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Who is Terry Miyamoto, and what is the story about that she stars in, called "10 Little Critters"?
(WWW Board February 2001) Terry appeared in Rowrbrazzle. I do hope to someday complete the story and have it printed somewhere. (WWW Board Aug 2000) "10 Little Critters" was a whodunnit story that was serialized in a funny animal "fanzine" called Rowrbrazzle. It was to be a 48 page story but only about 10 were completed and printed in 2 page installments. It was very loosely based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians. A group of journalists, among them Terry Miyamoto [whose picture appears in the Stan Sakai Dojo] FIXME Needs picture, who is a descendant of Miyamoto Usagi, are invited to spend the weekend on an island with the promise of a great story. They, of course, start dying off one by one and the evidence points to one of them as being the murderer. I think I worked on the story circa 1993-1996. It sounds like a long time but only 10 pages of the projected 48 page whodunnit were drawn. And the drawings themselves were very minimal -- no details and no dark blacks. It's roughly plotted out and maybe I'll finish it one day when I have the time [Terry Miyamoto also appeared as a reporter in the back-up "Lionheart: A Little Mobster Story", Story by Tom Stazer, Art by Stan Sakai, UY Vol 1, #23]. (WWW Board Apr 2000) "Ten Little Critters", the Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery, ran in a fan publication called Rowrbrazzle that I used to contribute to. The print run was about 60-70 xeroxed copies. The story was never finished though hopefully I'll get around to it one of these days and maybe serialize it in an anthology somewhere. (Amazing Heroes #187 Interview, January 1991 FIXME Broken link) Well for the past couple of years, I've been fiddling around with other stories that Usagi could possibly appear in, such as "Space Usagi", so I created a line of Usagi descendants, one of which is Terry Miyamoto, a 20th century descendant of Usagi who's an investigative reporter. I've been serializing one of her stories, "Ten Little Critters", in Rowrbrazzle, which is a funny-animal APA [Fanzine]. It's a whodunnit based on Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians". A bunch of reporters get summoned to an island and of course they are all dying off one by one. I intersperse clues throughout the entire story and by the end of the series if you're observant you should be able to logically deduce who the killer is. So I'm having fun with that (UY Vol 1, #31) "Ten Little Critters" will probably be printed someday. It's a whodunnit starring Terry Miyamoto, a descendant of Usagi's, who is an investigative reporter and has been appearing in a funny-animal apa, Rowrbrazzle, for the past year or so. Is the reporter at the press conference in Stan's "Lionheart" back-up story (UY Vol 1, #23) really Terry Miyamoto, one of Usagi's descendants?
(WWW Board, August 2000) Yes, that is Terry.  |
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