Up Jib, Cap'n!

Special thanks to color assistant Amanie Alfatlawy.

Now we're firmly in the territory of two influences on this story.

First is a 1974 film starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee: Horror Express, which you can watch in its entirety on YouTube!

Another movie that inspired this story is Train to Busan.

I love a good siege story. One of my favorite films of all time is John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, in which a team of scientists are trapped in a church while the apocalypse unfolds around them. They're trapped, and no one can help them. They've got to rely on themselves and each other to survive the horror. This is probably why I enjoy Metroid games so much. In most of them Samus is navigating subterranean worlds facing all sorts of horrific monsters.

But there's something even more exciting about moving the siege story to a train. You're trapped but you're moving. It's claustrophobic but you're not entirely stuck. From a creator's standpoint it's a pain to stage and block, but the results are so fun.

Cap'n Lao and Ship's Cook Maggie now have to get to the front of the train through a host of angry mummies. Will they survive? What will they have to sacrifice in order to do so?

Merch updates!

I've started a TeePublic store to try out some Doctor Baer designs, and for now I've posted this one exclusively there:

Rick and the Skid Mercs don't have the strictest standards if you want to join their group. Just show up with some merch celebrating them, and you're in!

You can find this one and more designs over on TeePublic. And it's not just t-shirts. You can get stickers, pillows, and all sorts of things featuring characters from The Inscrutable Doctor Baer series.

If you haven't read the first story, The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue, you can purchase it here, or find it at your local library!

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