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JRAD's Mega Munny has a Jaws theme but no shark!

In honor of it being Munny Month, JRAD opted to customize a Mega Munny. And, I'll be honest, before reading his description I stared at it for quite a while and was unable to figure out what the design was. But his accompanying text did place the piece in context:
[…] having done a 3" dunny [and] 7" munny in similar fashion, I once again paid homage to one of my favorite films, JAWS. From the beginning of this project I had decided that I didn't want this one so "in your face." Just a very simple and subtle design. The main features being the yellow barrels, arm with tattoo and the lettering on the back of the head which is a reference to a line from JAWS in which the mayor says "AMITY as you know means friendship." Hoping some JAWS fans out there will get the reference!
Unfortunately, I didn't get the reference… though, in retrospect, it is a great bit of wordplay. And once I realized that this was a Jaws themed piece, a lot of the little details fell into place for me…
The tattooed arm is jarringly out of place amidst the sky and seascape, to the point of being distracting. And while the paint job is certainly solid, all those tiny bubbles look just like what you imaging an underwater scene to look like, I would've liked to have seen a little more subtle fade from the shallow waters of the head's bottom half to the deep waters of the body. But what I really needed to get this piece was the shark… and it wouldn't have to be obvious like on the movie poster, even just the shadow of one in the deeps; I think that might've gelled the whole more quickly in my mind.

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