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Ink Storm
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by Chris Ward and Michael Brandon. Edited and directed by Jake Deckard. Videography by Ben Leon. Music by J.D. Slater. Starring Logan McCree, Jake Deckard, Steve Cruz, Montaz Morgan, Ricky Sinz, Tamas Eszterhazy, Cory Koons, and Tober Brandt.
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"Logan McCree" is the strange new pseudonym of Philipp Tanzer, a model who has built a devoted following in Europe through club appearances and spreads in gay magazines such as Tętu. Making his American porn debut in Ink Storm, McCree/Tanzer is certain to raise the same question his French and German fans have been debating for some time -- is a person as lethally attractive as this German demigod enhanced or defaced when his hide is more busily adorned than Lydia the Tattooed Lady's? Tribal curlicues descend from the top of his head to his toes. Angel and butterfly wings spread over his arms, torso, and lower back. Between his shoulder blades lies a cross. A panther's head sets off each buttock. An arrow runs the length of his cock, stopping short of the head. A viewer's reactions to this panorama are a matter of taste. But whether you consider McCree's tattoos works of art or acts of vandalism, this major find is a versatile, passionate sexual performer whose presence is a gift to videography.

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I>Ink Storm also marks a promising first venture into directing by Raging Stallion's 2007 Man of the Year Jake Deckard (Mirage), himself the bearer of serious ink. He and McCree share a blistering reciprocal fuck in the fourth and possibly best of five scenes. McCree also appears in the opening sequence as the proprietor of a tattoo parlor, practically swallowing customer Steve Cruz whole. There's also an effective episode where tough-looking, ink-splotched Ricky Sinz tops Tamas Eszterhazy in a bar, and a somewhat self-consciously frisky encounter between hulking Tober Brandt, who shows off his pierced perineum, and Cory Koons. The most offbeat sequence -- one that will make some viewers hit fast-forward or skip ahead -- depicts a tattoo artist named Jamie (his shirt plugs Think Ink Tattoos) engraving tongue-of-fire patterns all over Montaz Morgan's penis. Morgan seems to be in a trance state during the excruciating procedure, whose completion he celebrates by jerking off.

Ink Storm comes with a bonus disc, Inkt Boyz, a compilation of ink-intensive scenes from previous Raging Stallion releases. In an excerpt from Pokin' in the Boys Room (2004), Montaz Morgan shows what his cock looked like before graphic designs went marching down the shaft.