Mills Bombs & BOOM!In the twenties I bought a couple of Gold Eagle paperbacks I found cheap. The first was about Phoenix Force, and a page-turner, if obviously written to a formula. The seconds was about SLAM, and so crappy I thought even I could write a better book than that... so why not? Kestrel Paperbacks will be approximately 150 pages of rapidly-churned out crap, with a lot of violence, and settings that are likely to beget a lot of violence (World War 2, Westerns, Covert ops and the like). I'll probably do a mixture of series stories and one-offs. If a story isn't long enough I'll simply add extra gratuitous violence until it is! It is likely the cover art will take me longer to make than the stories.
Starring Burt Sawston, who I created for a TRPG to play with kids (we did 1 and a half sessions before it was abandoned). He'll be a drifter in the old west, going from town to town and blowing badmen away. It will not be "revisionist" in the slightest.
Set in the 1980's. The "final episode" of this will be a story in the Red, White & Blue. But how do we get to the final episode? Through violent, trashy paperbacks! This is a team of homeless veterans who are re-recruited and given SAS training, to be sent on deniable missions. You might think this is going to be the sort of thing where they get sent to kill some peacable Native American elder who is blocking an oil pipeline, and rebel against their masters... but nah, they're going to be going to blowing away tons of Argies in Tierra Del Fuego during the Falklands, and stuff like that.
Operation Excalibur is a fictional proto-Commandos set up by the Royal Marines in 1941 (the real Commandos started in 1942) to spread teror through occupied Europe. Will feature constant ironic references to the "master race", because the ironic use of that phrase in a WW2-themed Doom Wad got Doomworld's collective knickers in a twist a while back.
I started to make this as a comic ages ago, but had no idea what to do with it. I decided to mix it with the, er, "plots" used in the original The Gun (which were more like covert ops stories anyway) to create a glorious mix of hyper-violence and horrible biological experiments gone wrong. |
