Shanghai Red's about Red, who was shanghaied.

[thanekos]

She was two years in service on a ship.

At the end of them, she killed the ship's crew.

Revealing herself to her fellow impressed, she took charge, turning the ship back the way it'd come.

She kept herself distant, down with the rats.

One of the others, Boston, reached out to her- he'd seen the look in her eyes before.

" 9th Cavalry. Fought the Crow up in Montana. Lot of worse things too. "

" Except you were a soldier. Following orders. "

" That makes it a little worse, don't it? "





(The comparative softening of the colors here's nice.)



(Motion lines that look like pencil streaks. That's something.)



(Nice detail in the last panel, the way the river's reflecting the moon.)



(They knew her as Jack for those two years.)



The next morning, the others were let off.



They looked out on Portland.



She disembarked.



(Pagecount's 9 of 28 from last month's #1.

Art and colors're Joshua Hixson. Writing's Christopher Sebela and letters're Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.)

Comments

[icon_uk]

The art is lovely.

Is there a definite date for this story? I don't know enough about the history to know when Portland became big, but given the most up to date technology is a bicycle, I'm guessing late 19th early 20th century?

[thanekos]

Late 19th, yeah - per Sebela, it's in the late 1800s.

[crabby_lioness]

Very nice.