This is a teaser image for my insanely huge work in progress, a ten-chapter retro science fiction comic book called "Empire State Patrol". In the story, six construction workers from 1930 find themselves in the far future world of 1990 - where the locals have the mistaken idea that they're all flying aces, and expect them to leap into rocket ships to defend the city of Nova York. It's built on the site of the old city of New York, where the only remaining monument of earlier days is the Empire State Building - where our boys used to work.

   The whole thing started in the summer of '99, when I was simultaneously reading old Buck Rogers comics from the 1930's, and looking at Lewis Wickes Hine's famous photographs of the workers at the Empire State Building site. I started to wonder what would happen if some of these guys were to find themselves adrift in the sort of Buck Rogers future they knew from their comics and pulp magazines. And now, a few years later, I'm working on a comic book project that will answer that question.

   It's a huge undertaking, even more so than I realized when I started. But my goal lately has been to find a way to spend most of my time on a project of my own, something that I think is interesting and, well, that just plain wants to exist. And this is the one I chose.

There will eventually be a web site for the series, but for now I'm putting minor teasers and updates in my commercial site on a single page of retro-futuristic comic book goodness.