Judging by the art of this book (and seeing as how it is on this site), I am going to guess this is a cut throat military story aimed at hardcore military enthusiastic adults.
No holds barred. Nazi Zombies and Vaguely foreign terrorists team up. Blood, guts, sweat, and piss all go flying as rows and rows of men are cut down in glorious slow motion battle carnage.
But in the end a single man makes the difference. John Backoneday defeats Mecha-Hilter and Unpronounceable Terrorist by strangling them both with his own entrails. He comes back, the greatest hero that ever lived, but in a box.
The entire thing is written from his six year old daughter’s perspective. She is pretty dark, and needlessly graphic.
Well, at least it is a children’s book so the art, you know, sort of fits, even if it is awful.
I checked out the sample page–interior art is as artless as the cover, sad to say because the book’s mission is a good one (to help kids whose parents are deploying). The page I got “sampled” by Amazon was written to sound like a poem (rhymes and all!) but it was in a paragraph like prose. So I add this advice to struggling wannabe self-pubbers out there:
People, people, editors have uses–hire them! Same goes for artists. Hire them! And when cousin Fran says “hey this is great you should publish it,” please hear it as “hey this is great you should hire an editor and artist and publish it.” Give us freelancers a break…and more work! ;-P
This reminds me of those Bible story boards we had in Vacation Bible School when I was a kid in Alabama. You place felt pictures on a background of sky, sea, or land and could move them around on the surface to tell a story. “And then Moses walked across the Red Sea!” When someone died you just removed their felt piece.
Tia
10 years ago
I honestly thought the red things with the numbers on them were pay phone booths. *sigh* I’m still not completely sure what they are, but I’m fairly certain they aren’t floating phone booths. Buoys maybe. Yes, I’ll go with buoys.
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Judging by the art of this book (and seeing as how it is on this site), I am going to guess this is a cut throat military story aimed at hardcore military enthusiastic adults.
No holds barred. Nazi Zombies and Vaguely foreign terrorists team up. Blood, guts, sweat, and piss all go flying as rows and rows of men are cut down in glorious slow motion battle carnage.
But in the end a single man makes the difference. John Backoneday defeats Mecha-Hilter and Unpronounceable Terrorist by strangling them both with his own entrails. He comes back, the greatest hero that ever lived, but in a box.
The entire thing is written from his six year old daughter’s perspective. She is pretty dark, and needlessly graphic.
Waffles – I’d read that story.
“dark, and needlessly graphic.” – – – ::titter::
Well, at least it is a children’s book so the art, you know, sort of fits, even if it is awful.
I checked out the sample page–interior art is as artless as the cover, sad to say because the book’s mission is a good one (to help kids whose parents are deploying). The page I got “sampled” by Amazon was written to sound like a poem (rhymes and all!) but it was in a paragraph like prose. So I add this advice to struggling wannabe self-pubbers out there:
People, people, editors have uses–hire them! Same goes for artists. Hire them! And when cousin Fran says “hey this is great you should publish it,” please hear it as “hey this is great you should hire an editor and artist and publish it.” Give us freelancers a break…and more work! ;-P
Hear, hear!
This reminds me of those Bible story boards we had in Vacation Bible School when I was a kid in Alabama. You place felt pictures on a background of sky, sea, or land and could move them around on the surface to tell a story. “And then Moses walked across the Red Sea!” When someone died you just removed their felt piece.
I honestly thought the red things with the numbers on them were pay phone booths. *sigh* I’m still not completely sure what they are, but I’m fairly certain they aren’t floating phone booths. Buoys maybe. Yes, I’ll go with buoys.
Ha-ha! Floating phone boxes. That’s a good one!
Buoys. Yes, they’re buoys. Strange, rectagular buoys. Sad.