Balzac. The Main Man. He’s the guy who runs things at Area 51. Maybe he’s related to John Candy? This is not our concern. No, what should concern us is that he has access to Buck Rogers Ray guns and makes his residence in a life sized replica of the Kremlin.

You may ask yourself “What would Page 10 look like half finished?”

You may ask yourself “What would Page 10 look like half not done?”

You may ask yourself “Well, how did I get here?”

Then again you may not. But here it is anyway.

Take a gander at the very first pass at the layouts for the first 9 pages of the Eagleburger book. See, what happened was this. Jef, Rudy, and I all talked about the story at first. Then we outlined it all with super powered bullet points. We knew what we had to hit for each issue. Then, while Rudy and Jef got busy writing it with their own special crazy sauces, I tried my hand at laying it out. I did this to get a handle on the pacing, as well as give those two goons a sort of foundation for them to use as a rhythm (if they wanted, which as it turns out, they didn’t). I also wanted to cut up pictures of Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks and Max Von Sydow.

The actual layouts are now much different since Jef wrote the first scrīpt, but it’s fun to look back on this to see how it developed. I’ll be posting the REAL layouts at a later time. As long as the Masons don’t try to stop me.

Remember your Fight Club, skinny guys fight like Abraham Lincoln. And don’t let the shiny smile fool you, he’s seen stuff that would turn you white! (Winston Zedmoore’s line.)

This is the cover for #1. The background is a piece of wood I found that I completely covered with masking tape and then painted with red ink. Put a Photoshop gradient on top of that and thar’ she blows! There will be 5 covers in all (including the collection cover) and this is my plan. For each cover the Eagleburger face on the bottom will deteriorate more and more until finally he is nothing but a smoking skull on the cover of #4. For the collection cover, it will be all black with the 4 Eagleburger faces in a strip on the bottom. If it turns out right, it should look HOT!