Link here:
https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/ BEST SHORT STORY “Friendship Is Forever,” by Sam Maggs and Keisha Okafor, in My Little Pony 40th Celebration (IDW)
“The Kelpie,” by Becky Cloonan, in Four Gathered on Christmas Eve (Dark Horse)
“The Lady of the Lake,” by Joe S. Farrar and Guilherme Grandizolli, in BUMP: A Horror Anthology #3 (BUMP)
“Talking to a Hill,” by Larry Hancock and Michael Cherkas, in Comics for Ukraine (Zoop)
“World’s Finest, Part 1,” by Tom King and Belen Ortega, in Wonder Woman #3 (DC)
BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT Horologist, by Jared Lee and Cross (Grim Film)
Nightwing #105, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)
Star Trek: Day of Blood—Shax’s Best Day, by Ryan North and Derek Charm (IDW)
Superman 2023 Annual, by Joshua Williamson and others (DC)
Sweet Paprika: Black, White, & Pink, by Mirka Andolfo and others (Image)
BEST CONTINUING SERIES Birds of Prey, by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Basto Romero (DC)
Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
Shazam! by Mark Waid and Dan Mora (DC)
Transformers, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)
Wonder Woman, by Tom King and Daniel Sampere (DC)
BEST LIMITED SERIES The Cull, by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis (Image)
Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons, by Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda (IDW)
Kill Your Darlings, by Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, and Robert Quinn (Image)
PeePee PooPoo, by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
Superman: Lost, by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan (DC)
BEST NEW SERIES Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, by Patrick Horvath (IDW)
shincoal you did it! haha.
Black Cloak, by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren (Image)
Local Man, by Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs (Image)
Phantom Road, by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernández Walta (Image)
Somna: A Bedtime Story, by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed, by Chelsea M. Campbell and Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
Burt the Beetle Lives Here! by Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
Go-Go Guys, by Rowboat Watkins (Chronicle Books)
The Light Inside, by Dan Misdea (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
Milk and Mocha: Our Little Happiness, by Melani Sie (Andrews McMeel)
Tacos Today: El Toro & Friends, by Raúl the Third (HarperCollins/Versify)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS Buzzing, by Samuel Sattin and Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink)
Mabuhay!, by Zachary Sterling (Scholastic Graphix)
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, by Pedro Martín (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers)
Missing You, by Phellip Willian and Melissa Garabeli. translation by Fabio Ramos (Oni Press)
Saving Sunshine, by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan (First Second/Macmillan)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS Blackward, by Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly)
Danger and Other Unknown Risks, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
Frontera, by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo (HarperAlley)
Lights, by Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story, by Sarah Myer (First Second/Macmillan)
My Girlfriend’s Child, vol. 1, by Mamoru Aoi, translation by Hana Allen (Seven Seas)
BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone, by Alex Norris (Candlewick/Walker Books)
I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, and Other Musical Meanderings, by Keith Knight (Keith Knight Press)
It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1, by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru (Marvel)
Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave, by Liniers (Fantagraphics)
The Yakuza’s Bias, by Teki Yatsuda. translation by Max Greenway (Kodansha)
BEST ANTHOLOGY Comics for Ukraine, edited by Scott Dunbier (Zoop)
Deep Cuts, by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Danilo Beyruth, and others (Image)
The Devil’s Cut, edited by Will Dennis (DSTLRY)
Marvel Age #1000, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel)
The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics, edited by The Kao, Min Christensen, and David Daneman (Andrews McMeel)
Swan Songs by W. Maxwell Prince and others (Image)
BEST REALITY-BASED WORK Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? by Chris Oliveros (Drawn & Quarterly)
Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century, by Adrian Matejka and Youssef Daoudi (Liveright)
Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali, by Marc Bernardin and Ron Salas (First Second/Macmillan)
Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, by Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Wise (Island Press)
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, by Bill Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)
BEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, by Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan)
A First Time for Everything, by Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan)
In Limbo, by Deb JJ Lee (First Second/Macmillan)
Memento Mori, by Tiitu Takalo, translation by Maria Schroderus (Oni Press)
Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic Graphix)
The Talk, by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW Ashes, by Álvaro Ortiz, translation by Eva Ibarzabal (Top Shelf/IDW)
Eden II, by K. Wroten (Fantagraphics)
A Guest in the House, by Emily Carroll (First Second/Macmillan)
Parasocial, by Alex De Campi and Erica Henderson (Image)
Roaming, by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—REPRINT Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise Treasury Edition, by Tradd Moore (Marvel)
The Good Asian, by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)
Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus, by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
Orange Complete Series Box Set, by Ichigo Takano, translation by Amber Tamosaitis (Seven Seas)
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott (DC)
BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM Bea Wolf, adapted by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet (First Second/Macmillan)
DRCL midnight children, vol. 1, based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, by Shin’ichi Sakamoto, translation by Caleb Cook (VIZ Media)
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow over Innsmouth, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translation by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)
The Monkey King: The Complete Odyssey, adapted by Chaiko, translation by Dan Christensen (Magnetic)
Watership Down, by Richard Adams, adapted by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin (Ten Speed Graphic)
BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL Ashes, by Álvaro Ortiz, translation by Eva Ibarzabal (Top Shelf/IDW)
Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)
A Boy Named Rose, by Gaëlle Geniller, translation by Fabrice Sapolsky (Fairsquare Comics)
The Great Beyond, by Léa Murawiec, translation by Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly)
Shubeik Lubeik, by Deena Mohamed (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)
Spa, by Erik Svetoft, translation by Melissa Bowers (Fantagraphics)
BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL—ASIA DRCL midnight children, vol. 1, based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, by Shin’ichi Sakamoto, translation by Caleb Cook (VIZ Media)
Goodbye, Eri, by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translation by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
The Horizon, vol. 1, by JH, translation by ULTRAMEDIA Co. Ltd. (Yen/Ize Press)
My Picture Diary, by Fujiwara Maki, translation by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)
River’s Edge, by Kyoko Okazaki, translation by Alexa Frank (Kodansha)
The Summer Hikaru Died, vol. 1, by Mokumokuren, translation by Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)
BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—STRIPS Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comic Strips, edited by Peter Maresca and Trina Robbins (Sunday Press/Fantagraphics)
David Wright’s Carol Day: Lance Hallam, edited by Roger Clark, Chris Killackey, and Guy Mills (Slingsby Bros, Ink!)
Popeye Sundays Vol 3: The Sea Hag and Alice the Goon, by E.C. Segar, edited by Conrad Groth and Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1935-1939: Starring Donald Duck and Big Bad Wolf, edited by David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)
Where I’m Coming From, by Barbara Brandon-Croft, edited by Peggy Burns and Tracy Hurren (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—COMIC BOOKS Adventures Into Terror: The Atlas Comics Library, vol. 1, edited by Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics)
All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition, edited by Chris Robinson (Very GOOD Books)
The Ballad of Halo Jones Full Colour Omnibus, by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, edited by Olivia Hicks (2000AD/Rebellion)
The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle, edited by Michael Dean (Fantagraphics)
Michael Golden’s Marvel Stories Artist’s Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
BEST WRITER Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers (IDW)
Mariko Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Taylor, Nightwing, Titans (DC)
Kelly Thompson, Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, Black White and Redder (DC); Black Cloak, The Cull (Image); It’s Jeff, Captain Marvel (Marvel)
Mark Waid, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam!, World’s Finest: Teen Titans (DC)
G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy (DC); Hunger and the Dusk (IDW)
BEST WRITEARTIST Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Image Skybound)
Mokumokuren, The Summer Hikaru Died, vol. 1 (Yen Press)
Zoe Thorogood, Hack/Slash: Back To School (Image)
Tillie Walden, Clementine Book Two (Image Skybound)
BEST PENCILLEINKER OR PENCILLEINKER TEAM Jason Shawn Alexander, Detective Comics (DC); Killadelphia, with Germán Erramouspe (Image)
Tula Lotay, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett)
Inaki Miranda, Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons (IDW)
Dan Mora, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam! (DC)
Chris Samnee, Fire Power (Image Skybound)
Jillian Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST PAINTEMULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART) Jason Shawn Alexander, Blacula: Return of the King (Zombie Love Studios)
Chaiko, The Monkey King (Magnetic)
Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2 (Europe Comics)
Liam Sharp, Nocterra: Nemesis Special (Best Jackett); Starhenge: The Dragon and the Boar (Image)
Martin Simmonds, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound)
Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)
BEST COVER ARTIST Jen Bartel, DC Pride 2023, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1 (DC); Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest #1, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin #1, Scarlet Witch #9, Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel)
Evan Cagle, Detective Comics (DC)
Jenny Frison, Alice Never After #1, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1, and other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1–2, Poison Ivy #8, #12 (DC)
E. M. Gist, Expanse Dragon Tooth #1, Something Is Killing the Children #28 & #34, Wild’s End, vol 2 #4 and other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Amazing Spider-Man #23, Doctor Aphra #36, Moon Knight #3, Nightcrawlers #1, Wolverine #38 (Marvel)
Peach Momoko, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, various alternate covers (Marvel)
Dan Mora, Coda #3, Damn Them All #4, MMPR 30th Anniversary Special #1, Rare Flavours #3 and other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Outsiders #1, Poison Ivy #9, Shazam!, Titans #1 (DC)
BEST COLORING Jordie Bellaire, Batman, Birds of Prey (DC); Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special (IDW)
Matt Hollingsworth, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Punisher (Marvel)
Lee Loughridge, Red Zone (AWA); Edgeworld, Grammaton Punch, Nostalgia (Comixology Originals); The Devil’s Cut, Gone, Somna (DSTLRY); Star Trek (IDW); Killadelphia (Image); Hunt. Kill. Repeat. (Mad Cave)
Dave McCaig, The Sacrificers (Image), The Walking Dead Deluxe (Image Skybound)
Dean White, Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
BEST LETTERING Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
Benoit Dehan and Lauren Bowes, Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Comics)
Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals, and others (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy, and others (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? (Image); and others
Richard Starkings, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder, Canary (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett); Parliament of Rooks (Comixology); Astro City, Battle Chasers (Image); Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
Rus Wooton, Monstress, The Sacrificers (Image); Fire Power, Kroma, Transformers, The Walking Dead Deluxe, Universal Monsters: Dracula, Void Rivals (Image Skybound); Hunt. Kill. Repeat., A Legacy of Violence, Nature’s Labyrinth (Mad Cave)
BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL/JOURNALISM The Comics Journal #309; edited by Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti, and Austin English (Fantagraphics)
“The Indirect Market,” by Brandon Schatz and Danica LeBlanc, comicsbeat.com
Rob Salkowitz, for Forbes, ICv2.com, Publishers Weekly
SKTCHD, by David Harper,
www.sktchd.com SOLRAD: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics,
www.solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)
BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK Bryan Talbot: Father of the British Graphic Novel, by J. D. Harlock and Bryan Talbot (Brainstorm Studios)
Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography, by Dave Gibbons (Dark Horse)
Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy, edited by Nicki Michaels, Ted Richards, and Mark Burstein (Fantagraphics)
I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, by Michael Molcher (Rebellion)
The Pacific Comics Companion, by Stephan Friedt and Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
BEST ACADEMIC/SCHOLARLY WORK Asian Political Cartoons, by John A. Lent (University Press of Mississippi)
The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X- Men, by J. Andrew Deman (University of Texas Press)
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted (Rutgers University Press)
If Shehrazad Drew: Critical Writings on Arab Comics, by George Khoury-Jad (Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies and American University of Beirut Press)
In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, by Margaret Galvan (University of Minnesota Press)
Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact, by Jeffrey A. Brown (University of Texas Press)
BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein boxed set, designed by Mike Kennedy (Magnetic)
Gratuitous Ninja, by Ronald Wimberly, designed by Chloe Scheffe (Beehive Books)
Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes, designed by Benoit Dahan andDonna Askem (Titan Comics)
Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind, designed by Josh Bernstein and Rob Schwager (Z2)
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun First Stall Box Set, designed by Wendy Chan (Yen Press)
BEST WEBCOMIC Asturias: The Origin of a Flag, by Javi de Castro,
https://www.javidecastro.com/asturias-the-origin-of-a-flag Daughter of a Thousand Faces, by Vel (Velinxi),
https://tapas.io/series/daughter-of-a-thousand-faces/info (Tapas)
Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe,
https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/s3-episode-226/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=231 (WEBTOON)
Matchmaker, vol. 6, by Cam Marshall at
https://matchmakercomic.com/. (Silver Sprocket)
3rd Voice, by Evan Dahm,
https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/3rd-voice/list?title_no=828919 (WEBTOON)
Unfamiliar, by Haley Newsome:
https://tapas.io/series/unfamiliainfo (Tapas)
BEST DIGITAL COMIC Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2. by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)
Friday, by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)
Parliament of Rooks, by Abigail Jill Harding (Comixology Originals)
Practical Defense Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)
A Witch’s Guide to Burning, by Aminder Dhaliwal (Instagram.com/aminder_d)
estou a procura de um omnibus para conhecer algo novo e legal. Não tenho tempo pra ficar caçando saga por saga, quero uma coletânea, uma história que se feche em si sem precisar de muitos volumes, um livro gigante desses que parece um tijolo mesmo, uma bíblia de gutenberg com o selo da marvel.
dicas?
(Nearly a month ago I made
this post asking for case suggestions from my international readers since I focus on International cases and I recently was given one which I looked into and saw very few mentions of it online outside of Portuguese Wikipedia, digital newspaper archives and a single forum post. So I decided to take the case on. Oh and that Wikipedia article, about a good portion of it or so also talks about another bombing case that is likely unrelated.)
Credit to
Royal_Catch7060 for telling me about this case.
And if any native Brazilians or even just Portuguese speakers in general are able to better navigate
memoria.bn.gov.br than me and can find more information please let me know, For all I know this case may be solved after all and the information is just buried deep. Happened to me before.)
At 9:45 pm on August 12, 1985, over 2000 people were dancing or socializing at the Mesquita Tênis Club in Nova Iguaçu, located in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro State. The dancing was briefly interrupted by the sound of an explosion from the inside of the club near the stage, no panic broke out avoiding a stampede. There was, however, still a fatality. Elsewhere in the club was the body of a man, his arm had been torn off, his face heavily disfigured, part of his dental arch blasted a great distance away from his body and bits of his brain matter were blown up into and stuck to the ceiling. The blast also injured 15-year-old Claudete Oliveira da Silva, 19-year-old Cláudio Wilson Batista, and 17-year-old Luiz Antônio Oliveira da Silva.
The deceased was identified as a 23-year-old machinist and former goalkeeper named Otacílio Alexandrino Pinheiro, a regular at the club and well-known by the other attendees and staff. Tragically, when his brother was called and informed of the incident, he was in the hospital already as his father had suffered a severe heart attack. Otacílio was standing with a group of friends when the explosion went off, blinding one of them.
While Claudete was recovering in the hospital, she was questioned by police who told them that before the explosion, a man handed Otacílio a handheld radio described as sophisticated and of "foreign origin" and that he brought it to his ear and turned the dial to try and change the channel, the radio exploded once the dial was turned killing him instantly. She described the man who gave him the radio as a middle-aged, short, white male with a mustache, dressed in blue jeans and a checkered shirt and that Otacílio seemed to be friendly with him. Claudete also said that she saw other people witness this and try to chase after the man after the explosion but he managed to escape in the crowd. The bombing led to Otacílio's family protesting outside the club and blaming the lax security for his death as the guards were very selective in who they decided to check and screen.
Eventually, the police made an arrest, Nielsen Barros Louzada, a radio operator for The Civil Police and the son of a former deputy and owner of The Mesquita Football Club, Nielsen Louzada (his middle name isn't stated so they appear to have the same name). They later arrested another man, a painter named Edson dos Santos as Nielsen's accomplice. The police believed that the motive was a rivalry between the two clubs and even went so far as to accuse Otacílio being involved and that he was to place the bomb into the club's sound system but accidentally set it off prematurely. Nielsen's father also came to his defence accusing the police of being corrupt, trying to force him and Edson to confess and stating how none of the witnesses who supposedly got a clear look at the man identified him as Nielsen. He may not have been wrong to think so as the lead detective in this case was dismissed for corruption and gambling-related offenses.
On January 5, 1986, while Nielsen and Edson were on trial at The 4th Criminal Court of Nova Iguaçu, more than three thousand people were attending a concert by Tony Tornado at the Mesquita Football Club. At 10:20 p.m., a homemade bomb went off injuring 8 people including a child and triggering a stampede and panicked rush toward the exits. The injured consisted of Hernandes Freitas Soares, 25 years old, Marita Rodrugies Heriger, 17 years old, Adriana Xavier, Campos, 16 years old, Simone Machado Loureiro, 15 years old, Ana Claudia Costa Silva, 17 years old, Dejair Soares, 18 years old, Jorge Luis Csota Dias, 6 years old, and his uncle Didimo Rodrigues. Lastly during the stampede, 25-year-old João Luis dos Reis was trampled over resulting in minor injuries.
Five minutes after the explosion, three military police units on patrol in the area went past the club and saw that something was happening calling for backup and having the injured sent to two separate hospitals.
Investigators faced massive pushback in their investigation as the club wanted to keep the show going at all costs ordering clubgoers to stop fleeing and continue dancing to the music. They unsuccessfully attempted to dispose of any evidence clearing away fragments of metal and cardboard as well as screws and a possible detonator believed to be from the explosive device. They even went so far as to try to deny police entry into the club. One of the injured,
Hernandes Freitas Soares was an off-duty police officer. When he showed his ID, the two security guards attacked him and threw him out onto the sidewalk saying "The place to die is on the street."
The police believed that both bombings were linked but not because they were both committed by the same man. They proceeded with their club rivalry theory and that it could've been retaliation to the bombing of the Mesquita Tênis Club. Both victim and suspect denied this theory and stated that now the two of them were scared of future attacks and the owner Nielsen Louzada publically stated that the same man must've been responsible for both attacks. Nonetheless, the police remained steadfast in their theory so they did not re-examine the case and criminal proceedings continued against Nielsen and Edson
On October 5, 1986, at a movie theatre in Iguatemi Shopping Mall, 300 people were in the cinema watching "O Homem da Capa Preta". At 6:20 pm, a bomb placed under a seat in the fifth row on the right side suddenly went off injuring 17-year-old Alexandra Sabone Massa, 25-year-old Solange Vicente da Silva and 17-year-old Norma Sueli Ventura Santiago. Norma and Alexandra were severely injured as they had been pelted with shrapnel and even nails which had been packed into the device. They required surgery and even skin grafts.
The theatre room was calmy evacuated while showings in the other cinemas continued uninterrupted.
The police arrived and recovered the fragments of the device and determined it to be low-powered and a timed device. Although the contents are unknown, there may have been a warning since the management was called from an unknown number. According to other theatregoers, the sound of the explosion was "muffled and muted" Property damage was surprisingly minimal as the seat directly above the bomb was mostly infact. Underneath the seat, investigators found a note written in "maritime signal code" which when translated, read as follows
"This is for you, club directors, to learn not to play only hot music. You also have to remember that slow songs exist. If my demands are not met, the games will continue until you change your mind. This is only the third game. They will continue until you meet my demands, and no security will stop me because I am capable of passing through walls without anyone seeing me. I just want equal time for slow music and not rock. NL"
The injured and witnesses could not give any descriptions and just like with the Mesquita Football Club, police were being met with silence as the manager would not show up to the theatre during investigations and were directly told by his employees that he was avoiding police and the press so he wouldn't have to make any statements. Some even causally dismissed the incident as a prank that had simply gotten people injured by mistake.
The media, however, upon hearing of the note ran with the story that a serial bomber was on the loose motivated purely by his personal music taste. And about that serial bomber "This is only the third game" Police went through other bombing cases and revisted the Mesquita Tênis Club and Mesquita Football Club bombings, both devices were similarly manufactured and used black powder and the initials Nielsen Louzada did match their one suspect, even if he was incarcerated at the time of the other two bombings and Nielsen said his name was planted by his father's politcal enemies. After the news broke, the owner of Mesquita Tênis Club and another club named "Lojas Americanas" came forward saying that in June 1986, they were both given notes written in signals as well. After translating them, the notes that gave the names Paulo Roberto Nunes and Washington Tavares Filho as the sender and the same address contained threats directed toward both clubs for playing rock music. The names were of course false but now there was a connection and Nielsen and Edson were both quietly released.
As a direct response to this bombing, Brazilian Police launched "Operation Macumba" to try and put an end to the sale and manufacture of "tula" and other types of gunpowder used in the bomb or at least severely limit it. On October 8, the police seized approximately 10 kilograms and 450 grams of gunpowder, packaged in 209 cartridges. On October 9th that number had jumped to over 1,021 cartridges with 40 grams of gunpowder each with 8 stores raided. Despite this crackdown, no leads to the identity of the bomber could be uncovered.
The fourth and final confirmed attack would occur on June 29, 1987, at 4:50 pm, the Casas Sendas supermarket was crowded with hundreds of customers
when a bag left behind at the customer reception desk suddenly exploded. The explosion started a small fire and led to immense panic with many running, stampeding and others fainting with some thinking the entire building was on the verge of collapse. 20-year-old employee Marinaldo de Sousa Santos, who handled the packages was left with first, second, and third-degree burns and had to undergo several major surgeries. Marinaldo's co-worker, 17-year-old Osvaldo Luís Pereira and Marieta Moreira de Sousa were also injured. At the time of the explosion, few people were in the reception area which saved many lives.
Investigators at the scene collected two small batteries, pieces of wire, a talcum powder can lid, and other materials they believed that the person responsible was knowledgeable in explosives. The subsequent fire was deemed unintentional as discarded nearby to the explosion happened to be a plastic bottle containing flammable alcohol that the person dropping off the explosive package was likely unaware of. The decive again operated based on a timer, was homemade and the composition was highly similar to the last three attacks leading police to link this to the two clubs and the theatre bombing. Police arrested several people with explosive-related criminal records but none of these leads panned out.
Due to always striking in Nova Iguaçu, he was referred to as "Terrorista de Nova Iguaçu".
There was another bomber on the loose around the same time referred to as "The North Zone Maniac" who in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro set off 12 bombs from 1987-1988, mostly in the suburbs but also at a supermarket and a train station The police arrested Elourdes Mendes de Israel as a suspect in "The North Zone Maniac" case but the evidence against him was flimsy and he professed his innocence. Although some think that "Terrorista de Nova Iguaçu" and "The North Zone Maniac" are one and the same, the two have never been conclusively linked and both struck in different locations and had a different choice of targets. Due to the lacklustre evidence and a lack of any updates on Elourdes and his trial, it is presumed that "The North Zone Maniac" has also likely never been caught.
Sources https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&Pesq=%22autor%20das%20explos%c3%b5es%22&pagfis=180889 https://memoria.bn.gov.bdocreadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pagfis=180922 https://memoria.bn.gov.bdocreadeDocReader.aspx?bib=112518_05&pagfis=30796 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22mesquita%20futebol%20clube%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=159698 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22solange%20vicente%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=179909 https://memoria.bn.gov.bdocreadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pagfis=179930 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=100439_12&pesq=%22mendes%20de%20israel%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=71629 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=112518_05&Pesq=%22otacilio%20alexandrino%22&pagfis=30870 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22mesquita%20tenis%20clube%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=158056 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=112518_05&pesq=%22mesquita%20futebol%20clube%22&pasta=ano%20198&pagfis=33753 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22toni%20tornado%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=159661 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=100439_12&pesq=%22cinema%20center%20i%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=57822 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=154083_04&pesq=%22bomba%20no%20sendas%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=30001 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22supermercado%20sendas%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=203996 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=100439_12&pesq=%22supermercado%20sendas%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=65167 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&pesq=%22bomba%20no%20cinema%20center%20i%22&pasta=ano%20198&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=180063 https://memoria.bn.gov.bDocReadeDocReader.aspx?bib=030015_10&Pesq=%22bomba%20no%20cinema%20center%20i%22&pagfis=180137 Bem, como é dito no título, sofro dessas 2 coisas a bastante tempo. Sinto que todas minhas relações, sejam com colegas de trabalho ou com mulheres que me sinto atraído tem se tornado bastante superficial. E eu realmente não sei como melhorar isso.
Passei por muita coisa para chegar nesse nível. Tive péssimos relacionamentos (que por sinal, o relacionamento que mais durou foi de 5 meses e mesmo assim me consumiu completamente), me afastei dos meus dois unicos amigos e melhores amigos por questões de ignorância da minha própria cabeça, apesar de continuar acreditando q foi melhor assim, tentei conhecer mulheres diferentes, não dei certo com nenhuma. Conheci pessoas diferentes e adivinha? Relações completamente superficiais que se resumem a: "Bom dia!", "Choveu muito né?", "Semana cansativa né?", "Como foi seu final de semana? -Dificil", "Vc viu oq aconteceu com o RS? Muito triste" e etc. Bem, assunto até tem, porém parece q nada se encaixa. Parece q vivo a maior parte da minha vida em lugares em q eu n me encaixo. Não tenho vontade de conhecer ou dar seguimento nas conversas que eu tenho com as pessoas. Todos parecem desinteressantes e talvez eu seja seletivo demais, mas me parece q os outros pensam o mesmo sobre mim. Minha maior conversa foi recente, com um colega da facul, ele contou como era o trabalho dele, bem superficialmente e eu comentei sobre uma intriga q tinha acontecido na empresa onde trabalho, após isso, fomos para sala, sentamos um perto do outro para fazer uma atividade, não conversamos, dei boa noite e fui embora. É meio triste pq, eu passo dias sem falar com ninguém e quando eu falo, parece q não valeu de nada. Tenho vivido minha vida completamente no automático desde então. Acordo, dou bom dia para minha mãe e pai, chego no trabalho, fico mexendo no celular esperando os clientes chegarem, converso com algumas pessoas, ao terminar o expediente, vou direto para a faculdade, morto de sono, mais conversas superficiais (quando tem, pois o colega q eu mais sou chegado, o citado anteriormente só tem aula comigo 1 dia na semana) e bem, vou para casa e ciclo vicioso infernal se repete até o fim de semana, que são os 2 dias onde eu durmo, jogo alguns jogos, brinco com meu cachorro e fico triste ao chegar no domingo.
Sabe, as vezes eu tento colocar na minha cabeça que tudo isso é temporário, e eu sei q é, mas eu vejo outras pessoas da minha idade (21 anos), tendo a mesma rotina que eu, mas com uma vida feliz. Não posso dizer q minha vida é triste, pois conquistei e estou conquistando muitas coisas. Comprei meu PC, avaliado em 13k, consegui uma cama de casal pra mim, estou juntando dinheiro para comprar um bom ar-condicionado nesse calor dos infernos de Recife, ano passado comprei uma bicicleta para n pegar mais ônibus e tenho uma boa relação com os meus país. Também sou eu quem pago minha faculdade e ajudo meus pais na feira mensal. Meus proximos objetivos são encontrar um bom estágio para finalmente sair do meu emprego atual, arrumar um cantinho só pra mim e seguir minha vida. Uma meta q talvez seja comprida em alguns anos. Mas oq mais me afeta é minha aparência e minha vida social. Não tenho redes sociais (odeio e só uso o reddit pq n preciso mostrar o rosto ou postar foto), n acho q tenho chances de conhecer uma garota que tenha sentimentos recíprocos a mim e amizades, leva muito tempo e esforço para se obter, n acho q tendo uma rotina estressante como a minha, com os objetivos q tenho, eu teria tempo para cultivar isso.
Peço desculpas pelo texto enorme, mas é um desabafo sincero kkkk.
Bem, pra finalizar, acho q é importante contar sobre minha última relação "amorosa" não recíproca. Eu entrei neste emprego ano passado, naquele tempo, eu tinha acabado de me afastar de meus amigos e estava um pouco carente, n irei negar, mas desafetuoso ainda assim, conheci meus colegas de trabalho e uns 3 meses depois, comecei a gostar de uma colega de trabalho. Eu era maluco por ela, acho q ela tinha tantos pontos atraentes que eu simplesmente ignorei os negativos. Ela é linda, ao meu gosto. Branquinha, corpo esbelto, cabelos loiros e cacheados, muito atenciosa e feminina. Acredito q seja o sonho de consumo de todo homem. Alguém havia me falado que ela namorava, mas eu n quis acreditar. Estava completamente apaixonado, porém com essa dúvida se ela realmente namorava, nunca cheguei a chamar ela para sair e por ignorância, sempre tenteu esconder o fato de gostar dela, apesar de ser evidente. Comprei Brownies para ela, tentei ajudar ela no trabalho, sempre tentando me aproximar e por minha culpa, fui cultivando um amor platônico por ela, porém a realidade veio á tona quando pela primeira vez, em 6 meses, ela comentou sobre o namorado. Ouvir aquilo me fez me sentir mal, triste e frustrado, mas acabei aceitando com o tempo. Mas eu era obcecado por ela. Salvava fotos dela apenas para ficar admirando, gostava de falar o nome dela na minha cabeça e criar histórias sobre o nosso futuro juntos (sim, muito amorzinho de adolescente carente) e até desenhei ela. Acho q tudo isso acabou influenciando a minha falta de vontade em conhecer novas garotas e ter algum sentimento por elas. Pois n é a primeira vez q tenho sentimentos por uma garota e acabo descobrindo q ela é comprometida ou q ela simplesmente n gosta de mim.
Na faculdade agora, tento me abster disso, mas é inegável que uma boa mulher na vida de um homem, faz total diferença e eu sinto falta disso. Mesmo sabendo q só talvez n seja pra mim. Acho q tenho q amadurecer bastante e adquirir recursos kk. Mas conta aí vc q teve a paciência para ler tudo isso. Oq eu faço? Como eu melhoro isso em mim?