Things are looking grim for the twins, Elijah and Malachi. If the tension is killing you, you can get a sneak peek below.
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The Specialists
A WWII superhero webcomic
Can’t wait to find out what happens to the two unfortunate brothers from our current page? You can see a sneak peek below!
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A while back, I mentioned that Al and I will be contributing to a project called Untold Stories from Iraq & Afghanistan, volume II from Heroes Fallen Studios. This is an anthology of stories told by Iraq and Afghanistan vets and adapted into comics by various artists. Heroes Fallen Studios is a non-profit organization that seeks “to provide Comfort, Guidance, Support & Assistance to the Heroes and members of our military and their families, both in time of war and in peace.”
We’re adapting a humorous anecdote from Letters from the Sandbox author Charles Meier about the unusually vicious Iraqi flies. Al is nearing completion on the artwork and the book will go to print later this year. Below are a few previews of the work in progress.
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m a huge nerd I like tabletop roleplaying games. One of my favorite games is Shadowrun. If J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and William Gibson’s Neuromancer had a baby, it would come out looking a lot like Shadowrun. It’s a blend of traditional fantasy and 1980s cyberpunk tropes.
So, for instance, you can play an elf sharpshooter with a gun that plugs into your brain. Or a troll mercenary with cybernetically enhanced reflexes. Or a street mage who can melt faces, astrally project, and summon powerful elementals. You might find yourself fighting against — or working for — monolithic corporations, organized crime families, or even ancient and mysterious dragons. If it all sounds a little ridiculous, well, maybe it is. But it’s also all kinds of awesome, and a ton of fun.
Shadowrun has been around for about 25 years on the tabletop, but there’s a new massively-multiplayer online game in the works and they’re seeking funding through Kickstarter. You can read a lot more (and watch videos of gameplay) over at the Shadowrun Online Kickstarter campaign. There’s only six days left as I write this, and they’re still quite a ways from their funding goal. So if you like the taste of fantasy in your sci-fi (or sci-fi in your fantasy), go check it out and consider backing it. Maybe we’ll meet each other online. I’ll be the troll with dermal plating and muscle grafts.
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I’ve been meaning to write about Jesse Owens since Henry mentioned him on page 79. With the Olympics in full swing in London right now, it seemed like a good time to finally get around to it.
The 1936 Summer Olympics were held in Germany. This was just three years before WWII started, and Hitler and the Nazi party were ascendant. The Nazis hoped that a strong showing at the Olympic Games would show the world the superiority of the Aryan race. And in fact, the Germans did win quite a few medals that year, but there was one decidedly non-Aryan blemish on their record.
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