Letters to Danger Trail #15

just fascinating so much going on, I of course love the Falkenstien bit Really, the plotline that had me the most hooked this time around was Eel and Rose. Those scenes were just wonderfuly done, and the prophecy at the end is super-creepy cool. Hammer was pretty awesome this time around too. Can't wait to see where all this is going to come to a head

Thanks for all the interest, people. Good to see I've got your attentions as things heat up in the Danger Trail for our heroes. There are big, big plans on the horizon, and I'm quite excited for them.

James, glad you enjoyed all the various twists and turns, and new characters. This was another of those new-character heavy issues, and it's always worrisome to dump a bunch of people on readers, especially on a series with rather obscure characters to begin with. As for Faraday, yeah, he's got several different forces focusing on him now, and his ride is going to be very choppy. As for Dr. Tock, I just had to play with steamtech some more, so here we go...Dr. Tock II, and thank you, Multiverse! Maybe somewhere along the way, a peek into this steamtech world is in order, what do you all think?

As for Mary, not just yet. She and the Dragon Queen have gotten plenty of exposure of late, and so she's going to lurk for a while. Andrew's immortal life isn't all about his ex and her current spouse, after all. Just feels that way.

Glad the prophecy came out as creepy as it was meant to. There's something just fun about the visual of talking skulls...heck, even Scooby-Doo knew that! Eel and Rose are just so, so much fun, for some bizarre reason. What will Richard have to say when the Doc O meets up with Rose's crew, though?

Susan, I had just so much fun with these normally well-dressed, immaculate men of action (tailored business suits and tuxedos being the normal attire after all, for Faraday and the King respectively) out on the beach picking shells. If you can't occasionally get absurd or surreal with these fellas, why bother, right? LOL

And Sun Koh does seem like Doc Savage, and why is that? Why because, he's the German Doc Savage! He's not an original character, but an actual German pulp hero from the Thirties (later Nazified by the Reich into a "true Aryan paragon"), and he was pretty much a visual "homage" to the Man of Bronze (though his history and raison d'etre for adventuring were very different). Jan Mayen, whom Sun refers to in the story, is another German pulp hero, who battled evil flying around in his atomic aircraft, and worked for Sun Koh from time to time.

While talking up obscure figures, Black Beauty and the Gimp are also actual comics characters. Black Beauty was a gangster villainess of Captain Marvel back in the day, having been widowed (or widowing herself, I forget for sure off-hand) and taking over her husband's gang. The Gimp was an old enemy of Fox Syndicate's The Eagle, and thus, even more obscure than Black Beauty. LOL

Great questions, thanks for the comments, and coming up next, the Blood of Templars, which leads into a crossover that will really have big revelations and major changes ahead for two groups of heroes!

Take care
Don

Another great job here. Though I have to admit that I'm REALLY intrigued by the Rose/Eel story. They make a great couple, by the way.

Hmmm...