Thanks! I'm super excited about it!

Nope. Self-publishing, unless you got some kind of hook up. :)

Did it actually get published?

Wow, man.

I remember you telling me about this 2 years ago, and now to see it come into fruition.......this is REALLY cool. The artwork looks amazing, dude. You pretty much have my readership.

Thanks for the kind words, all. It's going to be coming out this summer. Jeik slammed out the rest of the art so we could slap together the French edition for a con he's going to in Canada (where he lives) in a couple weeks, but the English version is going to have some art tweaks plus pretty extensive background material written by me. The website should be up in a month or two. I'm still deciding if we're gonna sell physical copies from day one or put it online for a bit first or what, but one way or another you'll be able to read the English edition this summer.

P.S. The Soviets aren't the bad guys, they're just giving the LRRA aid so they will destabilize the US further, much like the US has supported fucked up local regimes in various third world countries in order to destabilize their neighbors.

karaokeninja said:

Did it actually get published?

Last I heard they went to a convention to get it sold or to have some people to look at it, this was about a month ago or so.

karaokeninja said:

so we could slap together the French edition for a con he's going to in Canada (where he lives)

It's sort of like if the "zoot suit riots" had actually become a popular separatist uprising, due to external influence and support.

Sure, you want to work on it Sunday maybe?

Squirrel said:

karaokeninja said:

so we could slap together the French edition for a con he's going to in Canada (where he lives)

Thanks I missed that when I was skim reading the older posts.

Assuming I don't get super ill or something Sunday should be cool, RB. Thanks, Dreg! And Blank_Kold, we'll definitely have posters available when we launch the book.

Well it's definitely gonna be available to read online for free... for a while. Not sure if it will be kept online permanently?

Thanks very much! I have you in the thanks to section of the book, too. :)

Good news about the sales!

I'm looking forward to seeing if anyone gets on our case about the war-nerd stuff. (I did realize afterwards that the Mexican Invasion we created was basically the Korean War only in California instead of the Korean peninsula.)

haha, where are they doing this? Twitter? (Has anyone mentioned Dorvack yet?)

Color me interested Karaoke. I will be buying a copy when it comes in English :D

Thanks! I'll keep you in the loop, folks. The website should be launching in a month or two.

Thanks, TheMarkSewell! I'll keep you all updated!

P.S. I'm up to page eighteen in my script for a new GGR-related... thing.

Here's a little preview from a short Golden Gate Riot side story that is going to be in the back of the comic when it comes out. As usual, it's written by me, drawn by Jeik Dion.

Jeik just did a bunch of research and made up his own tank based on various tanks he thought were cool. We may do more tank crap later but whatever, he did fine without me telling him what to do. :)

He gave us 0% shit for that design. He said, "I saw that sample page you posted...very cool. I also like the tank design. I'm a big tank geek, so that especially appeals to me."

Go ahead and complain?

Ooo! Oo! Can I guess what the complaints will be?
1) The coaxially mounted guns in the turret are too big and unecessary and would take up too much internal space in the turret.
2) The bottom of the front hull should just be smooth armor plate. I'm guessing the phrase "shot trap" will be used. : )

Nice art once again. That's really cool you guys are already doing side stories for this.

Okay, to start out with, I think the drawing looks great and there's nothing that says "oh god this is horribly wrong and you will be embarrassed to print it". I mean, the tank *is* shooting a guy in a robot suit so clearly this is not the same world we're used to. And it's not like there haven't been completely-weird armored vehicle designs before.

Anyway; yeah the front is kind of bad, and so are the turret sides (it looks like the artist was inspired by the British "Crusader" and "Churchill" tanks.)

As shaloop says, the side guns are weird. They're too big to be machine guns or light cannon, too short to be useful anti-tank guns, and too small to be howitzers. Generally, if you have more than one of the same kind of gun you're using them for antiaircraft fire (where you need to put a whole shitload of bullets into the air really fast), but those are also usually machine guns (which have narrower barrels than you've shown.) If you're shooting at things on the ground, having more guns usually just means you run out of bullets that much faster. Sometimes armored vehicles have a howitzer (fires a large explosive shell at low velocity, used for demolition or city-fighting) instead of an anti-tank gun, but that would be a bigger diameter than depicted (it would be about the same size as the tank gun.) Here's an example: Sturmpanzer. However, you generally wouldn't combine both that and an anti-tank function (long gun) in one vehicle because then you have to carry two different types of ammunition.

Having one of them on either side of the big gun means your loader is going to have a tough time getting to the main gun, although if you're using an autoloader that's less of a problem (although autoloaders have their own issues with mechanical complexity.)

The whole front of the turret is guns; where does the gunner sit so he can see out?

In fact, it would be annoying to try and aim those; do they converge at some point or do they just shoot straight? What happens if a target is only in line with one gun; what's the use of the other one? Also, you now have to align and boresight (line up the gunsights) for three guns, instead of only two. Sure, you could say 'well this gun is just to cause general destruction' but that's what artillery barrages are for.

There have been multi-turret, multi-gun designs before (the American M3 Grant/Lee type) but they weren't particularly successful, because the small gun was too big to be a good anti-infantry or anti-aircraft weapon, but too small to be useful against armored vehicles.

And, like I said, it's not so much "can't work" as "badly designed", and if it's supposed to be Soviet-type stuff they're legendary for making bad design choices (not that American stuff doesn't have bad design either.) Incidentally, Soviet tanks use an autoloader, so packing three guns side-by-side is more likely to work in their design.