Filler: Dirty Laundry Part 1
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frustratedpilot"CONCEPTUAL NECROMANCY" (OR JUST "DIRTY LAUNDRY")
Part 1: The Concept With No Title
This is the first part of what I expect will be a pathetically long series in which I'll pull out some of my round-filed story ideas to show you. I've been a poser and a loser for longer than I care to admit...the world of comics has changed everything of itself since I started reading them. Back in the eighties and early nineties, I had been actively submitting--and brownnosing--with publishers big and small, and to this date I have gone exactly nowhere. So to start, I must start at the beginning.
I rarely read superhero comics as a kid...war comics were more my speed, as I was attracted more by hardware than by physique. I loved airplanes and fast cars, and my oldest surviving artwork (if you want to call it that--more like awful scribbles) reflects this fact. I still love airplanes, and hold a pilot's license in desperate need of a renewal. My very first concept comes from this era--in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Bicentennial...
It is a dire time for America. A war of insurrection has broken out in the Rust Belt, with militant gangs and rebel former National Guardsmen attempting to overthrow the establishment. The Federal forces are besieged on several fronts, with the heaviest fighting happening along the Ohio river valley.
The central character is a young, idealistic, and gifted fighter pilot flying for the Federal Air Forces in the Ohio theater. The airbase from which he operates has been cut off from the rest of the army by the fighting, and since the base is also home to both a stockpile of atomic warheads and an aircraft factory, the orders are to hold off the enemy at all costs. The war is steadily getting worse for the pilot and for the ground crew keeping his plane functional...and little by little he sees his squadron getting whittled down by combat losses. But he never gives up hope for an eventual victory.
I reused this concept in some measure in a short story/comic book one-shot called "Heat Seekers", which I submitted to Antarctic Press' "Mangazine" and saw rejected.
Part 1: The Concept With No Title
This is the first part of what I expect will be a pathetically long series in which I'll pull out some of my round-filed story ideas to show you. I've been a poser and a loser for longer than I care to admit...the world of comics has changed everything of itself since I started reading them. Back in the eighties and early nineties, I had been actively submitting--and brownnosing--with publishers big and small, and to this date I have gone exactly nowhere. So to start, I must start at the beginning.
I rarely read superhero comics as a kid...war comics were more my speed, as I was attracted more by hardware than by physique. I loved airplanes and fast cars, and my oldest surviving artwork (if you want to call it that--more like awful scribbles) reflects this fact. I still love airplanes, and hold a pilot's license in desperate need of a renewal. My very first concept comes from this era--in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Bicentennial...
It is a dire time for America. A war of insurrection has broken out in the Rust Belt, with militant gangs and rebel former National Guardsmen attempting to overthrow the establishment. The Federal forces are besieged on several fronts, with the heaviest fighting happening along the Ohio river valley.
The central character is a young, idealistic, and gifted fighter pilot flying for the Federal Air Forces in the Ohio theater. The airbase from which he operates has been cut off from the rest of the army by the fighting, and since the base is also home to both a stockpile of atomic warheads and an aircraft factory, the orders are to hold off the enemy at all costs. The war is steadily getting worse for the pilot and for the ground crew keeping his plane functional...and little by little he sees his squadron getting whittled down by combat losses. But he never gives up hope for an eventual victory.
I reused this concept in some measure in a short story/comic book one-shot called "Heat Seekers", which I submitted to Antarctic Press' "Mangazine" and saw rejected.
