Below are annotations for “Untitled (Ma Brave Boys)” 8 pages in Cinema Purgatorio #8.
Writer: Max Brooks, Artist: Gabriel Andrade, Cover Artist: Michael DiPascale
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General: Pickett’s troops lose their advance battle with the giant ant army.
This is the first installment of A More Perfect Union drawn by Gabriel Andrade. An early unpublished version of this issue was drawn by German Ponce.
Cover
- This depicts the scene from P7,p5.
Page 1
panel 4 (center)
- This is George Edward Pickett (1825-1875) who first appeared in CP#3.
Page 2
panel 4
- The bearded soldier appears to be James Calvin Zimmerman, who first appeared in CP#1.
Page 3
panel 1
- Left to right are Thaddeus Lowe and Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who were introduced in issue #2 P4,p1.
panel 2
- Left to right are Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart.
Page 4
panel 2
- coming soon
Page 5
panel 3
- Pickett orders an “oblique“: a maneuver where an army focuses its strength on one edge.
Page 6
panel 2
- coming soon
Page 7
- Above is the unpublished German Ponce artwork for page 7. Read more about Ponce’s unpublished AMPU work.
Page 8
panel 1
- The general looking downward appears to be Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the dead general whose image first appears on P2 of CP#1.
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