I also have the book, and having seen The Killer and Desperado, I think I'm ready for some action.
It would be interesting to see how this works out on PBP. I haven't played before, even though I've amassed quite the collection of games in the last few years.
I think I'm going for the Maverick Cop as my first character -- a cop who believes in justice, but has little use for a system that he feels has lost its original focus of justice in a sea of bureaucracy, and that regularly lets the bad people off easy while the good people suffer or worse. I picture him as a lot like Dirty Harry, but with Spike Spiegel's brand of cool.