerve gas and mustard gas against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Trained as an assassin--while a young man he took part in a 1959 attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister--he once ordered a hit on George Bush. He has tried to build atom bombs and, U.N. inspectors believe, he is working to amass a stock of nerve gas and germ weapons. Finally...
...Sturges and Zinneman voted for Bay of Baghdad, followed by the insertion of a puppet government headed by Al D'Amato. Besson was drunk on port; most of his suggestions were unprintable, even on the Web. But if anyone knows a really good assassin, Tariq Aziz asks that you give him a call at his hotel before he leaves town. Or leave a message with me, the Couch Potato. Good weekend...