book two : dead city radio
Produced 2005.08.31 - ?, 46 pages as of 2010.08.30
Hallucinating social engineers, ghost ninjas from outer space, past life aggression, UFOs.... and that's just the first chapter!
Dead City Radio will eventually detail several of the events that lead up to The Dualist. Until those bits start to unfold, however, there's very little tying DCR into the world of Among The Chosen beyond my sayso, so be patient.
DCR is published sporadically in "draft" format as a comic strip at the dead city radio website. When chapters are completed, the strips will be cleaned up, collected into pages, and posted here in complete chunks - meaning this section of the site will update quarterly at best and annually at worst.
chapter one : whitehouse
Produced 2005.08.31 - 2007.09.24 , 29 pages (28 actual).
Rewritten 2010.01 - 2010.02
Collects Dead City Radio #001 through #122, excepting a lot of the Static and Squelch strips that were displayed when the comic wasn't updating.
Major Changes from Strip Format : The Whitehouse comic differs from the Whitehouse strips in a few key ways. Copyrights have been de-violated (removal of several band logos, etc), the apartment complex doors have been edited for accuracy (peephole, knocker, evacuation diagram), and most importantly, the font has been changed from Digital Strip to the font used in The Dualist. As with the cleanup run on The Dualist, dialogue in Whitehouse has been tweaked in a few places and flat out replaced in others. The result is a "strip collection" that reads like the comic that it actually is.
20080419 : DCR.1 has been cropped from the original 6x8.33 aspect ratio to the industry standard 6x9, which took a lot less time than the dualist did.
chapter two : the operative
Produced 2008.05.02 - 2010.08.30, presently 17 pages.
The Operative is currently limited production It was in production for part of 2008, on hiatus for all of 2009, and is now, finally, back on deck. New strips will manifest on the DCR website, and will then be 'stacked' into pages here.
As of July 2010, the objective is to finish The Operative during Q3/Q4 2010 and to start the third chapter (tentatively titled Leitmotif) in Q4 2010 or Q1 2011.