Goldfish Graveyard

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Quethethea - "He Who Jumps Between Worlds Like A Stone Skipping Water" - was a player character of course.

His progeny were a dynasty of dimensional travelling superheroes, most of whom were to put it mildly flaky.

By the great grandchildren generation, and post the War In Heaven, the kids are mostly violent champions of largely uninhabited parallel Earths where civilisation and in some cases humanity never took off.

Prisoner 58, better known as Epiyoth the Garbfighter, uses only the inbuilt claws and spikes on his armoured bodysuit and heavy cloak as his weapons. Garbfighting itself is unarmed combat combined with offensive armour.

Why Prisoner 58 came to be imprisoned in the now abandoned National Laboratory in Beaver City is a saga for another time.

The Seven Enemies: The Monster Kings, The Daemon Gods... Archons...

Kal Walterson has his work cut out for him.

Big time.

Goldfish Graveyard page 6 raw artwork part 1: Kal-66, Miradomon the Wizard Cat and the Seven Sided Cube

The artwork for Goldfish Graveyard features hand drawn panels rather than the pristine perfection of computer generation picture boxes. This is an absolutely deliberate decision to try and get a hand made feel to the book, as well as tip the hat to the role playing game that really encapsulated most of the story, across 34 years of novels, gamebooks and pamphlets of various kinds.

I feel strongly that something is being channelled in this book as well as the normal artistic process, so I am just going to continue to go with it. :)

Goldfish Graveyard page 2 final

After an eternity of false starts, the contemporary She-Devil and one of her team mates from the Guardians of Justice, Bishop Incognito of the Church of the Invisible Hand, stride the rooftops overlooking the International Emporium of Wonders in Gotham.

Gotham - ie pulp New York - was the original stomping grounds of the Guardians and continued to be their spiritual home through all the decades since.

This is the Eternium era team- a world very much like our own where the supervillains have comprehensively won- and are the political and social leaders of the civilised world.

She-Devil is an aerial acrobat and vigilante detective.

Her big secret is that, contrary to popular belief, she is not the great grand daughter of the original She-Devil from the 1920s and 1930s. It is the same person, granted immortality in Shamballah along with her husband the Shadow of Justice. Like all immortals who function in normal society, she has to replace her identity with that of her "daughter" at regular intervals. Most of the high level bad guys know her secret, but the general public do not.

Bishop Incognito leads a christian church as well as being a freedom fighter truther struggling to "awaken" the sleeping population. The rest of the team will emerge in due course, although anyone who bought my d20 rulebook GOLDEN will know the likely candidates... Likewise people who bought ETERNIUM will know exactly who is on the team.

Goldfish Graveyard in some respects is a typical monday-morning-in-the-comics-store adventure where new players would create their superheroes and through the day a tag team of player characters would start investigating Kal-66... IS HE FRIEND? OR FOE?

That kind of thing. :) Good times.

Goldfish Graveyard page 1 final

Goldfish Graveyard incorporates the unused film script of the same name, about a nebbish who ends up going on a quest to find a valuable goldfish, as well as various RPG and fiction work content of my own original work going back to 1979.

I am delighted to finally realise the work in a final form, albeit comicbook not film, tv or webisode.

So far... :)