Letter from long-lost pal, Chas. / Johnny Style

To: doug@dsquared.org
Subject: Re: Action Geek & dsquared.org NEWS!
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 15:13:01 -0500

Hey Dougzig,
How's trix? I was jus' looking over your wares. I remember that my brother
Mike & I speculated that you'd become a media mogul with such broadcast
outlets as Doug-o-Vision Doug-per-view & Doug-by surround sound, but we
failed to anticipate the interdoug.

You like words? take a look over here if you've a mind to.

-Chas. (a.k.a. Johnny Style)

Cover to Top Ten #10 Girl One dives to save her fellow officer The sad truth is learned. Girl One is dead. Smax asks permission facetiously to kick some ass.

Gene Ha, artist of Top Ten answers my fan letter... Dear Doug, You wouldn't believe how rarely I get questions like this. I enjoy discussing my book's plot. I knew Girl One was going to die for most of the series. It was a bit difficult. I have too vivid an imagination sometimes. The script specifically said she had been fatally disembowelled. I did research into disturbing photos of murder victims. If I know a picture is real, it's all the more disturbing. I tried to make the injury realistic, but I also tried to not fixate the composition on the spilled intestines. And both my wife and I miss Girl One. But knowing Mr. Moore could do anything is part of why I like working with him. It wouldn't be any fun if I knew Alan was scared to kill or hurt a character. Oh, just checked out your site. Very cool! I love the drawings. I've bookmarked it to read it later. And I'm stealing your idea of using a sig file with my website. Gene. (Doug's letter to Gene Ha) - Visitor's name: Doug Chapel - Email address: doug@dsquared.org - Mr. Ha... - Top Ten #10 was one of the MOST moving comic book stories I've ever read. It might even surpass the Daredevil #181 issue where Bullseye kills Elektra. - My question... was it tough for you to do the artwork on a comic where such a cool and relatively undeveloped character such as Li was going to be killed? Or did you just view it as a job to get done. I guess I'm curious moreover by how much you get emotionally involved in doing comics... - Good work. I'm hooked on Top Ten. - Doug Check out Gene Ha's website or Check out Wildstorm's website PLEASE buy a copy of TOP TEN yourself. I scanned and posted these pages WITHOUT permission just to show you how cool and deep TOP TEN is... ask for it by name at your local comic book shop.