The old entertainment institutions are corroded and rotten. If there’s any philosophy to it, it’s to eschew propagandist inclinations, and most importantly, to not ask permission to create. I went with “Iron Age” off the top of my head during my video entitled “Don’t Cry About the Culture, BECOME The Culture”, and the public seemed to latch on to it. New creators are launching new projects, it’s clearly here. It’s not ideologically aligned, and it isn’t a “club”… it’s a simple observation of fact: Something is in the air, whether it’s Ethan Van Sciver’s continued success with “Cyberfrog”, Eric July’s mind-blowing success story “Isom”, the launch of “Anvil: The Iron Age Magazine”, or a half-dozen others. RazörFist: The “Iron Age” is simply a name I gave to this zeitgeist of explosive independent media creation we’re presently experiencing. How does this new venture fit in with your “Iron Age” philosophy of independent media? Time to do something about that.Ĭhris: Agreed, but I think they’re mounting a comeback. Plus, I’d just published a novel, so why not switch gears until the next one? Besides, the Western genre looks a bit lightweight on the comic front at present. I suppose the primary reason we made a comic instead of a pulp is that it’s the medium George is most familiar with. But then my other career took off, and so I stopped. It’s something I’d wanted to do from about age 8, so I submitted packages to Marvel and DC, had a couple of short comics published, at very little pay, etc. Tell me a little bit about your history with comicbooks and why did you decided to approach this story via comics? Though we are discussing alternate posters by a few outside artists I respect, as stretch goals!Ĭhris: Backers do like to hit those stretch goals. When George expressed an interest, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to hammer out an outline and script. ![]() Primarily because I hadn’t yet decided whether to write it as a Pulp Novel (as with my prior Nightvale novels)) or make a comic. The synopsis for Ghost of the Badlands was one I dreamed up a long time ago, but outside of a short description and a few character sketches, I hadn’t yet proceeded fleshing it out. RazörFist: George and I were both bitten by the Western bug around the same time, and we’d just finished working together anyways (he provided the SUPERB interior art from my Fantasy Noir pulp novella ‘Death Mask’). The phantom spares the life of one such bandit, and through this fallen creature’s eyes, in one last grab for redemption, we slowly unravel the mystery of what locals are already calling “The Ghost of the Badlands”.Ĭhris: How did this project come to be? What was its genesis? A masked missionary of death, wielding a mechanical weapon of the Old World, begins dispensing Old Testament justice to the wicked. And yet, as his paid brigands roam the badlands, something else stalks their steps. But someone bankrolls him from the shadows. RazörFist: In the lawless, real-life railroad boomtown of Canyon Diablo, Arizona in 1896, a profligate Mayor attempts to bring order and profit with an iron fist, even to the point of hired banditry. On April 9th, an unknown Redditor posted a version of the meme to /r/memes, gathering over 31,000 likes in a similar timeframe (seen below, right).Chris: Hit me with your elevator pitch for Ghost of the Badlands, and share a bit about the genesis of this tale, and who it’s aimed at. On April 8th, 2021, Redditor Sergeant_Smile posted a version of the meme to /r/teenagers, gathering over 17,000 upvotes in over a year (seen below, left). ![]() On March 28th, Redditor deathstar10154 then posted an edit to /r/PrequelMemes that gathered over 11,000 upvotes in a similar timeframe (seen below, right). The format continued to spread in consecutive months, with Redditor Fleykel posting an edit to /r/ gaming on March 26th, 2022, gathering over 400 upvotes in roughly a year (seen below, left). The meme was also edited and uploaded to Imgur that same day. The image was first edited and reposted to Reddit on March 25th by Redditor This-Wrongdoer-1858 to /r/dankmemes, where it gathered over 63,000 upvotes in over a year (seen below). The strip was also posted to Instagram, by the cartoonist, where it gathered over 24,000 likes in a similar timeframe. On March 4th, 2021, artist MadeByTio posted an original comic to the subreddit /r/funny depicting two ads beating up an ad blocker, gathering over 5,000 upvotes in over a year (seen below).
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