Opening Fire Painting

This is a fairy tale of blood and bullets. It is the story of two women and three men who cannot die. Mostly. Their names are Andy, Nicky, Joe, Booker, and Nile. It is a story about time, and age, and ages, and about friendship, and love, and regret. Joe: You are a CHILD. An INFANT, and your MOCKING is thus INFANTILE. That man is NOT my “boyfriend.” That man is MORE to me than you can DREAM in your simpering, pathetic LIFE. That man is the STARS in my sky, and the SUN that lights MY days. That man is the MOON when I am lost in DARKNESS, and WARMTH when I shiver in COLD. I LOVE that man beyond MEASURE and REASON. His kiss still THRILLS me, even after a MILLENNIUM since I first TASTED him. His BODY, to this DAY, awakens a PASSION you will NEVER know. His HEART overflows with a kindness of which this world is NOT worthy. His very thoughts make MUSIC of the MUNDANE. He is not my “boyfriend.” He is not my “lover,” nor is he my partner.” He is ALL and MORE. He is my EVERYTHING. Nicky: You incurable romantic. Andy: Gendarmes are DEFINITELY on the way. Nile: No shit, and fire and ambulance and maybe the goddamn army. Andy: Yeah, but it’s the FRENCH army, Nile. We can TAKE ‘em. Booker: Hey! It might’ve been almost two hundred years ago, but I WAS French army! Andy: I know, Book… but we keep you around ANYWAY… Andy: Here’s something ELSE I’ve learned. Any fall LONG enough that you can THINK about the fact that you’re STILL FALLING….is, by definition, TOO far. Nile: Holy shit. HOLY SHIT -- Andy, this is a RODIN! This is honest-to-God Rodin! Andy: Yeah, sounds RIGHT. Auguste something? Think that was his name… Nile: Wait, what are…are you saying he GAVE it to you? This is a LIFE CAST bronze? You KNEW Auguste Rodin? Booker: Probably BIBLICALLY, and in all likelihood, several TIMES. Andy: Asshole. Nile: Look at this stuff! Never mind the Rodin -- and that’s maybe a half-million bucks, easy just the money, I mean -- ALL this stuff! You have ANY idea what you HAVE here? Andy: What’re you, into antiques? Nile: I, uh…well, yeah, I was gonna go to school in ART HISTORY when I got out of the CORPS…that was the PLAN, I mean… Nicky: Joe? Joe: Nicky? Nicky: You okay? Joe: This is AMATEUR hour. You? Nicky: Same. I’ve been thinkning about Malta. Joe: Which time in Malta?… Oh. THAT time in Malta. Nicky: Yeah. We should go back. Joe: That’d be nice. Nicky: [sigh] Any idea what’s taking her so long? Andy: It’s not NORMALLY like this. Fuck THAT, it’s NEVER been like THIS. No, that’s NOT quite true. It’s just that, when the world was bigger, it was EASIER to avoid suspicion. You could MOVE ON when the WHISPERING started. When “You haven’t aged a day!” changed from compliment to observation to fear. The WORLD for a LOT fucking SMALLER. The WORLD also got a lot fucking FASTER. Copley: Ah. THAT would be HER. Wish I could say it’s been NICE knowing you, but it really HASN’T… Asshole. Nicky: Everything happens for a reason Boss… if a thousand years hasn’t taught me THAT then I’ve learned nothing. Andy: You get OLD, and you FORGET. We ALL do. EVERYONE does. Try to remember the FIRST time you fell in LOVE. I’m talking about the VERY first time, how it made you FEEL. The wy it made you CRAZY in the best way. How it made your whole WORLD change. How that person was EVERYTHING for you, and LITERALLY hurt to be APART. How it literally hurt to be TOGETHER. You CAN’T do it. You’re not even MY age, and you can’t do it. You THINK you can, sure, but you’re not FEELING it, not like then. You remember FEELING, but you don’t remember THE feeling. That’s GONE with TIME. Time takes EVERYTHING. Time ALWAYS wins. Time is a MOTHERFUCKER. Time takes EVERYTHING. Just not all at ONCE. from The Old Guard - Book One: Opening Fire (2017) by Greg Rucka (Whiteout) & Leandro Fernández (Northlanders). Eisner-winning writer GREG RUCKA (LAZARUS, BLACK MAGICK, Wonder Woman) and critically acclaimed artist LEANDRO Fernández (THE DISCIPLINE, Deadpool, Punisher: MAX) team up together to introduce THE OLD GUARD, the story of old soldiers who never die…and yet cannot seem to fade away. Trapped in an immortality without explanation, Andromache of Scythia - 'Andy' - and her comrades ply their trade for those who can find-and afford-their services. But in the 21st century, immortality is a hard secret to keep, and when you live long enough, you learn that there are many fates worse than death. Source: imagecomics.com Leandro Fernández is an Argentine comic book artist, known for his work on various Marvel, Image, and Vertigo comic book titles. Gregory Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American writer known for the series of novels starring his character Atticus Kodiak, the creator-owned comic book series Whiteout, Queen & Country, Stumptown and Lazarus, as well as lengthy runs on such titles as Detective Comics, Wonder Woman and Gotham Central for DC Comics, and Elektra, Wolverine and The Punisher for Marvel. He has written a substantial amount of supplemental material for a number of DC Comics' line-wide and inter-title crossovers, including "No Man's Land", "Infinite Crisis" and "New Krypton". Rucka made his debut as a screenwriter with the screenplay for the 2020 film The Old Guard, based on his comic book series of the same name. Source: Wikipedia

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:48 W x 72 H x 1.5 D in

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