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State Patrol
is a project I dreamed up in the summer of 1999, when I was looking
at two things simultaneously: one of those things was Lewis Wickes
Hine's famous photographs of the workers at the site of the Empire
State Building, 1929-1931. The other one was a collection of Buck
Rogers Sunday comics pages from the early 1930's.
It got me wondering about what would have
happened if a bunch of those same construction workers found themselves
in the middle of the sort of adventure they'd have known from their
comics and pulp magazines - and if all goes well, you'll have a
chance to find out.
Empire
State Patrol is intended to be a series of ten comic book chapters,
and it resembles the work you see in the 'Retropolis" side
of my online store. It's a mammoth undertaking. There is a huge
amount of pre-production work still to go - but one of these days,
when the first chapters are done, it'll be getting its very own
web site with previews of those pages, production notes, and maybe
even a blog.
Want
to see it? Buy something! Otherwise I'll be delivering pizza long
before it's ready!
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