written and illustrated by Iron Eater Read this piece’s entry on the Shousetsu Bang*Bang wiki. “This is where they keep the videos that kill you when you see ’em, right?” Beau craned his neck over the well-worn piece of A/V equipment he’d been working on all afternoon and furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. “What?” “You […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater Odd hunched in the shade of a twisty little mountain tree with an equally twisty hand-rolled cigarette, his clothes still dusty from the grave he’d started digging before sunup. Nobody out there worked in the noontime sun if they could help it. Something about the sun in the high […]

by Iron Eater Hawk had chosen his adult name when he’d inherited the fire and the tools to tend it. As he’d placed his first log on the glowing embers a hawk had flown up out of the forest like a piece of whirling ash, so that had been that. It fit him so well […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater It had first gotten complicated between Tjok and his imaginary friend well before they’d had too many shared birthdays. Imaginary friend wasn’t the actual name for what was going on, of course. That was just the closest thing any of the books he read or the video materials he watched […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater Guy—pronounced the French or maybe Indian way, ghee, hard G, short for Guillame, absolutely not a synonym for “some dude”—was the kind of person who just kept going once he’d spun up a proper rant, and Vien might’ve found it exhausting if he hadn’t usually been the one to […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater   ♠ 1 ♠ The sky boiled with storm clouds that had yet to split into full rainfall, their angry black and purple forms alive with crawling lightning, and both the wail of the wind and the thunder’s ever-rolling snarl echoed throughout the castle of the Dark King. Two […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater Lucky had been working at the grocery store for nearly five whole years before he finally got right with the Lord. That was the plan, anyway. God was everywhere, and so was the Holy Spirit and the little Baby Jesus, but it was easy to forget all that when […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater “So what are you in for?” Those words caught me by enough surprise I didn’t have an answer for them at first. That’s not like me; similar to anyone who thrives in a roleplaying environment, I’m well-tuned for improv, especially in the context of what the little character I […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater Any city of sufficient size was going to have its share of industry bars, and for working stiffs like Rosie who drove box trucks all day, their industry bar was Izzy’s. Rosie was too young to have known it at the height of its shittiness, back when more of […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater ❦ 1 ❦ The pursuit of medical science was an inglorious thing, dealing from challenges in all directions: to the layman, it was a morass of gore and suffering more akin to butcher’s work than healing; to the tradition-minded, it sneered at generations of curated knowledge in the name […]

written and illustrated by Iron Eater Afternoon sunlight streamed through the windows, thick and warm despite the early autumn’s chill, and as Jack’s favorite old record player scratched its way from song to song he knew he wanted to be nowhere else. He and Billy—and if there was one man in the world who needed […]