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Get Pre-Murkoff Coyle out of my J.C Leyendecker study bro 🙏🙏😭

Close up of the face and ver without the kids below. Aswell as the original peice.

what if coyle could actually cook and hosted a cookout then everyone had a fun jolly time with the power of friendship

ok here’s a drawing dump featuring coyle………. he’s got the aura of a booger

we will let you our our

Uhhhh just learned today that according to Liliya’s character designer she just has her boobs out…

IDK I DONT LIKE THIS? LIKE MY VISCERAL REACTION IS NEGATIVE.

It makes so much more sense to be wearing a chest piece of some kind rather than painting her bare chest metallic.

I've got to say 30s/40s Blackwell was not at all what I was expecting. I knew their industry was built mostly around oil and agriculture, and I hadn't really given much thought to what people did for fun outside of going to the movies or picnicking in the park. I suppose in my ignorance, I was expecting... well, rural stereotypes. After all, that's what the game keeps trying to have us believe about Coyle.

But guys. Blackwell had speedboats. And multiple nearby water parks. That's just wild to me.

I'm not going to post a bunch of pictures, because I want people to go and watch the video for themselves, but here are some things that stood out as important

Blackwell PD and fire department still share the same building in the present day, though city hall has moved to premises on the opposite side of the road. I don't want to post a bunch of Google Maps screenshots, but I wholeheartedly recommend taking a virtual wander around the buildings exterior to get a feel for the place

So just looking at those uniforms shows that Coyle would not have been wearing the black, military inspired police uniform we see him wearing in his comic appearances. Even in the 30s/40s they'd moved onto wearing shirts and ties.

This image depicts the founding lineup of the Blackwell Police Department in 1923, and as you can see, even then, they weren't wearing military-inspired uniforms. I haven't been able to find anything similar to what Coyle wears throughout the BPD's history. But what is cool to note is that they've always had a motorcycle, so that's fun. Nothing relevant there, I just thought I'd mention it because I've seen people draw Coyle as a motorcycle cop, and it's completely plausible that he was!

One thing that sticks out to me, is how tiny the BPD force is? In the 1930s census, 9,521 people were living in Blackwell, but fewer than 10 police officers by the look of it. Coyle must feel downright spoiled in his trial environments, having such a big precinct and so many staff on hand, useless as they are, standing around like a bunch of mannequins.

Though truth be told, I would have expected Coyle to be freaking out at the amount of female police officer mannequins in his trials. I've no idea when women were first initiated into the BPD, I can't find any information on it, but the first women to join the Oklahoma City police force did so in August 1955. Coyle was scooped up by Murkoff post-February 1956, so he would know about "lady policemen", but I can't for one second imagine him approving of the concept.

Comic Coyle and the New Mexico State Police uniform that they slapped onto him for reference.

I expected Blackwell look a lot more rural, I think my perception of architecture is kind of warped because walkable cities are a pipe dream now that it’s assumed everyone owns a car 😍 one more lane!!! 🇺🇸 I live in a more rural area built much much later and everything is very spread out from eachother.

The town he grew up in really goes to show just how privileged he is.

I think it’s interesting that the fire department and police department shared the same building. His second wife’s family died “mysteriously” in an electrical fire. I almost wonder if Coyle stalled the fire department in some way? I mean surely people noticed pretty quickly that a house was burning? Idk he also might have just picked up some tricks on starting a fire and getting away with it from them.

I didn’t know anyone else had an issue with the uniform shown in the comics lol. When I was looking at references for time accurate police uniforms on Pinterest I noticed that most of them didn’t really reflect the comics.

Speaking of the comics I feel like nobody ever mentions the comic shown in his possession.