YOU'LL TRY TO DIS. TAKE A CRACK AT THIS.

So the question invariably comes up with new projects about characters that have never appeared in comics before, "What's it about?"

In the old days, and by that I mean about four years ago, I would answer this question with an half-hour dissertation about the origins of the concept, my motivations for approaching it in this particular way, the running tropes in mainstream comics that influence this treatment of ....

Wait. Where are you going?

See? Nobody wants to hear that crap. When people ask you what something is about they are really asking you one of three questions. Sometimes all of them at once.

1) "Is it good?"

2) "Will I like it?"

3) "What's the story?" Or, more precisely, "Is your story similar to stories I already know and already like?"

Well, in the interest of brevity, I will take these questions in order and hope that, until next week at least, you can walk away with a better appreciation for what The Red Line is attempting to do.

Just let me roll up my sleeves here. Crack the knuckles. Okay? Good. Now then.

1) "Yes."

2) "Yes." Or, more precisely, "Yes."

3) If you mix this:



with this:




and this:



you get this:




Boom, baby.