I posted this over in off-topic a little while ago, because I had no idea there was a comics-specific forum here
Oh well, hopefully I can actually get some comic-minded people to see this now instead of being a tard and posting it elsewhere.

A 15-page preview can be seen here: http://www.heavy-weapon.com/

Plot Summary
Vietnam veteran, and former member of an elite Special Forces group, John Magnum, left the military due to the tragic loss of his entire battalion while under his command. Since then, he has been consumed with guilt over the deaths of his men. He just wants to live a normal life and forget his violent past. . .

. . .But now, his former Commanding Officer, Colonel Deckard, has tracked him down to inform him that a small group of POWs, captured during the war 10 years ago, have been found, and are being used as slave labor for a drug cartel in Costa Rica. Deckard asks Magnum to accompany him as an escort on a Top Secret mission to rescue the POWs, but Magnum refuses. . .it's not his battle anymore.

Only a few days later, Magnum is approached by his old friend Richter, the sole survivor of Magnum's lost battalion. Richter presents Magnum with a surprising video tape revealing that Deckard and his crew have been captured, and are being tortured then killed one-by-one at the hands of a ruthless drug lord. Before the tape ends, Colonel Deckard makes a plea for help from Magnum.

Magnum knows he can't let any more of his friends get killed and decides to go to Costa Rica to exact his revenge on everyone in his path on his mission to rescue Deckard, his team, and the POWs from the clutches of the heartless drug lord. . .

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If you'd like to preorder, just hang on a bit longer...I will be accepting preorders via Paypal soon.


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ABOUT THE BOOK:

I've been keeping details low outside of the artist and a short preview so as not to spoil anything, but I do have plans to fill out the book as much as possible. I'm trying to get some extra concept art from various artists, and such.

Here are my goals:

- Professional quality hardcover / softcover editions
- Full color cover / dust jacket in high gloss laminate on the HC versions
- Gloss enamel paper pages, if possible
- The book will be B&W (I wanted a full color rendition done, but that's really expensive).
- Art gallery and concept pages, possibly a 'behind the scenes documentary' of the comic/story process.
- Page format will be 8x10 for the hardcover/LE, and the mass run will be 8.5x11 probably.
- Estimating about 200 pages, possibly more depending on what I can cram in there. The story itself is 153 pages.
- Bonus Extras will be included with the Munition Edition, which will be limited to no more than 250 copies.

The reason I decided against full color is because each book will end up costing more than triple the price of B&W each to print (due to full color printing costs). If future/other prints happen, it'll likely be perfect-bound softcover only. I might have additional different covers for the first two runs, but alternate covers are more expensive and I hate passing my costs off onto buyers, so we'll see.


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Here's a sample of one of the nearly finished pages:




...and for comparison, this is the untouched "inked" page:




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Here's a prototype of the Munition Edition (subject to change, and probably will for the better):



- Ammo Box Packaging
- Character Trading Cards
- Challenge Coins
- Dog Tags
- USB Bullet w/ Digital Copy of Heavy Weapon
- Survival Knife & Chinese Dagge Bookmarks
- Hardcover Book

Items that may also be included, but not pictured:
- Poster
- Mini Book containing "Making of...", and more.