Salutations street-toughs,
Last week, we premiered “Eternal Vengeance”, which marks the 12th short comic in as many months! I want to take a moment to bask in that — we successfully started, completed and published a short comic every month for an entire year. That’s a labor that would make even Hercules blush.
I’m extremely proud of this accomplishment. When you’re in the trenches with your art it can be hard to see the clear wins, and even harder to celebrate them, so I’m using this moment to take inventory and flex a bit.
Of course, I would not be able to be a bona fide Comic Book Writer without a talented team of artists. I stand on the shoulders of giants and can’t deny it. I thank them all for their talent, creativity, affability, patience and professionalism. (Even the one who blocked me on socials!)
Publishing this anthology was a lofty goal that has been in the works for nearly a decade. It’s incredible seeing my ideas in “print”, and if all goes well over the next few months, you’ll have an opportunity to see it in real-life print soon.
And of course, a big, BIG thank you 🙏 to the readers, likers, commenters and sharers out there. I’m so humbled by the support; the audience makes it all worth it!
Anyway, on to “Eternal Vengeance”, a tale of time and justice.
Justice is something we all understand but struggle to collectively define. It’s a feeling, a state of being that society strives towards and has developed systems to achieve as best as we can in this messy, unfair world.
A lot of Westerns zero in on the concept of justice and revenge as a focal point. Whether it be drifter, gunman, law officer or townsperson, it’s pretty typical for a character to have unresolved beef with another character, and to seek a way to rectify that wrong, sometimes within the bureaucratic system, but typically outside of it.
Whereas “Taking a Life” follows the tack of intense anger as the impetus for revenge, “Eternal Vengeance” (with art and letters by Diego Guerra) slants in a different direction. What happens when the aggrieved is no longer fueled by fiery emotions? Time may heal wounds but does it balance karma?
This story sprints at a slightly different speed than others in the genre but hopefully provides a fresh POV of one of the lynchpins of Western fiction. We hope you enjoy it!
Westward!
~Jamil