Awhile back I posted that one of my cyberpunk short stories got picked up by an anarchist fiction zine. I was excited because I had this related-but-sort-of-mutually-non-canonical photobash comic ready to go, about a stolen secret service protoptype and the endangered deer it thinks is the president. I don’t want to spam this community with my weekly updates, so I figured I’d just share the still panels, spaced out whenever I get to them in the posting schedule. They’re just quiet bits of art between the jokes.
There are a bunch of spots like this around my home towns. Not necessarily a business, not a house, just some kind of sandpit with an old workshop or metal building and some old vehicles in it. Probably if I really dug in to county records I’d find a registered business, likely defunct, in a local family name. Perhaps several. But usually they’re pretty quiet spots, at least until someone new buys them. I’d wanted to do the cyberpunk version of one of those.
(I’d like to extend a huge thanks to the ham radio community over on reddit, who were great sports about looking over an early draft of the building and the antennas, and who helped me with scale and even which antennas to include. The only one that came up as a possible issue was the discone on the back, and there was some debate on whether to scale it down to make it more ‘as expected’ or to leave it as an unusually large one, until someone settled it by mentioning that their mentor had had one about this size, which came from the Swedish military. I’m making a rural cyberpunk webcomic, so I will 100% include European military surplus equipment in the backgrounds if I get that opportunity.)
I’m sorry, I’ve not seen the film and though I read the wikipedia article I don’t get the reference. I used a quonset hut mostly because they’re a common, cheap metal building that used to be really common around here. As housing or workshop space they’re apparently really unpleasant, but you still see them a lot. Many of the comics and all the still panels are at least partially me trying to catch a specific kind of place/time of day/type of weather, from my hometowns, and filter it through the lens of cyberpunk, so this is mostly that.
It’s a joke referencing the movie which had weaponized deer. It was a bad movie but still good in a Napoleon Dynamite kind of way.
The yeast lords and yeast factories in Gentlemen Broncos is a reference to Asimov, Niven, and others who wrote about yeast as a primary food source in their various novels.
