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Swipe File: Last Resort And The Silent Service

Last Resort is the next planned TV series from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan. It's a thriller "set in the near future when the country is very fractured and revolves around the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted after ignoring an order to shoot nuclear missiles. They escape to a NATO listening outpost where they publicly declare themselves to be the world's smallest nuclear nation with 24 nuclear warheads. The show explores the society the fugitives create, the natives they meet and how what they've done affects the group and its unity."

The Silent Service was an award winning manga series by Kaiji Kawaguchi, creator of Eagle, serialised from 1988 to 1996. It then became an anime TV movie ad continuing series, some episodes of were translated and released in the USA. It is a thriller set during the cold war aboard the nuclear submarine jointly developed by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the United States Navy. During its first mission, the submarine's captain declare it an independent state, named Yamato.

So even if there is no causal connection, if Last Resort is a hit, expect the rest of The Silent Service to be translated and published in the USA…

In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, jokes, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself. If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website.

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